XMPP 2015 - Challenges of Modern-Day Instant Messaging

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Covers recent concrete XMPP developments: server-side message archiving that stores and serves conversation history, resource-based synchronization so multiple devices share one conversation state, background-connection improvements to reduce power use, and practical multi-device end-to-end encrypted sessions that replicate messages across devices. Presents working Android demos and implementations for standard XMPP servers as functioning solutions.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 25:50WhatsApp
3. 27:36Instant Messaging
4. 33:45Encryption

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