Simple background-colour for chats in the Android-version

Feature Proposal

android

ian January 20, 2026, 9:15pm 2

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Custom background per chat/group Feature Proposal

It is fine to be able to set the default background for all chats, but an option to set custom background to individual chat or group, would help people to avoid posting sensible information in the wrong room, believe me this can happen even to ninjas

Separate wallpaper for each chat. Feature Proposal

Expected behavior I can change the wallpaper for each chat separately. Real behavior I can only change the wallpaper for all chats at once.

New chat background

so here is my suggestion for a new default chat background: (ref new chat background · Issue #477 · deltachat/deltachat-android · GitHub) [deltabackground] what do you think? if we come to a final state I’m happy to create PRs to the repos (including the source .svg)

Cool "hidden" feature in Delta Chat Feature Proposal

Hello, I just noticed that DC supports animated backgrounds. All you have to do is select a GIF as wallpaper. Unfortunately, it only works in the desktop version. Is this function actually intended? Anyway, I like it and my chats now appear against the backdrop of a beautiful soothing waterfall. I think it would make sense to enable this function on smartphones as well. As far as I know, no other messenger has anything like this. It would be even better if you could set a separate GIF fo…

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