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We designed it to help third-party developers create their own <strong>custom apps</strong> using the Telegram platform.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://telegram.org/blog/tdlib">Read about TDLib on the Telegram blog »</a></p> </blockquote> <h4><a class="anchor" name="tdlib-advantages" href="#tdlib-advantages"><i class="anchor-icon"></i></a>TDLib Advantages</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Cross-platform</strong>. TDLib can be used on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, WebAssembly, FreeBSD, Windows Phone, watchOS, tvOS, Tizen, Cygwin. It should also work on other *nix systems with or without minimal effort.</li> <li><strong>Multilanguage</strong>. TDLib can be easily used with <strong>any programming language</strong> that is able to execute C functions. Additionally it already has native bindings to Java (using JNI) and C# (using C++/CLI).</li> <li><strong>Easy to use</strong>. TDLib takes care of all <strong>network implementation details</strong>, <strong>encryption</strong> and <strong>local data storage</strong>.</li> <li><strong>High-performance</strong>. In the Telegram Bot API, each TDLib instance handles more than <strong>24,000</strong> active bots simultaneously.</li> <li><strong>Well-documented</strong>. All TDLib API methods and public interfaces are <a href="/tdlib/docs/"><strong>fully documented</strong></a>.</li> <li><strong>Consistent</strong>. TDLib guarantees that all updates will be delivered in the <strong>right order</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Reliable</strong>. TDLib remains <strong>stable</strong> on slow and unreliable Internet connections.</li> <li><strong>Secure</strong>: All local data is <strong>encrypted</strong> using a user-provided encryption key.</li> <li><strong>Fully-asynchronous</strong>. 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