--- title: Announcing the third Ubuntu app showdown contest! description: Today we announce the launch of our third Ubuntu App Showdown contest! We are excited to bring you yet another engaging developer competition, where the Ubuntu app developer community brings innovative and interesting new apps for Ubuntu on mobile devices. Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using the new Ubunt […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/announcing-the-third-ubuntu-app-showdown-contest?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 26 February 2014 # Announcing the third Ubuntu app showdown contest! [SDK](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/sdk) --- Share the article Today we announce the launch of our third Ubuntu App Showdown contest! We are excited to bring you yet another engaging developer competition, where the Ubuntu app developer community brings innovative and interesting new apps for Ubuntu on mobile devices. Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using the new Ubuntu SDK and Ubuntu platform starting today. Both original apps and ported apps, QML and HTML5, and apps specifically for the Chinese market will qualify for this competition. We have taken a step further with this App Showdown, we have four dedicated categories that you can enter: 1. QML: original apps written in QML or with a combination of QML and JavaScript/C++ 2. HTML5: original apps written using web technologies, be it pure HTML (and CSS/JavaScript) or with platform access using Apache Cordova 3. Ported: apps ported from another platform, regardless of the technology used 4. Chinese apps: apps in this category will have to be original and specific to China and the Chinese culture. They will be judged by two native experts in our jury. Prizes are up for grabs, each category (QML, HTML5, ported) will win a Nexus 7 pre-loaded with Ubuntu. The top two Chinese app winners will receive a Meizu branded device. [Find out more details and to enter the competition](https://canonical.com/blog/href=). Good luck and get developing! We look forward to seeing your apps on Ubuntu. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-sdk-meets-snapcraft) Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap” but also a... [Benjamin Zeller](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjamin-zeller) 28 November 2016 [### Releasing the 4.1.0 Ubuntu SDK IDE](https://canonical.com/blog/releasing-the-4-1-0-ubuntu-sdk-ide) The testing phase took longer than we have expected but finally we are ready. To compensate this delay we have even upgraded the IDE to the most recent 4.1.0 QtCreator. Based... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 29 September 2016 [### Helsinki SDK sprint](https://canonical.com/blog/helsinki-sdk-sprint) We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part... [Femma](https://canonical.com/blog/author/femma) 10 December 2015 [### SDK Convergence Sprint 2015](https://canonical.com/blog/sdk-convergence-sprint-2015) Last week the SDK team gathered in London for a sprint that focused on convergence, which consisted of pulling apart each component and discussing ways in which each would... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 12 June 2015