Brief overview of new features available on Telegram X for Android.
Scheduled Messages and Send Options
- Schedule messages of any kind to be sent at specific time or until user goes online
- Send without sound: send messages at night without disturbing the other side
- Reminders in Saved Messages: send a message of any kind to yourself in the future.
- Send without markdown: send text without applying markdown rules
- Added Settings – Notifications – Sent Scheduled Messages
- Holding send button also works while forwarding messages, viewing stickers and editing video messages
Tap «More options…» to forward as copy and more.
Animated Emoji & Loop Animated Stickers
- Animated Emoji when you send a text message that includes only one emoji
- Tap for vibration when viewing these animated emoji: ????
- Added Settings – Interface – Animated Emoji
- Tap to replay animated emoji or sticker (when loop is turned off)
- Added Settings – Interface – Loop Animated Stickers
Bulk Actions in Chats List
- Select multiple chats to perform specific action at once
- Select all unread chats (i.e. to mark as read), muted (i.e. to unmute), or just all (to do whatever else)
- Warning with the information what exactly you will lose when you try to delete many chats at once
- Clear media in selected chats
Texts: strikethrough, underline and nested formatting
- Added new styles: underline and strikethrough
- Combine multiple text styles in messages at once
- Added Settings – Interface – Edit Markdown: edit text messages and captions using the old-style markdown.
Other
- Specify custom chat admin titles
- New look of admin roles in chat members list
- Include Archived Chats setting for Badge Counter
- Send as File in send menu for images and videos without edits
- Bank credit card number highlighting & click handling in messages (works only for messages received after an update)
- Username and hashtag highlighting in Telegram, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram link previews
- Restricted until date and time on restriction warning bar
- Removed Silent Broadcast in favour of Send without sound
- While viewing Instant View, other links with Instant View will be highlighted
- Supported
<mark>tag in Instant View - Swapped Mark as Read with Archive in Chat Preview
- View all messages from linked channels in a group: Message menu – More – Messages from channels.
Chat Scroll Improvements
- When you are above unread messages and tap scroll to bottom bottom, it will scroll to the first unread message
- When you tap on
t.me/c/{message-id}ort.me/group/{message-id}links in messages that lead to the same chat and press scroll to bottom, it will return you to the message you pressed link from. Like with replies - Origin message, to which scroll to button leads sometimes, like in the case above, is now remembered between chat openings and app restarts
Bugfixes
- Inconsistency when sending / editing some text messages: link preview is not displayed before sending, but is displayed afterwards
- Missing caption changes after editing photo caption & re-entering the chat while offline
- Incorrect touch handling in centered texts in IV
- When you report a message, only chat gets reported without message identifiers
- Crash related to hiding passcode
- Incorrect position of header title when viewing global hashtag results
- Incorrect position of scroll to bottom button when viewing in-chat hastag results
- Text links are parsing inside `code`, when they should not
- Android 10: Incorrectly rotated images in the attachment menu
- «Read all chats» does not read marked as unread chats
- Nested styling in Instant Views does not work properly
- Glitched first frame in the send button animation when it plays for the very first time
Download on Google Play
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thunderdog.challegram
Subscribe to Beta
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.thunderdog.challegram