🏆 Android Design Contest: Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the Android Design Contest. The judges thoroughly reviewed each of the 89 submissions.

The contestants brought several solid concepts and intriguing ideas to life – though even the top entries can’t be utilized without further polishing and refinements. Despite that, we are happy to award Stout Pony, Eager Jackal, Bold Crab and Happy Squid with 🥇 1st PLACE. These entries carefully considered multiple aspects in their designs and the judges were unanimous in their selection.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $2,500
🥇 Stout Pony
🥇 Eager Jackal
🥇 Bold Crab
🥇 Happy Squid

2nd PLACE – $1,500
🥈 Mighty Unicorn
🥈 Cute Lemur
🥈 Swift Shark
🥈 Keen Pony
🥈 Mad Spider

3rd PLACE – $750
🥉 Posh Hamster
🥉 Perfect Dodo
🥉 Busy Phoenix
🥉 Mellow Llama
🥉 Hardy Wolf
🥉 Huge Puffin
🥉 Neat Kangaroo
🥉 Nice Pony
🥉 Mighty Falcon
🥉 Holy Eagle
🥉 Fancy Unicorn
🥉 Cool Lion
🥉 Tanned Cat
🥉 Nimble Sheep
🥉 Humble Cockroach
🥉 Able Bear
🥉 Holy Gecko

Congratulations to the winners and a happy Friday to you all!

🏆 App Icon Competition: Results

We were delighted to see so many interesting concepts and new takes on the Telegram icon – with a total of 252 submissions.

For this competition, we will be distributing the prize fund among all contributors who submitted at least one icon that we accepted. The award per entry is based on its overall evaluation.

While many of the submissions still require aesthetic changes, we have decided to further increase the total prize fund by an additional $2,600. This ensures as many contestants as possible will receive recognition.

Meet the winners!

$1,000
Sharp Unicorn

$600
Funky Hedgehog
Agile Raven

$400
Rich Cockroach
Night Heron
Brave Hawk
Fancy Otter
Sunny Dragon
Calm Dolphin
Sweet Raccoon
Brave Mink
Perfect Hawk
Mad Spider

$200
Fluffy Cow
Cool Lion
Tactful Butterfly
Agile Goat
Caring Phoenix
Funny Python
Mellow Beaver
Noble Ant
Gifted Toad
Agile Quokka
Happy Moth
Strict Ant
Cute Otter
Gifted Cat
Funny Meerkat
Slim Bee
Cute Lemur
Mad Mink
Jolly Elk
Sturdy Cock
Daring Ladybird
Sunny Moth
Hardy Bear
Suave Spider
Funky Chicken
Dashing Duck
Stylish Turtle
Noble Toad

$100
Modest Gecko
Desert Crab
Magic Rabbit
Mindful Wasp
Shiny Puffin
Merry Phoenix
Suave Kangaroo
Stylish Kangaroo

Update on the ML Competition

New Results Date: November 7th, 2023

A significant portion of participants (35 out of 94 entries) faced difficulties with their submissions and failed to comply with the General Requirements. We considered multiple scenarios, including disqualification – however, this is the first Telegram Contest for many of these participants, so we instead chose to provide them an extra opportunity.

The relevant contestants have been contacted and were requested to apply further clarifications to their submissions. Due to this, the judges required additional time and effort to process each non-compliant submission – waiting for the contestants to send back the requested information, then to re-build and re-run their entries.

Therefore, the results date has been postponed to November 7th – so that all the entries can be evaluated equally. We apologize for the incovenience.

We’ve also extended the deadline date for comments on contest.com. We kindly ask each contestant to check their entry for unresolved issues. The 59 entries requiring no further changes from our side will be prioritized in the final scoring. We will also apply relevant penalties for the submissions that did require them.

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Based on preliminary testing:

73 entries have been run successfully (including the submissions we’ve had to rebuild).

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19 out of 73 entries with a detection rate lower than 70% have been disqualified for exceeding the 500ms limit per text sample.

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The remaining 54 entries will proceed to the 2nd testing stage.

Here is the list of submissions that achieved a 70% detection rate in the 1st testing stage:

| Entry | Result | Time
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1. | 4691 | 83.7% | 58ms
2. | 4633 | 82.6% | 69ms
3. | 4642 | 80.3% | 42ms
4. | 4661 | 77.5% | 46ms
5. | 4610 | 75.4% | 613ms
6. | 4672 | 74.5% | 265ms
7. | 4684 | 73.9% | 111ms
8. | 4614 | 73% | 552ms
9. | 4629 | 72.3% | 304ms
10. | 4606 | 71.8% | 141ms
11. | 4616 | 70.2% | 355ms



Stay tuned for the final results (they may differ greatly from these initial results 👆) on November 7th.

🏆Telegram Mini App Contest: Results

It was our pleasure to test all the Mini Apps that everyone submitted. The judges spent many hours using the apps and studying their source code – and they were happy to discover that some of them utilize the Telegram Mini App Platform’s features to great effect.

