Development
Conversations is being developed on GitHub by a team of volunteers under the lead of project founder and maintainer Daniel inputmice Gultsch. Translations are being managed on Transifex.
Helping out
The Conversations Team is always looking for new volunteers to fix bugs, develop new features or for simply providing unique and fresh ideas that help Conversations to stay the most advanced and easiest to use XMPP client out there.
Start out by searching our issue tracker for open tickets or get to know us in our group chat on conversations@conference.siacs.eu
We are also looking for translators. Transifex provides a very easy to use GUI. You just need to create an account and request to join a language team.
Beta Testing
If you bought the App on Google Play, you can get access to the latest beta version by joining the Conversations Beta Testers community on Google+ and then using this link to sign up for the beta test.
New versions usually come out at the beginning of each month, with beta versions about a week prior to that.
Customizations
Conversations also provides you with a great base to create your own instant messenger for your customers or employees. If you don’t have the time or resources to do this yourself you can hire the lead developer Daniel Gultsch to provide you with the solution you need.
Daniel added a couple of features we needed to be able to roll out Conversations to our users, one was support for server side group bookmarks, the other one was avatars. Development was professional and we got early snapshots to test ourselves, the features then got added to the next public release. I can highly recommend hiring Daniel.
Anders Sandblad
Daniel has consistently impressed us with the quality of his code and responsiveness. Definitely one of the best and most professional programmers we've encountered.
Lumie Technologies
Building Conversations
- Download and install the Android SDK
- Install the Google Repository and the latest SDK tools with the Android SDK Manager
- Check out the source code using git clone https://github.com/siacs/Conversations.git
- Compile with ./gradlew assembleFreeDebug
- Your APK will be at build/outputs/apk/Conversations-$version-free-debug.apk