td
Cross-platform library for building Telegram clients (by tdlib)
tdesktop
Telegram Desktop messaging app (by telegramdesktop)
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| td | tdesktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 169 | |
| 6,489 | 24,521 | |
| 2.6% | 2.2% | |
| 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 15 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| Boost Software License 1.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
td
Posts with mentions or reviews of td.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-21.
- India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan (includes Briar, Element, Threema etc.)
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Building a telegram client with react-native (Part 1)
Add to build.gradle(:app) android - see, https://github.com/tdlib/td/issues/1904
Tdlib pre-built library. Android or build from scratch, see TDLib Android example
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Please a linux client... I'm missing it more than a mobile app.
It would be a good idea for Proton to write Drive using something similar to Telegram's https://github.com/tdlib/td. That way they could write their official clients more easily, and third party clients could be created with a lot of the work done.
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possible to use td with golang
https://github.com/tdlib/td is it possible to use td with golang
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telega.el - GNU Emacs telegram client
The problem there is mostly with how they're doing releases for tdlib: They create proper releases for major versions (like 1.7.0, 1.8.0), and then nothing for all for point releases (like 1.7.1), not even git tags - they're seeing those releases as development releases. They do a lot of (breaking) changes and new features between releases - so while distributions might want to stick with proper releases others might want to follow git (and the author is following git with his development branch).
- Telegram has broken compatibility with old clients
- PHP Extension written with C++. Build and check with GitHub Actions.
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What libraries from other languages do you wish were ported over into go?
tdlib, but it's huge
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[Feature Request] Limit/disable/remove option to delete chats on both ends
I think taking advantage of https://github.com/tdlib/td (telegrams library) to build some backup mechanism around it would be the best way forward.
tdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Telegram Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa...
so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to an app instead of a site.
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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?
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Telegram app is listed in audio sources but it is not running
Please report this to the Telegram GitHub.
- Is the Telegram package in RPM Fusion repositories considered safe and actively maintained for installation?
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[Q] What's the best TG client for Linux?
The Telegram Desktop app is available on Linux, and since it is open source, is commonly available in distro repositories.
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Open chats in new window
You just need to install Telegram Desktop if you want this specific thing :) Go to https://desktop.telegram.org and download it there.
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Need help saving settings. or setting a backup
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
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Telegram install on Tails
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop within the same directory as the Telegram executable, create a folder called TelegramForcePortable. This way you can save the Telegram settings across reboots in your persistent storage. no installation needed!
- What non-FOSS you can't live without?
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Official Telegram app : CPU hog
There are 2 versions, one is Telegram Desktop that you can get from their GitHub page, the other one is available on AppStore. I personally use the latter and it’s pretty much negligible in terms of battery impact.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing td and tdesktop you can also consider the following projects:
tg - telegram-cli
Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software - Telegram Member Scraper - Telegram auto group scraper Export telegram group members, how to copy telegram group members, Telegram marketing group
mobilecoin - Private payments for mobile devices.
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
setup-php - GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools.
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.
kotatogram-desktop - Experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
Telegram-Bot-Api-Cpp - Telegram Bot Api C++
TelegramSwift - Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0