Submissions of the of the November Android contest appeared on the Telegram Contest website.
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While judges are preparing the final results, you can explore the published works.

To see a submission, click contester's name and then click "DOWNLOAD .APK" button.

Since the apps were developed by third-party developers, it's not recommended to use your main account.

#contest

How the features from the November Telegram update should work

In early November, Telegram launched a contest for Android developers, the goal of which was to implement features, which will become part of the upcoming update.

Today, the works of the contestants have become publicly available, which means that users can already try some of the functions. Let's try to figure out how it currently works:

1. Prevent forwarding messages and saving media

At the moment, the function is working, and can be configured by the author of the group or channel. It is important to note that forwarding messages and saving media works from older versions of clients, this should be fixed after stable release.

2. Sending messages via a channel in public groups

At the moment, you can write via channel only in those chats where the user is the administrator. There is no such limitation on the test server.

🔂 Telegram Desktop 3.2.5
#Windows #Linux #macOS

• Fix connecting in case bad characters appear in device name on Windows.
• Fix custom input methods on macOS.

2021-11-16 @Telegram #TDesktop

🔂 Telegram 8.2.2 for iOS 9.0+ & watchOS 5.0+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
• Hyper-Speed Scrolling and Calendar View for Shared Media, Join Requests, Global Chat Themes and More

2021-11-17 @Telegram #iOS

Results of November Android Developer Contest Announced

The task of the competition was to implement several new functions in the mobile application in accordance with the proposed design.

The prize-winners shared $ 63,000 among themselves.

Detailed information about the winners, their awards and works can be viewed on the official russian Telegram channel of the contests.

The second stage of the competition will focus on the implementation of one new feature in the Telegram application. A detailed description and video layouts of the upcoming stage will be published exactly one week later (in the evening of November 26). The competition will run for 9 days until 6.12.

#contest

Telegram advertising platform will exclude state channels

Pavel Durov stated that the messenger will not place advertisements on the channels of officials and government organizations:

"We are now excluding the channels of government officials and government organizations from the advertising platform"

New appearance of invitation links

Starting today, all invitation links are of the form: t.me/+zx_8t4HICqM0MGUy

Following links created earlier with the prefix "joinchat", joining will work as before.

Sponsored Posts in Third Party Clients

On the official website of the messenger an announcement has appeared regarding the display of sponsored messages in third-party Telegram applications.

Developers using the Telegram API must maintain and start displaying official sponsored posts correctly in their apps by January 1, 2022.

Using the Telegram API will continue to be free for all developers. The rules regarding monetization in third-party applications remain the same: developers are allowed to monetize their efforts through their own advertising or other legal means, provided that all monetization methods used in their applications are clearly mentioned in their app store descriptions.

If the rules are ignored, Telegram will disable applications that violate them.

Configure Secret Chat Requests in Other Active Sessions

According to the official GitHub repository with the source code of Telegram for Android, the upcoming update will give you an option to disable Secret Chat requests for active sessions of choice.

In other words, users will be able to make some exact devices they have logged in uncappable of accepting new Secret Chat requests. Earlier, users were complaining they were missing out some Secret Chats because of unclear algorithm which decides on which device should the chat start on.

Send message as

Group admins will be able to send message in the groups as the channel they own instead messaging with their personal account

Supported in public groups, location based groups and channel linked groups

#Telegram #iOS #Beta v8.3

ℹ️ @KeralaGramChannel

Redesigned profile page

#Telegram #iOS #Beta v8.3

ℹ️ @KeralaGramChannel

Restrict Forwarding in Groups and Channels

Groups and Channels got an option to restrict forwarding of the messages.

Clients will not allow to copy/forward/save the messages

When screenshot is taken on these chats, the media will be shown as blank

#Telegram #iOS #Beta v8.3

ℹ️ @KeralaGramChannel

Improved Devices Page

- Animated icons for easy identification of session type
- Tap on any session to disable accepting new secret chats on those devices
- Old sessions can be automatically terminated in 1week, 1month, 3month, 6month intervals

#Telegram #iOS #Beta v8.3

ℹ️ @KeralaGramChannel

Reactions are coming to Telegram

#Telegram #Upcoming #Updates

ℹ️ @KeralaGramChannel

Telegram Announced the Second Stage of Android Contest

Task: Based on the official app's source code, and exactly following the provided design, add reactions to messages feature.

Conditions:
• Only first 35 winners of the first stage are welcome to participate.
• Authors of the best submissions will have a chance to join the Telegram team.

How to apply: The opportunity to upload the finished work will appear closer to the end of the contest - the @ContestBot bot will be used for this. The start of the acceptance of works will be announced separately in the @contest_ru channel.

Prizes fund: $50,000
Deadline: 6th of December, 19:59 UTC
Results: 10th of December

Details: https://contest.com/docs/android-Nov2021-ru2 (Russian only)

#contest

🆕 Automatically terminate old sessions

#android #beta v8.3 (2483)

🆕 Secret chat and Calls setting

#android #beta v8.3

🆕 Restrict saving content on private channel

#android #beta v8.3

Rename Current Device

Telegram desktop beta got a feature to rename the current device which will be shown in devices section.

This will be useful for users who uses multiple devices for easy identification.

#Telegram #Desktop #Beta

ℹ️ @KeralagramChannel

What Should We Expect in The Upcoming Telegram 8.3 Update

— Text recognition on images (iOS).
— New built-in themes.
— New Devices menu, disable incoming secret chants and calls for each device.
— Choose your file manager for file attachments (Android).
— Calendar and date range deletion.
— Restrict forwarding and saving media in private chats and groups.
— Send messages on behalf of a channel.
— Listen to playlists in reversed order or shuffle them (Desktop).

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🆕 Recognizing Text in Images on iOS

Open a photo in a chat > press the OCR button at the bottom right > tap and hold to select texts of the photo.
Note: This text-recognition feature is provided by iOS 13.0+, macOS 10.15+

@Telegram #iOS #beta v8.3