Telegram Contests

Design Competition 2024: Submissions We received 185 submissions for the Design Competition. Everyone is welcome to view the submissions while the Telegram judges conduct their own checks.

⚠️ We’ve noticed that many participants uploaded their videos as files to their contest channels. This is not the right way – the channel should host your demos sent as VIDEOS. ✔️ Make sure to address this before the deadline. (For reference, see @TelegramTips.)

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Design Competition. Start the bot, choose “Design Competition 2024”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A link to either private or public channel that serves as a catalog where all your videos are uploaded. Provide a table of contents, pin it. - An archive containing all your videos in their original resolution. Optionally, you may also include source files for your project (e.g., .aep files). Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline.

🏆 Design Competition 2024 Prize fund: Up to $30,000 Deadline: 23:59 Dubai time @ April 27th, 2024 Who can participate: Everyone Telegram announces a competition for UI designers. The top prize is $5,000, and the winner may get a chance to join the Telegram Design team. The Task is to create 3 short demo videos for 3 different features in the same manner as the demonstrations from the Telegram Blog. Each video should offer a brief overview of a feature that currently does not exist in official Telegram apps. You are welcome to use any ideas (e.g., in-app payments or a feed for channels). Be creative, but don't get carried away by things like a major app redesign. It is mandatory to cover both iOS and Android – at least 1 video out of 3 must be made for a different platform. Entries featuring all videos for both platforms are likely to get higher chances in the final scoring, provided that they fulfill the evaluation criteria. Evaluation Criteria: While evaluating submissions, the judges may apply the following criteria to determine the winners: Clarity – the general audience must have a clear understanding of how the feature you are displaying works. Consistency – the video should be looped, with smooth transitions between screens and all elements should be consistent and balanced. Completeness – you must present a finalized flow for your feature. Your video should show an entry point from existing Telegram interfaces, a brief overview of the feature's main components and a transition back to the entry point. Submissions: We will publish instructions how to submit your work closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram Сontest for JS Developers, Round 1: Results After many hours of testing and watching hundreds of Live Streams, we are now ready to announce the results. From a total of 19 submissions, 13 contestants qualified for prizes – basically every developer who implemented at least one part of the overall task. Despite a challenging Contest Task and a tight deadline, we were happy to see many solid apps. Despite nobody achieving perfect Live Streams (each implementation we tested requires a significant amount of further polishing), we would like to give a special thanks to🥇Fit Whale, who was able to find a great minimalist solution for Task II that will be merged with Web K soon.🥈Dreamy Crow presented a similar approach that is slightly less optimal, but still notable. Meet the winners! 1st PLACE – $6,000 🥇Fit Whale 2nd PLACE – $3,000 🥈Dreamy Crow 🥈Hip Hyena 🥈Large Moth 🥈Sweet Yak 🥈Giant Turkey 3th PLACE – $1,500 🥉Fierce Frog 🥉Large Butterfly 🥉Tidy Hawk 🥉Dreamy Crab 🥉Holy Beetle 🥉Tidy Walrus penalties: – rebuilding penalty (–$250) 🥉Huge Cobra penalties: – Task II plagiarism (–$500) P.S. Have a great Monday and stay tuned for Round 2 in the coming weeks!

Telegram JavaScript Contest: Submissions Build the application, then prepare: - A ZIP-archive with the following structure:

  -> public - folder with the build.
  -> src - folder with the app's source code.
  -> readme.txt – a text file that briefly describes the approach used for each task, listing all external dependencies and libraries you've added. If the bonus task has been completed, a detailed explanation must be included for it.

- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram Web K repository. Your repository may stay private until the deadline. Note: To build the application you have to make some changes in vite module: replace the file node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-R0I0XnyH.js with the one attached below. Note 2: @ContestBot will begin accepting submissions within the next 12 hours. To submit, you'll need to start the bot, select “JS Contest R1”, answer the bot’s questions, and then send your archive along with the commit link. Good luck!

