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[Josiah Boothby <1247216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@kai-mast Google's and Facebook's use of XMPP may not be elegant
(especially FB's), but it is a usable back end solution that allows
people to migrate more seamlessly from Android—it is probably the
biggest impediment to my personal adoption of Ubuntu Touch on my phone.
It doesn't have to be a perfect solution, especially now at the
beginning where most people using UT are early adopters who understand
that it may still be a few years before everything works as smoothly as
we're accustomed to from other systems.

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Title:
  Support for XMPP

Status in messaging-app package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi All,

  basically there are three things that block me to move to Ubuntu
  Touch. A missing spotify app (already in developement :) ), a missing
  mail app (planned for 14.04 :)  ) and finally a missing IM app --
  especially for XMPP.

  Thusly, I propose adding support for XMPP to the messaging-app. It
  already uses telepathy so we should be able to add this functionality.
  I would also be willing to work on this if somebody points me out
  where to start.

  I guess we would have to break this down into several work packages:
  setting up accounts, online/offline handling of friends, choosing
  protocols when composing a message etc. But first I would like to get
  some feedback if you would be okay with such a feature. Maybe it is
  already planned?

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