🏆 Telegram iOS Contest 2022, Round 1: Results

We were pleased to see 68 developers, both newcomers and accomplished contest veterans, participate in this competition to implement a feature-rich media editor from scratch.

For such a complex task with a tough deadline, many contestants delivered solid apps. However, no submissions in this round qualified for🥇1st place. For this reason, we will be giving smaller rewards to a larger than usual number of apps. Congratulations to the winners – the number of people on today’s podium indicates a growing community of skilled programmers.

Remember, winning Telegram Contests is the only way to join the Telegram Team.

When evaluating the entries, we first rated how well an app implemented the minimum requirements, then separately reviewed any of its extra features. Smooth, high-quality drawing was the top priority.

🥈2nd and 🥉3rd Place were reserved for submissions that achieved the minimum requirements, while apps that were close to the criteria but lacked polish and stability were awarded 🎖4th Place.

After many hours of testing and deliberation, we are now ready to announce the results. Everyone is welcome to check the detailed reviews for each app on contest.com. Here are the winners!

II PLACE – 3,000$
🥈Slim Wasp
🥈Kind Heron
🥈Fierce Zebra
🥈Hip Mantis
🥈Noble Puma
🥈Night Hamster
🥈Sexy Crab
🥈Hip Hyena, penalties:
– Prominent crashes (-250$)
– Rebuilding penalty (-250$)

III PLACE – 2,000$
🥉Huge Kiwi
🥉Brave Peacock
🥉Merry Goat
🥉Jolly Croc
🥉Dreamy Quokka
🥉Dashing Puma
🥉Fluffy Ram
🥉Ace Cobra
🥉Tall Penguin
🥉Subtle Duck
🥉Jolly Frog
🥉Young Jaguar, penalties:
– Prominent crashes (-250$)
– Rebuilding penalty (-250$)

IV PLACE – 800$
🎖Bold Shark
🎖Tidy Owl
🎖Jolly Wolf
🎖Hip Duck
🎖Perfect Mule
🎖Bossy Wombat
🎖Keen Butterfly
🎖Sturdy Llama
🎖Slim Spider
🎖Crazy Bear
🎖Young Deer
🎖Perfect Hawk
🎖Fluffy Mammoth
🎖Huge Piranha
🎖Stone Unicorn
🎖Magic Mink, penalties:
– Rebuilding penalty (-250$)
🎖Dashing Shark, penalties:
– Rebuilding penalty (-250$)

Congratulations to the winners! 🎉

P.S. We will soon contact each winner to coordinate their payouts.

🏆 Telegram Call UI Contest for Android and iOS

Prize fund: $100,000 ($50,000 for each platform)
Deadline: 23:59 on March 4th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: March 18th, 2023

The Task is to implement the redesigned flow for audio and video calls into Telegram for Android OR Telegram for iOS based on the provided mockups (Android / iOS). Regardless of the platform you chose, the submission must precisely represent the provided design – this includes all elements, their proportions and position on the screen, as well as their animations and transitions.

Details:
For a complete description of the required features and logic together with contest guidelines, see these documents:
• Android
• iOS

Evaluation Criteria:
During the evaluation stage, Telegram judges will test the submissions on a broad range of Android and iOS devices. The key factors that will be used to determine the best apps are:

- The general aesthetics of the app.
- Adherence to the provided mockups and design elements.
- Attention to the tiniest details in the user experience.

The smoothness of animations and the overall stability of the app will play a major role. Last but not least is the absence of significant flaws (including crashes, performance issues, battery drains, visual glitches, noticeable element blinking, layout imperfections and more).

Winners on each platform may be offered a chance to join the Telegram team in Dubai.

Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at the end of this round. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram Call UI Contest: Results

We received 49 submissions in total – 21 Android and 28 iOS apps. We are pleased to see many newcomers included among the familiar contest contributors who continue to climb the ranks.

We would like to remind the community that these competitions are the only way to join the Telegram Team. That's why several winners will soon hear from us not only about their payouts but also regarding an opportunity to continue working on Telegram.

The🥇 1st place winners are Dark Swan, Dreamy Crab and Eager Cat on Android, plus Merry Goat and Smart Fish on iOS – their apps were more than just good. The judges appreciated the overall quality of the other submissions, with over 50% of participants earning🥉3rd or🥈2nd place in this contest.

Here are the winners on Android:

I PLACE – $5,500
🥇Eager Cat
🥇Dark Swan
🥇Dreamy Crab

II PLACE – $3,500
🥈Dreamy Chicken
🥈Modest Dolphin
🥈Fairy Zebra, penalties:
– Default package ID (– $250).

III PLACE – $2,000
🥉Stylish Croc
🥉Fit Falcon
🥉Sleek Beetle
🥉Calm Giraffe
🥉Hardy Turkey
🥉Large Kangaroo, penalties:
– Default api_id (– $250).
🥉Savvy Swan, penalties:
– Default api_id (– $250).

IV PLACE – $1,250
🎖Mad Seal
🎖Night Gnat
🎖Merry Panda
🎖Fierce Bull
🎖Holy Jaguar
🎖Brave Goose, penalties:
– Default api_id (– $250).
🎖Suave Penguin, penalties:
– Default package ID (– $250).
🎖Kingly Cobra, penalties:
– Default package ID (– $250).

