What is the difference between Smack and aSmack?

SPB picture SPB · Oct 14, 2010 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I am not able to use Smack on Android whereas aSmack works perfectly? When compared the source code it looks somewhat similar, where does the difference comes from?

What is the difference between Smack and aSmack?

Answer

Flow picture Flow · Mar 22, 2013

Smack < 4.1 does not work on Android, mostly because of APIs missing on Android (e.g. most of the javax APIs). That is the reason the aSmack build environment was born. It is a way to modify Smack so that it can be used on Android.

Besides many minor changes the biggest changes are

  1. Disabling XMPP SASL auth methods that are not supported on Android
  2. Using apache harmony for SASL instead of the javax API

Make sure to read the README and and init the relevant code before doing any XMPP related actions.

More information can be found @ https://github.com/Flowdalic/asmack/wiki/Modifications