The Top 50 Applications

As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We're still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top 50, but in the spirit of releasing early and often, here's a list containing the name of the application and its author(s):

• AndroidScan - Jeffrey Sharkey


• Beetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov


• BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez


• BreadCrumbz - Amos Yoffe


• CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger


• City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems


• Commandro - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha


• 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


• Em-Radar - Jack Kwok


• fingerprint - Robert Mickle


• FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC


• goCart - Rylan Barnes


• GolfPlay - Inizziativa Networks


• gWalk - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze


• HandWx - Weathertop Consulting LLC


• 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


• LReady Emergency Manager - Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen


• Marvin - Pontier Laurent


• Mobeedo - Sengaro GmbH


• Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi


• MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki


• PedNav - RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.


• Phonebook 2.0 - Voxmobili


• PicSay - Eric Wijngaard


• PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit


• Pocket Journey - Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz


• Rayfarla - Stephen Oldmeadow


• Safety Net - Michael DeJadon


• SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng


• SplashPlay


• 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.


• Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Philipp Breuss


• Writing Pad - ShapeWriter Inc

Those of you following along carefully at home (or who bothered to read this far) will notice that there's only 46 in this list. 4 winners opted to continue their efforts in secret and so while we congratulate them too, we can't list them here.

Regardless, congratulations to all those who made it this far!

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Android Developer Challenge: Round I Results are In

The last few weeks were both extremely intense and rewarding. Based on feedback from the judges, it was apparent that large number of applications were compelling, innovative and well implemented. The quality of these entries clearly reflects the creativity and hard work that developers have invested in building their apps.

In addition to developers' participation and contributions, over 100 industry judges around the world spent weeks reviewing these submissions. I want to thank all the developers and judges who have worked incredibly hard over the last few months, making the Android Developer Challenge such a success.

Many of the top submissions took advantage of the geo and social networking capabilities of Android. These applications allow friends to share their personal experiences and favorite content such as vacations, photos, shows, music, cooking recipes, restaurants, and much more as they relate to certain locales. I've also seen applications that connect people during emergency situations and others that allow users to share information on how they can reduce their carbon footprint. One developer even turned a real city block into a playing field where gamers can role-play and chase after villains.

Furthermore, some of these applications provide rich interactive experiences by combining web services and mash-ups to bring together data that's on the web with data that's on the mobile device. One application combined weather, pollen and allergy information in the context of a map that is relevant to a user's location.

Though many applications use a traditional "download" model for data, many also enable users to publish content, such as photos or even voice memos, for others to use on other mobile devices or the web.

This is just a brief snapshot of the many impressive applications I've seen. The 50 highest scoring applications will receive $25,000 each and go on to compete in the final round. We plan to publish a list of these applications as soon as we receive the developers' consent. The real winners, however, are the consumers who will benefit from the work of these talented developers.

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Android Developers Have Risen to the Challenge

I'm thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!

Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting. When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, developers started submitting entries right away but it wasn't until the April 14 deadline approached that the flood really began. The rate of submissions spiked in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, reaching as high as 170+ submissions per hour.

What I find truly amazing is how global the interest in the challenge has been. Developers from the United States submitted one-third of the total applications while the rest came from countries such as Germany, Japan, China, India, Canada, France, UK, and many others. The entries are also very diverse representing many application areas, from games to social-networking applications, to utilities, to productivity and developer tools, and many more. On behalf of the Open Handset Alliance, I want to thank everyone who has submitted entries to the challenge. We look forward to reviewing all of them.

Now that the applications are in, over 100 judges will soon receive judging packets and laptops that we've preloaded with all the submissions, for a consistent, fair environment to judge the submissions. The majority of the judges are from member companies of the Open Handset Alliance, in addition to non-alliance mobile industry experts who have all graciously volunteered their time. I'd like to thank these judges too for all the time they will be putting into this.

In May, we'll be informing the 50 Semi-finalists who will be awarded $25,000 each. Until then, the team and I will have our hands full.

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