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| author | Daniel Gultsch <daniel.gultsch@rwth-aachen.de> | 2014-03-24 13:24:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Gultsch <daniel.gultsch@rwth-aachen.de> | 2014-03-24 13:24:46 +0100 |
| commit | e5aed2c5f667679f1e1e6f3fc4ae22c2007cb8e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 2021d8565158b460461637566eafb70f2628e071 | |
| parent | 608f860ea3f40294bc0decbe43a46448f024f245 (diff) | |
and more faq
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Conversations is an open source XMPP client for Android 4.0+ smart phones * Holo UI * Multiple Accounts * Group Chats -* Contact list integration +* Address book integration ###XMPP Features Conversations works with every XMPP server out there. However XMPP is an extensible @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Conversations is entirely open source and licensed under GPLv3. So if you are a software developer you can check out the sources from github and use ant to build your apk file. -The more convenient way which not only gives you automatic updates but also -supports the further development of Conversations is to buy the App in the Google +The more convenient way - which not only gives you automatic updates but also +supports the further development of Conversations - is to buy the App in the Google Play Store. ####How do I create an account? XMPP like email for example is a federated protocol which means that there is @@ -50,7 +50,17 @@ engine of your choice. Or maybe your univeristy has one. Or you can run your own Or ask a friend to run one. Once you found one you can use Conversations to create an account. Just select 'register new account on server' within the create account dialog. - +####How does the address book integration work? +The address bock integration was designed to protect your privacy. Conversations +neither uploads contacts from your address book to your server nor fills your +address book with unnecessary contacts from your online roster. If you manually +add a Jabber ID to your phones address book Conversations will use the name and +the profile picture of this contact. To make the process of adding Jabber IDs to +your address book easier you can click on the profile picture in the contact +detais within Conversations. This will start an add to address book intent with the jabber ID +as payload. This doesn’t require Conversations to have write permissions on your +address book but also doesn’t require you to copy past Jabber ID from one app to +another. ###Security ####Why are there to end-to-end encryption methods and which one should I choose? In most cases OTR should be the encryption method of choice. It works out of the box with most contacts as long as they are online. |