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DeltaChat for the win

Ok, maybe not for the win per se, but I am switching over to DeltaChat as I really only have two people I share with.

While its not perfect, it works well enough for me, I just send the occasional message, link or image to others or m'self, and it does that fine. This time around, I've got the sticker thing sorta fixed, Android doesn't offer a sticker option, something I need to see if'n I can figure a work around for, but I've got it working well on my desktop. I've also tried the Mastodon bridge, and that works fine, but having your home timeline show up as chat messages get old fast, notifications are a little bit better, but still, bad idea. There is a Telegram bridge, but that looks like it only works to bridge Telegram Groups to DeltaChat, so that's not all that great.

So what is DeltaChat? Its an email based encrypted messenger. You can use an existing email address, though I don't recommend that, or get one from DeltaChat or a couple other servers. Clients exist for Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android... And I suppose there's one for Windows too.

I guess if'n anyone wants to try it, or has questions, I can try to answer them, just shout at me here.

#deltachat #messenger

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@Milk๐Ÿฅ› You have one, or you need help doing it? I've got it handled on my end, got all my stickers that I wanted.
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You can use this keyboard app on Android to use stickers in DeltaChat!

github.com/fredhappyface/androโ€ฆ


GitHub - FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker: EweSticker is an Android sticker keyboard application, specifically designed for sharing a wide variety of custom stickers in supported messaging apps. This project draws inspiration from the uSticker project and

EweSticker is an Android sticker keyboard application, specifically designed for sharing a wide variety of custom stickers in supported messaging apps. This project draws inspiration from the uStic...
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@Hiro Lynx ๐Ÿพโ™ซ๐Ÿง I'd heard something about that, but hadn't tried it. Not sure how well it'll work, but we'll see if'n I can get it installed and working, animated images don't seem to work in the Android client though

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That works very nice, thanks. Wonder if'n iOS needs a solution like that or if'n it just works.

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@sfwrtr Unfortunately not, I wish they would integrate the stickers in the app directly.

However there seems to be some way to use the native iOS keyboard for this:

support.apple.com/en-in/guide/โ€ฆ

It seems to be supposed to work with Deltachat, as there is a solved issue about it in their GitHub, with a little video:

github.com/deltachat/deltachatโ€ฆ

I've not used an Apple product in ages myself so I hope it works!


sending stickers stopped working

adding stickers from the keyboard stopped working completely with the recent changes instead if being set, they are added in-line to the text field - and the ignored on sending
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@vextaur@blog.taursnd.

Deltachat mobile doesn't support stickers [workaround].


I found a good workaround that works well for #Apple #Mac, not quite a sticker picker but similar amount of clicks on iPad and iPhone. I like the odds that it would work on #windows and #linux versions.

  1. On Desktop apps, display your installed stickers and find a Show Sticker Folder button at the bottom.
  2. Click button. This displays the folders with .webp files.
  3. Create a Delta folder at the top level in iCloud (or whatever).
  4. Copy all the sticker folders to iCloud.
  5. In a #iPad or #iPhone chat, use ๐Ÿ“Ž (paperclip) button.
  6. Tap Files.
  7. Navigate to iCloud Delta folder and drill down to sticker folder, then double-click the sticker you want. The .webp file will be inserted, and the mobile app shows it animated!
  8. If you selected a sticker, the picker will remember the folder for next time.

Optional: Tell Files to display icons. To the extent that works in Files on the iPad and iPhone (questionable), you will see the key image for the sticker.

#BoostingIsSharing

#DeltaChat #stickers #chat #messenger

Shows image picker on Delta chat for emoji and stickers, with the sticker tab showing. What's important is the desktop app also displays an Open Sticker Folder button, which if pressed, shows folders with .webp files that contains the stickers.
#linux #boostingissharing #windows #ipad #chat #apple #iphone #stickers #mac #deltachat #messenger
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