Want to help us testing the upcoming Delta Chat 2.8.0 release for Android?
NOTE: if you want to install over your existing installation of the app make backups before upgrading in case some fatal error occurs so you can go back to the previous version without losing your data!
(UPDATED: this was about 2.6.0 initially but thanks to the bugs reported here now there is a 2.8.0 version, thanks a lot beta-testers! you are really helpful! you rock!)
I’m currently testing DC-Android 2.6 and AC 2.6. At the moment I can’t use DC-Desktop 2.6 because, after installing, it is not possible to load a backup or transfer a profile from another device with an older version via QR code.
DC-Android 2.6 and AC 2.6 are working fine so far, but I noticed that not all contacts were transferred during the update. I have two (test) profiles in DC-Android and two in AC. Each profile has the other one from the same app as a contact. Then, after the update, the contact from the other profile is missing. The other contacts are all there.
Great, looks great, but there are a few things that need to be adjusted:
The email that appears when there is no encryption is not displayed neatly, and I may be too picky, but at least there should be a space between the time and the email.
The confirmation status and email address in the profile are displayed after all the shared chats, and if there are many of them, it doesn’t look very good.
Other than that, everything is great, especially the channels. The only thing that’s a bit off is the quality of the group and channel avatars, which need to be improved in the same way as the profile avatars. Other than that, everything is fine.
for the “address” and “introduced by” line: these information are meant as additional data points to see who a contact may be and if things are reasonable. the “shared chats”, however, are a much stringer hint - therefore, they come first (if you have no or few “shared chats”, the other information are automatically up - and if you have 20 shared chats, you know that contact is already nicely introduced)
still, we see the point and discussed that already a lot, esp. “clicking through to the root” is not super-nice that way. at some point, we will probably iterate over
the quality of the group and channel avatars, which need to be improved in the same way as the profile avatars
they all have the same quality, however, note, that existing avatars are not updated automatically, and that desktop has a known bug
I disagree that. In version 1.58.4, the avatar quality was improved on the personal profile, but in groups and channels, selecting an image compresses it to pixels.
Yes it is. We recommend to make a backup of the old account data in case you want to downgrade again. It is not possible to downgrade with the same account data from 2.x.
The other backups all load, but contacts are often missing. These are always contacts from my own profiles.
For example: I have two profiles, and each profile contains the other profile as a contact. After loading the backup, these contacts are gone. It doesn’t matter whether they are chatmail profiles or regular email accounts.
A few others are also missing, but I can’t see any pattern so far.
The backup was created with DC-Desktop 1.60.1 for macOS. I can load it into a 1.x version without any problems, but not into a 2.x version. I also tested DC-Android 2.6 and AC 2.6.
https://download.delta.chat/android/beta/deltachat-gplay-release-2.8.0.apk (google play candidate, overwrites existing installs, should keep data)
https://download.delta.chat/android/beta/deltachat-foss-debug-2.8.0.apk (f-droid candidate, can be installed beside google play)
desktop 2.6 test releases: 
ios 2.6 test releases: 