This contest introduced tons of innovative ideas – and both developers and users will greatly benefit from their diversity. We decided to increase the prize fund by another $16,250 to properly reward all the efforts that went into this content. Without further ado, meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $1,500
🥇Hip Hyena delivered Paint Bot, letting users create collaborative boards inside group chats – and able to show who is drawing in real time.
(Extra rewards:🥈x3 for Friends On Map + Convene + Openly) +$3,000

🥇Fierce Frog for Chess Now – a multiplayer chess game.

🥇Hairy Sloth’s StickerWiz allows you to generate and edit stickers to quickly share them – all from the chat.

🥇Tidy Walrus for Naval Clash – a classic battleship game right in your chat.

🥇Eager Snail for Favorite Stickers Bot – a huge catalog of Telegram Stickers with search, user ratings, rich previews and sharing options.

🥇Smart Starfish introduced a slick, feature-rich text editor for taking notes and managing to-do lists. Meet Notepher.

🥇 Keen Goat brought the classic card game UNO to Telegram – with online matchmaking and user stats.

🥇Stone Parrot for telebook – the best storefront in this competition. Book a fictional hotel for a fantastic vacation.

🥇Ace Boar for their Telegram Onboarding Kit – an amazing set of tools showcasing the power of Mini Apps.

🥇Slim Elk for their @Call app that lets you manage a call calendar from inside Telegram chats. Thanks to deep integration, the app provides a satisfying and convenient way to share your call calendar and book calls.

🥇Small Dragon implemented TeleOTP – a simple and snappy OTP Generator right inside your Telegram app.

🥇Rich Pony submitted MedSync to show everyone the future of healthcare appointments.

2nd PLACE – $1,000
🥈Quiet Cock for InstaQuiz. Challenge your friends and test your knowledge in multiplayer quiz games.

🥈Ace Scorpion built Lowkey Brokey – a minimalist app for tracking your expenses.

🥈Wise Kiwi introduced Rate Mate – an app to rate and review groups or channels.

🥈Smart Mantis for their Cinema app. A storefront concept for browsing and booking movie tickets.

🥈Bright Cock for Venue Explorer, where you can browse and book imaginary accommodation.

🥈Bright Deer made an Office Gym Bot that reminds you to keep up your healthy habits.

🥈Mindful Swan built DPXWallet, a complete crypto-wallet concept.
(extra reward:🥈x1 for SimpList – a productivity app to track all your tasks) +$1,000.

🥈Stone Mink for their Movie Matcher – swipe for something to watch in a unique dating-app format.

🥈Sleek Shrimp created MemoCard – so you can build, study and share flashcards all within Telegram.

🥈Agile Lizard has you covered for Christmas with Secret Santa Party – set up a Secret Santa for your friends.

🥈Cool Wolf implemented a neat dating app At first sight!.

🥈Fit Falcon has a literal Mini App Store for Telegram Mini Apps.

🥈Hardy Turkey cooked up Laurel Cafe – fresh fictional food right at your fingertips.

🥈Stout Antelope for their Tips app, a favorite of bartenders and hair stylists everywhere.

🥈Neat Quokka created Community Board – browse and post ads in your local area.

🏆Telegram ML Competition: Results

We thank all the participants of the Telegram ML Competition for their patience as the judges performed additional evaluations. We are now ready to announce the final results.

For the final scoring, we tested all submissions on code snippets from public Telegram chats. Overall, only two submissions scored more than a baseline solution, which returns TGLANG_LANGUAGE_OTHER for all inputs. Even these submissions only correctly recognized the language for 35.5% and 9.4% of actual code samples respectively. Therefore, there is no submission that qualified for 1st place in this competition. For details, each contestant can refer to the dedicated comment we've posted for each submission.

2nd PLACE – $4,000
🥈Sturdy Kangaroo 
🥈Giant Turkey
🥈Dashing Gull, penalties:
– preloading penalty (–$100)
🥈Small Dolphin, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

3rd PLACE – $2,000
🥉Able Quokka 
🥉Stylish Puffin  
🥉Witty Snail 
🥉Mindful Kitten 
🥉Merry Pony 
🥉Nice Beaver, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)
🥉Groovy Cow, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

4th PLACE – $1,000
🎖️ Gifted Lemur 
🎖️ Swift Skunk 
🎖️ Sleek Pony 
🎖️ Eager Piranha 
🎖️ Quiet Scorpion 
🎖️ Nimble Monkey 
🎖️ Large Monkey 
🎖️ Gifted Piranha 
🎖️ Grim Ibex 
🎖️ Brave Beetle 
🎖️ Funky Horse, penalties:
– rebuilding with tweaks penalty (–$300)

We invite all participants of this competition to the 2nd round – even those who did not earn a prize in this round. Further details will be announced this week.

