🏆 Android Contest, Round 2: Results

We are happy to announce the results of the Android Animations Contest. Meet the winners:

1st PLACE – $8,000
🥇Fit Rhino – Implemented all of the required features except background animations when the device is tilted. Nice job on the Animation Editor and background transitions when returning to the chat list.

2nd PLACE – $6,000
🥈Eager Cat – The app is well-optimized to animate message sending effects on low-performance devices. However, the contestant should have devoted more time to pre-submission testing. While evaluating the app, we faced numerous crashes; for that reason, a penalty of $1,000 has been applied during the final scoring.
Penalties (-$1,000):
– Multiple crashes

🥈Fairy Zebra – This submission features the best-implementation of the Background Animation when the device is tilted – which works great both on low-budget Xiaomi phones and Samsung flagships.

3rd PLACE – $5,000
🥉Sacred Gorilla – In addition to the main task, the contestant has been working on the GIFs sending effect. The submission is affected by some inconsistencies in the design implementation, especially in the Animation Editor.
Penalties (-$200):
– Default package ID.

🥉Dreamy Crab – This is the only submission that includes an attempt to animate the Send button like on the provided mockups.

🥉Gentle Otter – We expected submissions to be better optimized for running on older devices; however, the app is quite solid in other aspects.
Penalties (-$200):
– Default package ID

4th PLACE – $2,000
🎖Modest Dolphin
🎖Desert Falcon
🎖Slim Scorpion
🎖Suave Lion

🎖Gentle Crow
Penalties (-$200):
– Default package ID

🎖Dreamy Eagle
Penalties (-$400):
– Default package ID
– Rebuilding penalty

The following contestants focused on implementing background animations alone and didn't implement any message animations👇

Honorable mentions – $1,500
🏅Cool Hare
🏅Fit Falcon
🏅Sunny Ant

🏅Large Flamingo
Penalties (-$200):
– Default package ID

Detailed comments from our judges for each of the submissions are available on contest.com. Congratulations to the winners!

Stay tuned for the next contest for Android developers starting this summer. The goal will likely be to develop features for the Android X app.