Android and XMPP: Currently available solutions

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alkar picture alkar · Jan 22, 2011 · Viewed 95.3k times · Source

Which XMPP library would be the best choice nowadays for Android development?

  • I've been using the patched Smack library as is suggested in many other questions here in SO. However, that's a patched version of the Smack API from two years ago. And although it generally works well I'm exploring any other, more recent options.

  • I've been looking at the official Smack API and after a little research, it seems it might work just fine nowadays (although I have not tried it yet in a real application).

  • There's also another solution I came across, Beem's aSMACK library. Beem is a fairly new XMPP client for android and from what I understand they are using their own patched version of aSMACK.

  • Finally, there's aSMACK but that too hasn't been updated for quite some time (as the site suggests).

Do you have any other suggestions or can you explain why I should choose one of the above over the rest?

Answer

Flow picture Flow · Mar 30, 2011

Smack

Smack is a open-source XMPP client library. Since version 4.1 it runs natively on Android. For more information have a look at the "Smack 4.3 Readme" and see the Smack project page at Ignite Realtime.

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