🏆And the champions of iOS:

I PLACE – $4,500
🥇Smart Fish
🥇Merry Goat

II PLACE – $3,000
🥈Hip Hyena
🥈Hip Mantis
🥈Chic Zebra
🥈Fierce Zebra

III PLACE – $1,500
🥉Tall Penguin
🥉Ace Cobra
🥉Bossy Wombat
🥉Funky Tapir
🥉Classy Whale
🥉Subtle Duck
🥉Hardy Goose
🥉Grim Cow
🥉Bright Mink
🥉Cuddly Croc
🥉Perfect Mule
🥉Quiet Seal
🥉Nimble Gopher
🥉Stout Starfish
🥉Sexy Crab

IV PLACE – $1,000
🎖Ace Puffin
🎖Stylish Walrus
🎖Noble Puma
🎖Noble Beaver
🎖Busy Panda
🎖Ace Rat
🎖Jolly Frog

Congratulations to the winners and a happy Sunday to you all! 🎉

🏆 Telegram UI Competition for iOS

Prize fund: Up to $25,000
Deadline: 23:59 on September 3rd (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: September 13th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a small competition for iOS developers while our major contests are taking a summer break.

The Task:
Implement two new animation flows into Telegram for iOS based on the provided mockups. No third-party UI frameworks are allowed.

Evaluation Criteria:
The smoothness of animations, adherence to the provided mockups and design elements, the overall stability of the app – and the absence of significant flaws (including crashes, performance issues, visual glitches, noticeable element blinking, layout errors and more). Proper support for iOS 17 will be considered a bonus.

Devices:
During the evaluation stage, submissions will be tested on a broad range of iOS devices: iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPhone 14 Pro, iPad Pro, etc.

Winners may be offered a chance to explore further cooperation opportunities with Telegram.

Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot later. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram UI Competition for iOS: Results

Out of the 27 total submissions, 23 implemented at least one animation flow – and 21 entries have earned rewards.

The new archive animations proved particularly challenging for all contestants – as no one was able to implement the provided design flow for every possible state of the chat list.

However, Hip Mantis deserves special recognition for their excellent implementation of the chat preview flow. For the strongest submission, Hip Mantis receives 🥇 1st PLACE – also noting their solid attempt at the archive animation and years of contest participation.

As previously announced, #overdue entries were accepted, while being moved down 1 place as a penalty.

Please meet the winners:

1st PLACE – $3,000

🥇 Hip Mantis

2nd PLACE – $2,000

Entries that implemented both parts of the task with less severe issues than other submissions.

🥈 Hip Hyena
🥈 Subtle Duck
🥈 Ace Rat

3rd PLACE – $1,250

Submissions that implemented only the first part of the task (the archive flow), but did not cover the chat preview flow OR were affected with more severe bugs.

🥉 Funny Pigeon
🥉 Jolly Frog
🥉 Subtle Jackal
🥉 Quiet Seal
🥉 Fierce Goat
🥉 Perfect Wasp
🥉 Perfect Hawk, penalties:
– Overdue entry (🔽2nd place).

4th PLACE – $750

Apps featuring only the second part of the task (the chat preview flow) OR entries with extreme issues.

🎖 Bold Shark
🎖 Funky Tapir
🎖 Tall Penguin
🎖 Grim Cow
🎖 Savvy Swan
🎖 Noble Beaver
🎖 Agile Starfish
🎖 Large Whale
🎖 Smart Fish

BONUS – $500

🏅 Sexy Crab, penalties:
– Overdue entry (🔽4th place).

Congratulations to the winners and a warm welcome to all Telegram Contests newcomers!

🤖 Telegram Mini App Contest

Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 9th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 31st, 2023

Telegram is launching a contest for developers of Mini Apps like this one. One of the goals of this competition is to create a variety of examples and reusable tools for future Mini App developers.

The Task:

The task is to build any useful Mini App for Telegram and publish its client and server code on Github.

Your submission must include:
• A GitHub repository containing the source code of your example Mini App, built from scratch. You can use any programming language for the server-side code. The source code of your app must be easy to understand and reusable for any developer starting to build Mini Apps for Telegram. For more, see the “Mini App requirements” section below.
• Comprehensive and organized documentation in English, including a setup guide. Ensure the guide addresses every element of your solution, and the documentation details all potential errors and exceptions. It should be written in a user-friendly way that is approachable even for inexperienced developers. Translations in other languages are welcome too.

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Mini App requirements:
• Design a simple yet functional app. For reference, see @DurgerKingBot or @wallet.
• Your solution should include at least one fully functional Mini App example. Example apps are allowed to showcase fictional services or generate placeholder data, such as creating a mock store.
• It is strictly prohibited to implement a browser view of actual webpages, the Mini App must be a separate entity built from scratch solely for its purpose. For example a "Weather App" submission that only provides a browser view for an existing weather website is not allowed. That said, actual webpages are allowed for authorization flows where a user is required to sign up or log in to use the service.
• Recommended Mini App categories include games, dating, community management, venue booking, e-commerce, сontent editing, etc.
• Each additional Mini App example can qualify for extra rewards, but only if it represents a different app category.

Evaluation Criteria:
We will evaluate each submission's code and documentation quality from the developer perspective, as well as its example Mini Apps from the user perspective. The app should be useful for developers, users, or both.
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@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram ML Competition

Prize fund: $40,000 – from which the 1st place winner will receive $15,000 if any submissions qualify for 1st place.
Deadline: 23:59 on October 15th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 29th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a competition for ML engineers to identify programming and markup languages in code snippets.

The Task: implement a library that detects the programming and markup language of code snippets from message text. You can use any publicly available data to train your solution.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/ML-Competition-2023.

@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.