Telegram for Android reaches version 5.0 with more translations, a new design and more news

In October Telegram came to the release 5.0 in iOS and now it is the turn of Android. It does so with the bag of news to which we have become accustomed, with a new translations that potentially will bring many new languages in the next few months and other developments.

The instant view of items shared in Telegram improvement supporting more types of content and formats, and the design is renewed with news that remind Telegram X (not updated since October, by the way).

Telegram in a thousand and one languages

The interface of Telegram a long time ago that is available in several languages, including Spanish, but no need to be a linguist to know that there were many translations. The community will take care of the rest with the new platform translations, available here.

This platform is similar to the one that had WhatsApp for a couple of years (and which served us to learn of new developments that estabn to come), as to any person, prior registration, you can vote what translation is better or suggest a new one, if none of the options is good.

Example of a translation

This new platform should increase the support for new languages in the Telegram in the next few months, and it comes as a gift-with the possibility of use any language pack available with a link like this (which in this case, change the interface to Spanish).

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New design

To celebrate the release 5.0, Telegram for Android renews its design. At first it may seem that everything is the same, but in truth there are many small adjustments that achieve a cleaner interface. you Can see these changes in the menu, the icons and especially the user profiles.

In these last few user profiles are now displayed easily all the media elements shared by that user. And, speaking of these media items, the list also has a renewed design.

Pin messages for all

Another interesting novelty is the possibility to pin messages in any group, even if you only have two members. Until now, the messages anchored were only available in groups with more members. Also you can pin messages in saved Messages.

Other changes

in Addition to the above, stresses the empowerment of the articles instant: links to web pages that are opened in a view’s own, much faster than if you could open the web version of normal in the browser. Your support has been expanded and can now handle many more types of format.

Other changes are in the selector profile pictures, which allows you to choose the part of the photo that interests you more accurately, video player, which you can zoom in during playback and the music player that shows the album cover in playback. This, and minor fixes and improvements, as always.