DeltaLab Encrypted Messaging app for Android description
DeltaLab is a friendly fork of Delta Chat messenger, a chat app compatible with the existing e-mail infrastructure.
WARNING: Be careful when running WebXDC apps in DeltaLab, the sandboxed webview can't currently prevent WebRTC connections, so in theory information inside the WebXDC app could be leaked and also your IP, the risk is low, for most people this is not even important, but if you are a person at risk, only use trusted apps, or use official Delta Chat.
DeltaLab was created with a focus on usability, good user experience, and saving data plan and comes with some different default settings than Delta Chat. Also the app usually experiments with new features and alternative paths of development that eventually might get added to the official Delta Chat client.
Main differences with official Delta Chat client:
- Markdown support
- Support for displaying Telegram's animated stickers (.tgs files)
- Support for SVG images previews
- Multiple color themes/skins
- A videochat instance is set by default
- Replies to your messages in muted groups trigger notifications
- Backup filenames contain the account's address
- More Kaomoji emoticons
- Verified icon is shown in the chat list for verified contacts and the "Device Messages" chat
- Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos
- It is possible to click OPENPGP4FPR: and mumble: links in messages
- Option to disable the auto-generated e-mail Subject set by Delta Chat
- When you select a message you have additional options to remove/add the sender from the current group easily
- Voice messages have more aggressive compression in "worse quality" mode to save data plan
- Default configuration changed: automatic download of messages limited to 160KB
- Messages in groups are ignored if the sender is not a group member
- Account's display name is shown in the app's title bar instead of the name of the app
- Your avatar is visible to other users in Mailing Lists
- Can open/display mardown (*.md) attachments
- Can open/display *.htmlzip attachments
- Can be selected as application when clicking/opening links, this is useful to share the link with web grabber bots
- For mini-apps developers: there are some differences in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/adbenitez/deltalab-android/#webxdc
