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🔜 Telegram is about to introduce 10 new features for Mini Apps, enabling developers to create dozens of new kinds of apps and games on Telegram. 📺 Full-Screen Mode 📱 Home Screen Shortcuts ✍️ Subscription Plans 📍 Geolocation Access (with permissions) 📱 Device Orientation Data 💤 Emoji Status Access 🎨 Media Sharing 🎁 Sending Gifts 💭 Expanded Messaging Limits 💰 Ad Monetization ▶️ The last two items are already live with the remaining features launching within 2-4 weeks. Get your Mini Apps ready! 🚀

#new Hold and swipe to change video speed

#new save to gallery options

#new Add Media to Messages After Sending

#new Message Edit Time

Quick Share for channel posts when you tap and hold the share button. Tooltip for bots' Start button. QR Share button for Invite links.

🏆 Telegram Android Contest 2024, Round 1 Prize fund: $50,000 Deadline: 23:59 on October 28th (Dubai time) Who can participate: Everyone Results: November 2024 Telegram is hosting a contest for Android developers to implement new features into the app. THE TASK Implement the features in accordance with the mockups provided in the archive below: – Add Quick Share for channel posts when you tap and hold the share button. – Add Chromecast support for media playback. – Add QR Share button for Invite links. – Add a tooltip for bots' Start button. – Introduce new flow for upcoming video chats. Contest Requirements: General – No third-party UI frameworks are allowed. – The submission must be consistent with the existing Telegram for Android codebase. – The app's stability and performance must not be affected with the changes you made. – The app must be free of significant flaws (including crashes, visual glitches, noticeable element blinking, layout errors, and more). ❗️Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups. Evaluation: During the evaluation stage, we will review your code and test the submission on a wide range of Android devices. Winners may be offered a chance to explore further cooperation opportunities with Telegram. Submissions: Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

This channel (@iDubTG) is finally back in Global Search! Some other channels (for e.g. @movie) may be appearing back too, gradually.

New limited gifts

🔥 I love the Telegram team. Just yesterday, I suggested 10 improvements to our apps. We had mockups ready the same day, and today, we already have fully functional builds with these features implemented 😳 🆕 These updates include 5 improvements to gifts, 3 to hashtags, the ability to add media to a message after it’s been sent, and the ability to view the time a message was edited 🔜 ⚡️ All in just one day. It’s no surprise that the Telegram team has shaped how most messaging apps work today, contributing to nearly every innovation in communication 😒

UPDATE: I am fairly certain this is not AI, and is just an automatic response. The screenshots that are being spread around are fake, and are in fact real responses sent by volunteers, not AI ones.

Telegram appears to be experimenting with some form of an automatic response system with Volunteer Support. For reference, my message "Hey" was sent at 18:07:54, it's response "Hello, how can I help you?" was sent at 18:07:55

#lifestories On the 27th of August 2024, I was still in the police station in Paris. It was my third day there. With no devices or internet access, it felt like an extreme digital detox. That day I was having my regular hours-long interview with the police. Between the questions, I asked my lawyer if my ❤️ Julia would come for questioning too. He said she was expected to, but couldn’t come. I pressed him on the reasons. “Got scared? Left Paris?”, I asked. He hesitated. “She’s pregnant,” he finally said. It was not the answer I expected at that moment. I remained calm throughout my time in police custody, but this turn of events caught me off guard. After a pause, I said: “Thank you for the good news”. Other people present — the translator, the clerk, the policeman — produced awkward smiles. I later learnt that the police didn’t know how to break the news of Julia’s pregnancy to me. The circumstances were not exactly celebratory. Julia was alone in a foreign country she’d never been to before. No one knew when I would be able to talk to her again. Luckily, I was released late in the evening the next day. As I entered the rooftop terrace of the place Julia was staying at, magnificent fireworks erupted right in front of me. Below, the opening ceremony of the Paralympics had just begun. But the mood was not festive. I learnt that while I was away, the pressure on Julia had been insane. Some blogger started a rumor that she was a “Mossad agent.” Other people came up with the nonsensical idea that it was her posts (and not my chartered flight details) that had prompted the police to welcome me at the airport. With her devices confiscated, she couldn’t access her accounts on Telegram and Instagram for weeks. Her going radio silent on social media provoked even more speculation. Cyber-bullying aimed at her kept reaching new highs. Julia stood strong. But, unlike me, she wasn’t used to hostility. She is not made for war. Two days ago, she was visiting the doctor who monitored her pregnancy. I was in the middle of my 12-hour work day when Julia sent me “😭😭😭” from the doctor’s office. I instantly knew what was wrong.

#new Media player with support for HLS streaming, manual switching between available video streams and automatic switching based on network bandwidth @hls_samples