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Telegram's Move to Swift on iOS Promises a More Battery-friendly App

posted by martyb on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the Less-Filling!-Chats-great! dept.

SoyCow1984 (from IRC) writes:

Telegram's move to Swift on iOS promises a more battery-friendly app:

Founder Pavel Durov said on his Telegram channel that the Swift version looks the same as the current app, but it's sleeker, faster and more battery efficient. He noted that the Telegram team is "putting some finishing touches on it," though it's pretty much ready to make the switch for all of its iOS users. A completely new codebase could mean there are some bugs or glitches, though Durov claims Telegram will quickly fix them.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday September 23 2018, @02:18PM (3 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday September 23 2018, @02:18PM (#738840)

    It's a messaging app with end-to-end encryption.

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:59PM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:59PM (#738893) Journal

    Boy, it would be nice if things like that little tidbit of information appeared in the summary....

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Monday September 24 2018, @04:23AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday September 24 2018, @04:23AM (#739059) Homepage Journal

      Telegram is also quite ahead of the technology curve, as a lot of features in whatsapp first appeared in telegram. Plus telegram is a "platform" so that you can write "bots" on it that automate things.

  • (Score: 2) by EETech1 on Monday September 24 2018, @07:07AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Monday September 24 2018, @07:07AM (#739089)

    Saves your battery because it's not doing all those battery draining encryption operations anymore!

    Who wants to switch to the app that uses a brand new codebase for their sensitive communications?