Smack vs yaxim

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Smack		yaxim
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,366	Stars	484
0.1%	Growth	0.2%
7.9	Activity	0.0
2 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Smack

Posts with mentions or reviews of Smack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.

No XEP-0333 Chat Markers in XMMPP Openfire backend - how did you solve it?
1 project | /r/xmpp | 9 Feb 2023

Is this really impossible without Chat Markers? Do you suggest we switch the server stack to something else? eg. Smack seems to have some support
Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2022

https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/blob/master/smack-xm...
I don't see any opportunity not to block when calling "next"

yaxim

Posts with mentions or reviews of yaxim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-07.

Beware of using Whatsapp to send messages with people inside Iran. Signal, Element or Session have higher security.
1 project | /r/NewIran | 21 May 2023

XMPP messengers (e.g. yaxim are distributed along lots of servers, so there's one entity who can decrypt your data. However, encryption takes a few extra steps (unlike Signal, which is automatic). Most people don't use XMPP apps, so it won't serve to contact most people.
How to easily get a vaccine for the newly eligible.
2 projects | /r/boston | 7 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Smack and yaxim you can also consider the following projects:

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android

Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service

Nakadi - A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues

androidpn - An open source project to provide push notification support for Android -- a xmpp based notification server and a client tool kit.

Apache Camel - Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations]

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

vaccineCheck - MA Vaccine data poll and push via XMPP