Telegram X Android Competition, Round 1 Results After many ho | Telegram Contests

Telegram X Android Competition, Round 1 Results

After many hours of testing, we are happy to announce the results of the Telegram X Android Contest. Several Telegram Contest veterans were spotted in the list of participants – 9 out of 11 contestants have previously taken part in Telegram contests for developers. We are also pleased to have several of them earn top places in this round.

Now that Telegram X became open source, the contestants faced the challenge of implementing message reactions from scratch, unable to re-use the existing codebase of other Telegram apps. This was indeed a challenge even for Eager Cat, Dreamy Crab, and Subtle Piranha. These developers won the first and second prizes in a similar Telegram for Android contest back in December.

The judges' rankings for this contest were unanimous, and here are the winners:

II PLACE – $6,000
Eager Cat – has solid overall app quality and beautiful animations, but the entry suffers from several nasty crashes that slightly frustrate user experience. There are also notable discrepancies between this submission and the provided design mockups.
Dreamy Crab – has the highest attention to detail of all entries, the developer even focused on some features that were out of scope for this round, like including support for Premium reactions. However, the submission also has occasional visual issues.

III PLACE – $3,500
Subtle Piranha – this entry could have earned a higher place if it had implemented the required animations and visual effects, but overall a decent solid app that is stable enough to use.

IV PLACE – $1,500
Mad Seal
Busy Raccoon
Huge Chicken

The remaining $5,000 will be distributed between the two 2nd Place entries once we are able to judge their updated submissions (promoting them to 1st Place). We will get in touch with them separately.

More detailed comments from our judges are available for each submission on contest.com. Congratulations to the winners!

P.S. The second stage of the Telegram Android X Competition is starting next week. Stay tuned!