🏆 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1 Prize fund: $30,000 Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time) Who can participate: Everyone Results: February 4th, 2024 Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web and enhance video playback capabilities in specific browsers. The Task: 1. Implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web K based on the provided mockups. 2. Introduce a workaround for a Chromium bug that prevents certain videos from being played. For an in-depth task description, further details and a bonus task, please refer to this document 👈 Evaluation Criteria and Requirements: General – No third-party UI frameworks are allowed. – The submission must be consistent with the existing Web K codebase. – Your implementation must work flawlessly on desktop Chrome (across Linux, macOS, Windows) and Safari on macOS. Proper support for other browsers and mobile environments (Android, iOS) will be considered a bonus. ❗️Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups. Entries that fail to do so will be severely penalized. Live Streaming – The most preferable outcome can be achieved by re-using parts of dash.js. However, you may opt for your own approach, provided that the final result is not inferior to the implementation present in Telegram's native apps. Submissions: Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline. P.S. Winners may be offered a chance to explore further opportunities with Telegram.

🏆 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! 🚗

🏆 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!

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Android UI Competition. Start the bot, choose “UI Competition for Android”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - An .apk file. Make sure your code is using your own package id. - A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram-Android repository. Note: Your repository may stay private until the deadline. Entries that are not using their own package id will be penalized.

🏆 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 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: Submissions ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram ML Competition, Round 2. Start the bot, choose “ML Competition”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A ZIP-archive with the following structure:

submission.zip
  -> libtglang.so - shared library with interface described in tglang.h (obligatory)
  -> src - folder with the app's source code (obligatory)
  -> train - folder with the source code and datasets used to train the model if any (obligatory)
  -> README.md - short description of the solution (obligatory)
  -> resources - folder with additional files which your library requires to work (please use relative paths to access them) (optional)
  -> deb-packages.txt - a text file with line-break separated debian package names of all external dependencies (optional)

Q: My archive size exceeds 2 GB. A: You may provide a link to the datasets. In this case make sure the 'train' folder contains the source code and a link to your datasets. For further details, please refer to the contest documentation.

Update on the ML Competition, Round 2 Contestants are welcome to use an additional dataset to train their solutions.

🏆 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 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 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.

3rd PLACE – $500 🥉Stone Chicken 🥉Cuddly Quokka 🥉Small Clam 🥉Fair Hawk 🥉Perfect Panda 🥉Happy Wombat 🥉Sacred Gorilla (for their Auction app) 🥉Sturdy Beaver 🥉Noble Crab 🥉Ace Griffin 🥉Desert Eagle 🥉Holy Eagle 🥉Suave Jackal 🥉Merry Gopher 🥉Night Lemur 🥉Mad Mule 🥉Jolly Quokka 🥉Night Unicorn 🥉Sharp Pug 🥉Humble Spider 🥉Eager Butterfly 🥉Quiet Turtle 🥉Earnest Ibex 🥉Magic Squid 🥉Agile Kitten 🥉Bossy Hedgehog 🥉Mindful Hyena 🥉Funky Turkey 🥉Fit Spider 🥉Quiet Scorpion 🥉Dashing Rabbit 🥉Sexy Sloth 🥉Hairy Frog 🥉Funky Mammoth 🥉Merry Snail 🥉Wise Skunk 🥉Rich Lizard 🥉Kingly Falcon 🥉Quirky Chameleon (for their Pictionary app)

🏆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.

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. ___ Based on preliminary testing: 73 entries have been run successfully (including the submissions we’ve had to rebuild). ↓ 19 out of 73 entries with a detection rate lower than 70% have been disqualified for exceeding the 500ms limit per text sample. ↓ 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 ----+-------+--------+------- 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.

Mini App Contest: Submissions We received 186 submissions for the Mini App Contest, containing 206 total Mini Apps. As the judges finalize their evaluations, all participants are welcome to study other submissions, vote and comment on them (you can share your thoughts from a user's perspective or create an issue in the appropriate repository, then post the link as a comment on contest.com). This will become the foundation for community-driven development of an entire ecosystem of Mini Apps after the contest.

🏆 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 recieve 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

App Icon Competition: Submissions We received 252 submissions for the App Icon Competition. Each participant is now required to post demo.png below their entry (you can also provide an optional comment): 1. Go to contest.com, login with the account you've used to submit your work. 2. Open your submission. 3. Attach demo.png. Good luck! P.S. Contestants who failed to post demo.png within the next 24 hours, may not be considered for evaluation.

🏆 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!

