This version should fix the crashes that seem to occur in many of the older version. Consider this another intermediate Beta version, there will be at least another one until I will consider it a release candidate.
If you migrate from an older version, the Telegram authentication files have been moved to .purple/telegram-purple. If you want to keep your old secret chats, please copy it manually from ~/.telegram-purple, otherwise you will be prompted for a new SMS code.
Below, you will find instructions on how to build the libpurple protocol plugin. If you just want to use the plugin in Adium, [download precompiled packages here.](https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/releases).
The username is your current phone number, including your full country prefix. For Germany, this would be '+49', resulting in a user name like '+49151123456'. Telegram will verify your phone number by sending you a code via sms. You will be prompted for this code, once that happens.
Like in the official Telegram apps, the displayed buddy list consists of all active conversations.
##### Foreign Users
Foreign users, like for example people you only know through a group chat but never had any conversation with, will not be part of your buddy list by default. You can add those users to the buddy list by clicking on "Add contact..." in the users context menu.
One caveat of secret chats in Telegram is that they can only have one endpoint, this is a limitation of the protocol. This means that if you create a secret chat in Pidgin you will not be able to use that chat on your phone. You will be asked whether to accept each secret chat, so you can always choose to accept the chat on a different device if you want. You can set a default behavior for dealing with secret chats (Accept or Decline) in the account settings if you don't want that prompt to appear every time.
The Telegram phone applications for iOS and Android make use of standardized Unicode smileys (called [Emojis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)). Pidgin
does not display those smileys natively, but you can install a custom smiley theme like (https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji) or (https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin) and activate it under Settings > Themes > Smiley Theme.
Compiling with XCode is a little bit problematic, since it requries you to compile Adium first to get the necessary framework files. My advice is to just use the [prebuild bundle](https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/releases), but if you really want to do it, follow those steps.
1. Get the Adium source, compile it with XCode and copy the build output into telegram-adium/Frameworks/Adium. It should contain at least Adium.framework, AdiumLibpurple.framework and AIUitilies.framework
2. Open the Adium source code, go to ./Frameworks and copy libglib.framework and libpurple.framework into telegram-adium/Frameworks/Adium
3. Build the tgl submodule and delete libtgl.so from libs/ (it should only contain libtgl.a)
This software is based on the library [Libtgl](https://github.com/vysheng/tgl), which was written by Vitaly Valtman <mail@vysheng.ru> and others, see (http://github.com/vysheng/tgl)
