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| Kontalk | Xabber | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 567 | 1,809 | |
| 0.2% | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Kontalk
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XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
Yes, Quicky from the Conversations developer who bragged about copying main features of WhatsApp and Signal.
Another one is Kontalk, https://www.kontalk.org/.
Both XMPP clients require a phone number, and both present the phone number as a benefit in comparison with other XMPP clients without this requirement.
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Has anyone used kontalk before?
It doesn't support OMEMO (the Signal-based end-to-end encryption protocol used by most XMPP apps today) (kontalk/androidclient#132)
Xabber
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XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
Depending on when you last tried xmpp you might have experienced the OTR hell, which was never really codified 100% and spawned subtle incompatibilities between clients leading to weird and nondescript errors that never got addressed. Nowadays the popular clients support omemo (https://conversations.im/omemo/), which makes encryption just work™ out of the box and without hassle. The only exception to this is xabber, who are apparently afraid of law enforcement destroying their lifes should they implement proper encryption and also feel no need to support it anyways: https://github.com/redsolution/xabber-android/issues/540
What are some alternatives?
Converse.js - Web-based XMPP/Jabber chat client written in JavaScript
Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android
Candy - JavaScript-based multi-user chat client for XMPP.
Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
JSXC - :speech_balloon: Real-time xmpp chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication.
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
Kaiwa - [UNMAINTAINED] A modern XMPP Web client
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+
Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations]
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
Openfire - An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
androidpn - An open source project to provide push notification support for Android -- a xmpp based notification server and a client tool kit.