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram App Icon Competition. Start the bot, choose “App Icon Competition”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A ZIP-archive with the following structure: submission.zip/ ├─ 📁icon_1/ │ ├─ 📁android/ │ │ ├─ folder_contents │ ├─ 📁ios/ │ │ ├─ folder_contents ├─ 📁icon_2/ ├─ demo.png Where: - submission.zip – is your archive; - icon_1/2/3, etc. – are separate folders for each icon; - android and ios – are platform-specific folders inside the icon folders; – folder_contents – your icons adapted for the relevant platforms. For Android you must additionally follow the provided sample structure. – demo.png – is an image that provides a summary of your work and serves as a brief overview. This can be a single canvas with all icons placed in a grid so anyone can take a quick look. Please avoid sending home screens packed into device mockups, they are not helpful. You will also be required to post your demo.png file on contest.com after the deadline. (An announcement for this will come at a later date) Note: For submissions with only 1 icon, you can directly include android and ios folders in your archive without a separate icon folder. ___ P.S. Entries that fail to comply with the submission guidelines may be disqualified.

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram ML Competition. Start the bot, choose “ML Competition”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A ZIP-archive with the following structure:

submission.zip
  -> src - folder with the app's source code (obligatory)
  -> libtglang.so - library (obligatory)
  -> resources - folder with additional files which your library requires to work (please use relative paths to access them) (optional)
  -> deb-packages.txt - a text file with line-break separated debian package names of all external dependencies (optional)

For details, please refer to the contest documentation.

🎨 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.

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram Mini App Contest. (The new deadline is October 10, 23:59 Dubai time.) Start the bot, choose “Mini App Contest”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository. We will evaluate your entry based on its submitted commit. Any commits after the deadline won't be considered for evaluation. - A message that provides a brief description of your Mini App. As a reference, kindly check the sample provided below. Note: The bot will allow you to submit several Mini Apps one by one. Your repository may stay private until the deadline. ___ Mini App Sample Description @DurgerKingBot – a Mini App that provides a demo flow for ordering fictional food. User is presented with a storefront where they can browse and select food items, then place a sample order. ___ General Requirements - You must submit your entry from the account that owns the bots that host your Mini Apps. - The commit must mention a relevant sample bot and the Mini App with a brief description for each (see “Mini App Sample Description” above.). - Make sure that all your bots and Mini Apps are operational and can be accessed and used by anyone on the production server. - If you submit more than one Mini App, you must ensure each has a separate repository. - A separate bot must be used for each Mini App. Alternatively, you can use t.me/BotUsername/AppName links for each. - Comprehensive and organized documentation (for details, see the contest task) must be placed directly to the repository.

Android Design Contest: Submissions We received 89 submissions for the Android Design Contest. Everyone is welcome to check out the designs on contest.com while our judges evaluate the results: https://contest.com/android-design-2023 We ask each participant to add a comment to their submission with a brief explanation of the structure of their archive, how it is intended to be viewed, as well as of anything else that might need an explanation. Good luck!

🏆 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.

ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Android Design Contest. Start the bot, choose “Android Design Contest”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: - A link to either private or public channel – you must upload all static layouts and videos from your archive to this channel, provide a table of contents. - An archive containing all the resources in accordance with the terms of the contest. Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline.

Clarifications for participants of the Mini App Contest Q: Can I submit my existing Mini App? A: If you do so, please make sure your Mini App fully meets the Contest Guidelines. Q: What do you mean by ”a GitHub repository containing the source code of your example Mini App, built from scratch“? A: This means you have to submit the complete source code (server side included) of your Mini App under BSD, MIT or other free license. Anyone should be able to re-use it later. Q: Do I have to provide a fully functional Mini App or will you build it from the sources? A: You have to provide a working Mini App and make sure it remains operational until 10 days after the contest results are announced. Q: Can I use X? A: You can use any tools, like build tools, lottie renderers, etc. – providing they are properly documented and explained in your step-by-step guide. Q: Can I use UI-frameworks? A: UI-frameworks are allowed in this contest. ____ P.S. Make sure you've made yourself familiar with the Contest Task – most questions we've seen are covered by the Task itself.

🤖 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. --- 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.

🎨 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. ____ @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