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?
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
Disabling XMPP SASL auth methods that are not supported on Android
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.
I am not sure of what those changes are, with the exception of altering the ProviderManager mechanism so that it can load the smack.providers XML file from an Android friendly directory. By default Smack loads this from its own resource directory, which is not reachable in Android.
As the project description states, ASmack adds a set of patches to regular Smack. Check this conversation for further details.
Regards.
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
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
It modifies Smack to allow it to work on Android.
I am not sure of what those changes are, with the exception of altering the ProviderManager mechanism so that it can load the smack.providers XML file from an Android friendly directory. By default Smack loads this from its own resource directory, which is not reachable in Android.
You can see how things are done in talkmyphone. I think they are using smack with android.