🏆 Telegram Android Contest 2024, Round 2

Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on December 21st (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone, even if you didn't join Round 1
Results: December 2024

Telegram is hosting a contest for Android developers to enhance and upgrade the in-chat camera.

THE TASK

Adapt the existing in-chat camera with the camera for Stories, including all its features:
– Collages;
– Dual Camera Mode;
– Front Camera Flash;
– Widgets (for interactive widgets, i.e., reactions or links, your app may just apply a non-interactive entity over the canvas)...

Your implementation must remove any story-related restrictions or controls. Specifically, your app must not impose a limit on video length and should exclude interface controls that are only relevant for stories. Your app must retain the existing in-chat camera interface and flow before user opens the camera (i.e., the preview within the attachment menu).

Contest Requirements:

General
– Your app must provide a consistent and smooth recording experience that aligns with the device's native camera app.
– No third-party UI frameworks are allowed.
– The submission must be consistent with the existing Telegram for Android codebase.
– The app's stability and performance must not be affected with the changes you made.
– The app must be free of significant flaws (including crashes, visual glitches, noticeable element blinking, layout errors, and more).

❗️Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups.

Note:
Submissions that introduce improvements to video recording are likely to receive higher scores in this contest.

Evaluation:
During the evaluation stage, we will review your code and test the submission on a wide range of Android devices.

Winners may be offered a chance to join the 🛫 Telegram Team.

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.

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@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️ Telegram For Android
◾️ Version: 11.5.4
◾️ Build: 5528

Directly downloadable from :

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

What's New:

- optimized chat list and messages with video qualities
- supported selecting multiple bots from reply markup keyboard in bot api
- update media in media viewer when message is edited, supported closing interfaces when deleting chats/posts
- minor fixes
- fix opening links in bubble mode
- crash fixes
- fix double download of hls videos when pressed on download button with auto download disabled, but autoplay is enabled

Blog : -https://telegram.org/blog/affiliate-programs-ai-sticker-search


#Stable #New #Telegram

🔄Previous Version

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@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️ Telegram For Android
◾️ Version: 11.5.5
◾️ Build: 5531

Directly downloadable from :

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

What's New:

- ads placement fixes
- crash fix in video editor, lag fixes

Blog : -https://telegram.org/blog/affiliate-programs-ai-sticker-search


#Stable #New #Telegram

🔄Previous Version

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💡 Stickers have been one of the many innovations that define Telegram. AI-powered search will make discovering them easier than ever 🔭

-@Durov