🏆 Telegram ML Competition, Round 2

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 November 20th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: only contestants from Round 1 are eligible
Results: December 4th, 2023

In the Round 2 of this competition, contestants will work on a shared library that can be used to identify programming and markup languages in code snippets.

The Task: implement a shared library that detects the programming or markup language of a code snippet. You can use any publicly available data and the provided dataset to train your solution.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/ML-Competition-2023-r2.

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

🏆 Telegram Contests Update

Since the launch of contest.com in 2019, we've held contests for developers, designers and artists with a total prize fund of over $2,500,000 – and more contests are on the way.

Why do this? It's a way for people to learn and get better at what they do. Winning in our contests is also the only way of joining the Telegram Team. Some winners are offered paid projects, and a few have even become full team members.

Coming later this year: A contest for JS developers. It's your chance to be part of something big for our 800M+ users. Stay tuned!

🏆 Telegram UI Competition for Android

Prize fund: Up to $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 on December 7th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: December 15th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a competition for Android developers to implement a new animation for deleting messages.

The Task:
Implement a new animation flow for deleting messages into Telegram for Android similar to the provided demo (the demo is a recording of a beta feature on Telegram for iOS). Your solution should support all entity types for both incoming and outgoing messages across all types of chats and channels.

The most preferable outcome is likely to be achieved by taking the component SpoilerEffect2.java as a reference. However, you may opt for your own approach as long as no third-party UI frameworks are used.

Evaluation Criteria:
The primary criteria for determining a winner will be the app's stability and performance while replicating the provided demo as closely as possible (the animation in general, also the particle flow and dispersion).

Your app must be free of significant flaws (including crashes, visual glitches, noticeable element blinking, layout errors, and more).

Devices:
During the evaluation stage, submissions will be tested on a broad range of devices and Android versions (Android 7-13) not limited to the mentioned below:
• Samsung Galaxy (A12, A32, A51, S22 Ultra)
• Xiaomi Redmi (9, 9A, Note 8 Pro, Note 11)
• POCO (X3 Pro)
• Oppo (A54).

Telegram for Android utilizes performance classification with SharedConfig.getDevicePerformanceClass() – each device is defined as HIGH, AVERAGE or LOW. In order for your app to qualify for a reward, your solution must work flawlessly on HIGH and AVERAGE devices. Introducing a proper implementation for LOW devices will be considered a bonus.

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

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

🏆 Telegram ML Competition, Round 2: Results

We are pleased to announce that 14 of the 62 total contestants in this round have been nominated for prize places. Sunny Whale, who boasts the best total score, has been promoted to 🥇1st PLACE and secured a $15,000 prize!

Our final evaluation was conducted with the following dataset – and we've included a scoring breakdown beneath each submission.

The Final Score for each submission was calculated based on their Code Language Detection and Overall Detection rates in proportion to the Average Time per sample.

Submissions that scored less than 90 points for their Overall Detection Rate were discarded, and given a Final Score of zero.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $15,000
🥇Sunny Whale

2nd PLACE – $4,500
🥈Gifted Piranha
🥈Small Goose

3rd PLACE – $2,000
🥉Swift Skunk
🥉Hip Hyena
🥉Daring Lynx
🥉Merry Pony
🥉Brave Beetle

4th PLACE – $1000
🎖️Sturdy Kangaroo
🎖️Dandy Ram
🎖️Sharp Sloth
🎖️Merry Goat
🎖️Nimble Seal
🎖️Dashing Gull, penalties:
– preloading penalty (–$100)

Congratulations, and thank you to all who participated!

🏆 Telegram UI Competition for Android: Results

So far, this has been one of the most fun competitions we've held – at least from the judges' perspective. After many hours of testing and thousands of vaporized messages, we are now ready to announce the results – from a total of 30 submissions, 17 contestants qualified for prizes.

While many entries followed our advice and used the Spoiler Effect as a reference, some chose a slightly different approach – like 🥇Fierce Frog who implemented the task with compute shaders. And on that note, here are the winners!

1st PLACE – $3,000
🥇Fierce Frog
🥇Dreamy Crab

2nd PLACE – $2,000
🥈Slim Gull
🥈Fit Falcon
🥈Cool Bee
🥈Merry Gopher
🥈Tactful Hare penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
🥈Huge Fox penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
🥈Dandy Owl penalties:
– default API ID (–$500)

3rd PLACE – $1,000
🥉Fancy Bat
🥉Fierce Bull
🥉Dreamy Chicken
🥉Strict Pigeon
🥉Fairy Zebra
🥉Subtle Piranha
🥉Desert Falcon penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
🥉Young Beetle penalties:
– default API ID (–$500)

All contestants can find personalized feedback from the judges in the comment section of their submission.

Congratulations to the winners and a happy weekend to all!

🏆 Telegram Сontest for JS Developers, Round 1

We've decided to expand the scope of this contest, so the updated Task and additional details will be posted in this channel on January 10th, 2024. Ensure you have notifications enabled so you don't miss it.

Wishing you all the best in the New Year! 🚗