We have selected the 10 winners of the March animations competition.

@Khoroshok
@O_Grinko
@denis_klyuchnikov
@dissolve09
@pototsky_a
@ktolstaia
@daria_khil
@dissolve09
@ssiritsa
@Nastya_Stoyanova

Each of the winners will receive $1,000 from Telegram. Congratulations!

We'll be posting all the animations of the winners in the course of the next week.

We’ve selected the 15 winners of the March design competition. The order in the list below is not important as none of the 15 designs seemed significantly better than the rest.

@grshn
@Niccolo_Makelele
@idanial
@vpznc
@ivanliana
@rakeda
@dmitkolom
@golaktionov
@relictos
@podlbli
@shchuchkin
@edu918
@Mihaylenko_SG
@hsnvrsln
@yakovlevv_design

We will be publishing the designs submitted in the following days, starting with the winners’ works.

Each of the winners will receive $1,000 from Telegram. Congratulations!

To make it even more fun, we've added 8 second places, $800 each:

@nazariosnz
@depoon
@userroot
@Novov
@hudishkin
@anton_pepelyaev
@utkinilia
@taiyo1803

We'll keep rewarding the best contributors. Thanks again for taking part in this contest.

Another winner is @pvashenko. Due to a technical issue, Pavel was not mentioned among the winners published above. To make up for our oversight, we award him with $2000. Congratulations!

The results of the March Android contest have arrived.

Out of the hundreds apps we received for the contest, we aimed to select those that demonstrated the highest speed and performance.

To identify them, we would typically run the 5th graph with four lines (zoomed out, checking / unchecking the red line) on older but popular devices (e.g. Samsung S5, Moto X and Xiaomi Redmi Note 4).

We discarded all the apps that failed to run or had performance issues in these cases. Likewise, we discarded all the apps that displayed each chart on a separate screen, as the contest goal was specifically to show them “on one screen”.

We also had to eliminate all apps that crashed in random cases. As a result, we selected one winner - @thankyou2. The app of this 26 y.o. engineer from St. Petersburg is the only one that runs fast and stable on all our devices and complies with the design guidelines.

@thankyou2 will receive $50,000 from Telegram.

We also have a runner-up – @where_is_s - who will receive $10,000 from Telegram. The app of this 30 y.o. engineer from Novosibirsk has fewer glitches and is almost as fast as @thankyou2’s.

We invite all participants of this contest to take part in the next and final stage of the Chart Coding Contest that starts this Saturday, on the 6th of April. Its prize budget will be another $150,000.

Tomorrow we will continue announcing the winners of the March Contest and sending you feedback on your apps.

Stay tuned – we’ll soon publish the list of Android developers who won the third prize, as well of the winners of the JS and iOS contest.

And some more good news: We are substantially increasing the overall prize budget of the 3 coding contests (Android, JS, iOS) to appreciate the large number of good apps.

Another winner of the design competition is @idanial. Although suggesting new features was not required by the contest rules, we liked @idanial's unconventional approach to the task: