MadelineProtoDocs/docs/API_docs/constructors/help.appUpdate.md

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Constructor: help.appUpdate

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An update is available for the application.

Attributes:

Name	Type	Required	Description
can_not_skip	Bool	Optional	Unskippable, the new info must be shown to the user (with a popup or something else)
id	int	Yes	Update ID
version	string	Yes	New version name
text	string	Yes	Text description of the update
entities	Array of MessageEntity	Yes	Message entities for styled text
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional
document	Document	Optional	Application binary
url	string	Optional	Application download URL
sticker	Document	Optional	Associated sticker

Type: help.AppUpdate

Usage of parse_mode:

Set parse_mode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.

Set parse_mode to Markdown to enable markdown parsing of the message.

The following tags are currently supported:

<br>a newline
<b><i>bold works ok, internal tags are stripped</i> </b>
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italic</em>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<code>inline fixed-width code</code>
<pre>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</pre>
<blockquote>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</blockquote>
<a href="https://github.com">URL</a>
<a href="mention:@danogentili">Mention by username</a>
<a href="mention:186785362">Mention by user id</a>
<a href="tg://user?id=186785362">Mention by user id</a>
Custom emoji: <emoji id="5368324170671202286">👍</emoji>
Custom emoji: <tg-emoji emoji-id="5368324170671202286">👍</tg-emoji>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>
<spoiler>Spoiler</spoiler>
<tg-spoiler>Spoiler</tg-spoiler>

You can also use normal markdown (bot API MarkdownV2 syntax), note that to create mentions you can also use the mention: syntax like in html:

*bold \*text*
_italic \*text_
__underline__
~strikethrough~
||spoiler||
*bold _italic bold ~italic bold strikethrough ||italic bold strikethrough spoiler||~ __underline italic bold___ bold*
[inline URL](http://www.example.com/)
[inline mention of a user](tg://user?id=123456789)
![👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)
\`inline fixed-width code\`
\`\`\`
pre-formatted fixed-width code block
\`\`\`
\`\`\`php
pre-formatted fixed-width code block written in the PHP programming language
\`\`\`

[Mention by username](mention:@danogentili)
[Mention by user id](mention:186785362)
[Mention by user id](tg://user?id=186785362)
[👍](emoji:5368324170671202286)
[👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)

Example:

$help_appUpdate = ['_' => 'help.appUpdate', 'can_not_skip' => Bool, 'id' => int, 'version' => 'string', 'text' => 'string', 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity]parse_mode: 'string', , 'document' => Document, 'url' => 'string', 'sticker' => Document];