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I’ll be in Chemnitz, Germany, for the last weekend of March at #CLT2026, talking again about #UnifiedPush.
The Chemnitzer Linux-Tage are an event across the subjects linux and open source for everybody. It brings together linux users, experts, and companies.
(chemnitzer.linux-tage.de)
It’s been almost a decade since I wrote a blog post on the State of Mobile XMPP in 2016. Time to start working on an update.
The situation has only improved since then, and #XMPP has matured into a solid, feature-rich protocol for federated instant messaging
XMPP is not suited for mobile devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own proprietary instant messaging solution. But it also gained some popularity through a blog post entitled The (Sad) State of Mobile XMPP in 2014 by Georg Lukas. While Georg wasn’t wrong with his status report per se, it is important to understand that he describes a temporary problem. There was a brief period of time where XMPP actually had some catching up to do. XMPP was fine before, when we had different requirements—In fact I was using an XMPP client on my Nokia E71 back in 2008 (That’s more than two years before WhatsApp was even invented)—and it’s fine now in 2016.
Daniel Gultsch (gultsch.de)
