@dansup https://core.telegram.org/mtprotothe protocol documentation is in English but it's written like a calculus textbook. I've been contemplating publishing something like "Telegram protocol for normal people" for quite a while lol. It's quite simple after you get rid of all the Nikolay-Durov-ness.There's also an official library (C++ with bindings to many languages) to somewhat simplify building apps: https://github.com/tdlib/td