<i>DeltaLab</i> is a friendly fork of <i>Delta Chat</i> 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.

<b>Main differences with official Delta Chat client:</b>

<ul>
<li>Basic markdown support (bold, italic, strike, etc.)</li>
<li>Support for displaying Telegram's animated stickers (.tgs files)</li>
<li>Support for SVG images previews</li>
<li>Multiple color themes/skins</li>
<li>A videochat instance is set by default</li>
<li>Replies to your messages in muted groups trigger notifications</li>
<li>Quote-reply a message with a single emoji to set it as reaction</li>
<li>Location streaming feature enabled by default and have extra option to share location for 12 hours</li>
<li>Verified icon is shown in the chat list for the "Device Messages" chat</li>
<li>Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos</li>
<li>It is possible to click <b>OPENPGP4FPR:</b> and <b>mumble:</b> links in messages</li>
<li>Option to disable the auto-generated e-mail Subject set by Delta Chat</li>
<li>When you select a message you have additional options to remove/add the sender from the current group easily</li>
<li>Voice messages have more aggressive compression in "worse quality" mode to save data plan</li>
<li>Default configuration changed: automatic download of messages limited to 160KB</li>
<li>Account's display name is shown in the app's title bar instead of the name of the app</li>
<li>Your avatar is visible to other users in Mailing Lists</li>
<li>Can be selected as application when clicking/opening links, this is useful to share the link with web grabber bots</li>
<li>Can be selected as app to open .xdc files</li>
<li>For mini-apps developers: there are some differences in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/adbenitez/deltalab-android/#webxdc</li>
<li>Send WebXDC mini-apps of up to 10MB</li>
<li>Additional "Privacy" section in the settings</li>
</ul>

<b>WARNING:</b> 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.
