The situation has improved in the past two years

Daniel Gultsch
Sun, 29 May 2016 23:36:39 +0200

It is important to mention that the situation has vastly improved since this blog post was written. Conversations on Android implements all XEPs mention by Georg and a few more to further improve battery life.

I gave a talk at Froscon 2015 explaining everything in detail but the essence is you download Conversations and it behaves pretty much like a normal messaging app. It has images, emojis, group chats, end to end encryption and everything else you'd expect. And of course it is reliable.