Conversations Classic Encrypted Messaging app for Android description
Easy to use, reliable, battery friendly. With built-in support for images, group chats and e2e encryption.
Design principles:
- Be as beautiful and easy to use as possible without sacrificing security or privacy
- Rely on existing, well established protocols
- Do not require a Google Account or specifically Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
- Require as few permissions as possible
Features:
- End-to-end encryption with either OMEMO or OpenPGP
- Sending and receiving images
- Encrypted audio and video calls (DTLS-SRTP) with DTMF dialpad
- Intuitive UI that follows Android Design guidelines
- Pictures / Avatars for your Contacts
- Syncs with desktop client
- Conferences (with support for bookmarks)
- Address book integration
- Multiple accounts / unified inbox
- Builtin image editor
- Very low impact on battery life
XMPP Features:
Conversations Classic works with every XMPP server out there. However XMPP is an extensible protocol. These extensions are standardized as well in so called XEP’s. Conversations Classic supports a couple of those to make the overall user experience better. There is a chance that your current XMPP server does not support these extensions. Therefore to get the most out of Conversations Classic you should consider either switching to an XMPP server that does or - even better - run your own XMPP server for you and your friends.
These XEPs are - as of now:
- XEP-0050: Ad-Hoc Commands lets to interact with gateways.
- XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams (or mod_proxy65). Will be used to transfer files if both parties are behind a firewall (NAT).
- XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol for avatars.
- XEP-0191: Blocking command lets you blacklist spammers or block contacts without removing them from your roster.
- XEP-0198: Stream Management allows XMPP to survive small network outages and changes of the underlying TCP connection.
- XEP-0215: External Service Discovery will be used to discover STUN and TURN servers which facilitate P2P A/V calls.
- XEP-0237: Roster Versioning mainly to save bandwidth on poor mobile connections.
- XEP-0280: Message Carbons which automatically syncs the messages you send to your desktop client and thus allows you to switch seamlessly from your mobile client to your desktop client and back within one conversation.
- XEP-0308: Last Message Correction allows you to edit last message as well as retract it.
- XEP-0313: Message Archive Management synchronize message history with the server. Catch up with messages that were sent while Conversations Classic was offline.
- XEP-0352: Client State Indication lets the server know whether or not Conversations Classic is in the background. Allows the server to save bandwidth by withholding unimportant packages.
- XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload allows you to share files in conferences and with offline contacts. Requires an additional component on your server.
- XEP-0461: Message Replies provides support of native replies, which also works in many transports (gateways) as well.
