Android Developer Challenge - round I winners
Android Developer Challenge - round I winners
Android is a mobile device platform coming from Google and backed by Open Handset Alliance. As of May 2008, there are still not Android devices available for purchase, although some have been demoed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this March.
In an attempt to bootstrap creation of a developer community, Google has launched Android Developer Challenge in November 2007, when this mobile device platform has been seen by the general public for the first time. This move has generated a significant interest in the blogosphere, as well as some criticism as far as the Android SDK was concerned, especially for its first, M3 release. In the round I of the contest which has been open until April 14, 2008, a solid number of 1788 entries have been accumulated, 50 best submissions have been selected. Each of the round I winners has received $25kUS which is a nice amount to boostrap the new business. All of 50 winners are participating in round II for additional ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards. Pretty nice?
In a smart and “don’t be evil” manner, Google has not announced the winners and delegated it to respective Android application developers to spread the buzz and promote the Android platform.
Official list should appears online today. In the meantime, I’ll post some winner entries whose authors chose to brag about their success. After respective applications become available, I might as well post some reviews of the most promising ones.
In the alphabetical list that follows you’ll notice there
- Android Scan - Jeffrey Sharkey - automatic barcode recognition and interface to review and auctions web sites
- Beetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
- BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez - biometric authentication system
- BreadCrumbz - Amos Yoffe
- CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
- City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems - location based game
- Commandro - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha - track where your friends are located
- Cooking Capsules - Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
- Diggin - Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
- Dyno - Virachat Boondharigaputra
- e-ventr - Michael Zitzelsberger
- Eco2go - Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam - tracks your trips and suggests transportation alternatives to reduce your carbon footprint
- Em-Radar - Jack Kwok - weather emergency alerts
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Fingerprint - Robert Mickle - collaborative sketching and painting
- FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC
- goCart - Rylan Barnes
- GolfPlay - Inizziativa Networks - support for golf players
- gWalk - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze
- HandWx - Weathertop Consulting LLC - location based weather forecast (news article about HandWx)
- IMEasy - Yan Shi
- Jigsaw - Mikhail Ksenzov
- JOYity - Zelfi AG
- LifeAware - Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar
- Locale - Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan - dynamic device settings manager (CNN Money and TechCrunch wrote about this team of MIT students)
- LReady Emergency Manager - Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen
- Marvin - Pontier Laurent
- Mobeedo - Sengaro GmbH - mobile search engine
- Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi
- MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki
- PedNav - RouteMe2 Technologies Inc. - trip planner
- Phonebook 2.0 - Voxmobili
- PicSay - Eric Wijngaard
- PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit
- Pocket Journey - Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz - interactive pocket city guide
- Rayfarla - Stephen Oldmeadow
- Safety Net - Michael DeJadon
- SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng
- SplashPlay - guitar teacher
- Sustain- Keeping Your Social Network Alive - Niraj Swami
- SynchroSpot - Shaun Terry
- Talkplay - Sung Suh Park
- Teradesk - José Augusto Athayde Ferrarini
- The Weather Channel for Android - The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.
- TuneWiki - TuneWiki Inc. - lyrics downloaded and awailable while a music tune is being played
- Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Philipp Breuss - suggests points of interest based on location
- Writing Pad - ShapeWriter Inc
I’m taking the liberty of listing another entry which has not been published.
Mobeegal.in - location based search engine about which I found out via Intellibitz@Twitter.
If you have more details on any of the entries - let me know via Twitter.
Cheers!
Shonzilla
