0.22.0.1227 beta

Emoji display support everywhere, chats list rework, shared media counters, and more.

Features and Changes

1. Shared Media counters when tabs are attached to the header
2. Reworked and improved text rendering. This affects chats list, link previews, shared links, inline results, etc.
3. Emoji display support in texts everywhere within the app
4. Formatting support in pinned messages
5. Links in pinned message preview are now clickable (both tap & long-press)
6. Counters are now demi-bold in most places
7. Changed input text selection background color in Night Blue theme
8. Unified avatar placeholders rendering: now they follow the same
9. Crossed bell emoji in notifications when sender has explicitly disabled sound
10. Many minor changes and improvements on the way
11. Improved censorship circumvention
12. Protection in couple places against vertical utf characters

Chats List

13. Three-lines chats list style
14. Option to select between different chat styles (currently available: 2-line, 3-line, and 3-line with bigger text)
15. Formatting support
16. Media and forwarded messages icons
17. Unified message preview text with notifications
18. Game name is now displayed in the chats list
19. Pinned message is now displayed in the chats list like regular message with special icon
20. Album captions or number of media within an album is displayed now in the chats list

Region Selector (phone number screen)

20. When tapping region, it gets fully selected for convenience
21. When tapping region for the first time, you will see full list of regions instead of the single search result
22. Slightly improved region search algorithm

Known issues

1. RTL text + icon in the chats list gets messed up
2. Sometimes action text (typing, uploading, etc) is displayed under the animated icon

Possible bugs (report if you find them)

1. Saved Messages placeholder is used instead of the full name for the current user, where it is not intended to be, or vice versa
2. New RTL-related issues outside messages or IV, excluding the one mentioned above. If you find several of them, please collect them in the list, and then report to the group.

Bugfixes

1. Avatar in drawer: solid line glitch on the right side of it
2. Avatar in drawer: when switching to the account with avatar, its radius may get stuck on non-zero value
3. Duplicate location message when stopping live location from message menu
4. Rudimentary option to send Live Location in secret chats which does not work
5. Can't switch slideshow to previous position in IVs (back swipe intercepts)
6. Send link with media (e.g. telegram or instagram slideshow), try to open media without reopening the chat, animation won't work (simple cross-fade)
7. "Loading user..." in replies to an auto-forwarded channel message in a group
8. Crash when parsing certain texts
9. TDLib: after performing storage usage cleanup, chats list is missing until re-entering the sreen
10. TDLib: several crashes
11. Missing ellipsis character in trimmed link previews, shared links, etc
12. Fixed character loss + overall break in the text render engine when end of prev part does not match the start of the next one and this gap includes a newline
13. Header bottom bar text may slightly touch the fast forward icon
14. Links or lines are not clickable at all in the text viewer (e.g. https://t.me/contest/103)
15. Flag emojies in avatar placeholders get converted into alphabet
16. Specific case when text may exceed its maximum bounds
17. Chat title in the chats list overlaps the ticks icon
... + more

Translations

1. Replaced Default with LedDefault on Customize Notifications screen
2. Separate string for support accounts when it's online
3. Separate string for game invites in groups