Highlights of the blogpost:
- Telegram 7.0 is not yet available for iOS, as Apple failed to review the update in time for Telegram’s 7th birthday (Telegram could have just waited a bit more tbh)
- for clients supporting the latest API layer available (layer 118), calls and video calls will use the new WebRTC-based VoIP library instead of libtgvoip (which is still embedded in the apps because of backward compatibility)
- video calls are e2e encrypted, of course
Small curiosity: the 3rd round of the voip contest ended on April 8th. This day probably marked the beginning of the works on the new VoIP library by whoever they hired - even though some people were already working on it. Regardless, it took ridiculously little time to bring it to production on all the official apps. I guess they skipped QA entirely lol
Small curiosity #2: screen sharing is also planned and will be released within 2020
Bonus: for its 7th birthday, Telegram tweeted this nice video with an overview of all its cool features (relevant though I give them a pass as it’s not trying to be some relatable twitter corp crap)
Yay! I use Telegram actively and video calls along with screen sharing are going to have lots of potential for it.
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