Telegram Desktop with Compose Multiplatform

Contents

• Requirements
• Current versions
• Supported platforms
• Build
• Run application

Requirements

	Version
jdk	21

Current versions

	Version
Compose Multiplatform	1.9.3
TDLib	1.8.60

Supported platforms

MacOS (x64 and M)

Linux (x64 and arm64)

Windows (x64)

Build

1. Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/p-vorobyev/telegram-desktop-compose-multiplatform.git

2. Specify environment variables(GIT_HUB_LOGIN, GIT_HUB_TOKEN) with your GitHub credentials or write them directly to backend/build.gradle.kts file. We need them to download some dependencies from GitHub packages.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/p-vorobyev/*")
        credentials {
            username = System.getenv("GIT_HUB_LOGIN")
            password = System.getenv("GIT_HUB_TOKEN")
        }
    }
}

3. Go to directory backend/src/main/resources and fill in the application.properties with your Telegram credentials:

spring.telegram.client.api-id=
spring.telegram.client.api-hash=
spring.telegram.client.phone=<international_format_phonenumber>
spring.telegram.client.database-encryption-key=
spring.telegram.client.database-directory=<directory_for_telegram_data>

4. Compile TDLib native library for you operating system following these instructions. Place the compiled library in the folder desktop/resources/<operating_system_folder>.

5. Run the build script in the project root directory:

./build.sh

When the script completes, you will see the destination path of the binaries in the console output.

> Task :desktop:createDistributable
The distribution is written to /Users/vorobyev/Documents/projects/telegram-desktop-client/desktop/build/compose/binaries/main/app

Run application

At the first start you need to authorize the app with code from Telegram(will be sent to official app). If you have activated 2-Step verification you will also need to confirm it. After this, the chats will load for a while and become available. Example with filter some chats: Currently only some basic message types (text and photo) are available without additional features (reactions, delivery status, reply info, etc.). Some features will be implemented in the future as possible.