DeltaLab

Encrypted chat over e-mail (Delta Chat client)

AppID:	chat.delta.lite
Author:	Asiel Díaz Benítez
License:	GPL-3.0-only
Donation:	Webpage LiberaPay OpenCollective
InRepoSince:	2022-05-09
LastRepoUpdate:	2023-11-18
LastAppUpdate:	2023-11-17
LastVersion:	1.42.2
Categories:	Internet, Messaging
Google Play:	Check if it's there

DeltaLab is a friendly fork of Delta Chat messenger, a chat app compatible with the existing e-mail infrastructure.

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
Quote-reply a message with a single emoji to set it as reaction
Location streaming feature enabled by default and have extra option to share location for 12 hours
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
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 be selected as application when clicking/opening links, this is useful to share the link with web grabber bots
Can be selected as app to open .xdc files
For mini-apps developers: there are some differences in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/adbenitez/deltalab-android/#webxdc
Send and display WebXDC of up to 10MB
Additional "Privacy" section in the settings

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.

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Version 1.42.2 (2023-11-18)

Android Versions:

Target: 13.0
MinVer: 4.1
ABIs: armeabi-v7a

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42 Libraries detected:

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Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
ShareTarget (UI Component)
AndroidX library to provide backwards compatibility for using shortcuts as direct share targets.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
Glide (Utility)
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
svg android (Utility)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) library for Android.
Sticky Header Grid Layout Manager (UI Component)
Android RecyclerView sticky header list/grid layout.
Subsampling Scale Image View (UI Component)
view with pan and zoom gestures for displaying huge images without loss of detail.
APNG4Android (Utility)
Android animation support for APNG & Animated WebP & Gif,High performance
ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
mp4parser (Utility)
outdated API to read, write and create MP4 container.
ZXing Android Embedded (Utility)
Barcode scanning library for Android, using ZXing for decoding.
Mapbox Android SDK© (Map)
a toolset for displaying (custom online) maps inside of Android applications. Also see OSM Wiki and Mapbox.
Material-ish Progress (UI Component)
a material style progress wheel compatible with Android 2.3+.
android-crop (Utility)
library for cropping images.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
ShortcutBadger (UI Component)
library supporting badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers.
TimeDurationPicker (UI Component)
time duration input control and picker dialog as known from Lollipop's stock timer app.
Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
Signal Android (Utility)
a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.
PhotoView (UI Component)
ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.

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ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.