🏆 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!

🎨 Android Design Contest

Prize fund: $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 5th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 19th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a new design contest for its Android app.

The Task:
Create a detailed redesign concept for the Telegram Android app. Your concept should maintain the app’s core essence and lightweight feel while introducing an improved visual aesthetic with updated elements.

The guidelines of Material Design 3 may also be used for additional reference. To be eligible for any rewards, your submission must include all the areas and components outlined below.

Minimum Requirements:

Chat List
• Bottom Navigation Bar

Chats
• Private Chats (including Secret Chats)
• Channels (both admin and subscriber perspectives)
• Groups (including those with topics enabled)

Profiles
• User Profiles
• Group and Channel Info pages

Settings
• Main Settings Page
• User Info

Your design should thoroughly consider various scenarios and encompass all related elements and components – such as pinned messages, service messages, shared media, stories and more.

For the Chat List you can include an optional version with a white header (and an alternate translucent appearance).

Submission Format:
1) The layouts can be implemented as static .png files. For any animation demos, use .mp4 format (without sound).
Source files and properly structured Figma projects are also welcome.
2) If you include videos, you must also provide several static .png images from each video that serve as a storyboard.
3) If you use complex animated icons, they must be in lottie json or .tgs format.

Submissions that include detailed visualizations, such as videos showcasing your project from a general perspective and offering in-depth views of elements like transition flows between screens and interface animations (including buttons) are more likely to receive a higher place in the prize rankings.
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@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

If you're looking for more contests for designers, there are similar third-party competitions being held by @CryptoBotRU.
• Motion Designers
• UI/UX

🤖 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.

🎨 Telegram App Icon Competition

Prize fund: $10,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 19th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 26th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a competition for artists to draw new icons for Telegram's Android and iOS apps. The best icons may be later offered to users in addition to the default sets currently presented in both apps.

The Task

Create at least 1 icon and adapt it for both Android and iOS. Submissions featuring more than 1 icon are accepted providing that each of the icon is thematically different.

Each of your app icons must be based on the core form of the Telegram logo. You are free to incorporate any scenes or characters, except copyrighted materials.

Using Telegram's official sticker and emoji packs is allowed for references (you can adapt characters to create icons based on them). The use of generative AI is strictly prohibited.

App Icon Guidelines

Android
• Follows the Android UI Guidelines
• Contains a PNG of 432x432px for each icon (you must also provide the following resolutions: 324х324px, 216х216px, 162х162px and 108х108px – each is used for different screen pixel densities). The icon must contain separate background and foreground layers
• Includes source files

P.S. For further references, clipping mask samples (for non-direct versions of the app we apply the masks from the archive), other icon resolutions and the suggested structure check the provided archive below this message.

iOS
• Follows the Apple Design Guidelines
• Contains a non-transparent PNG of 1024x1024px for each icon (make sure it looks correct when resized to 270x270px, 180x180px or 120x120px, otherwise provide separate images for each resolution)
• Includes source files

Submissions and Evaluation

@ContestBot will start accepting submissions closer to the deadline. The prize fund will be distributed among the best contributors. When evaluating submissions we will prioritize the quality of each artwork, its uniqueness, and its compliance with the “App Icon Guidelines” – your contribution must be submitted in a ”ready to use“ format requiring zero adaptions or tweaks on our side.