Google named the Winners of Android Mobile Apps Contest
To promote its Android mobile platform, Google organized a contest called “Android Developer Challenge “. Developers submitted their apps and a panel of Android experts, mostly Google employees, then determined via two rounds of judging the following as the top apps.
The top 3 winners in each category earn $100,000, $50,000 and $25,000 respectively. The first place overall winner got an additional $150,000, the second place got an additional $50,000, and the third place got an additional $25,000. The apps are currently available on the Android Market.
The top overall prizes for this year’s Android Developer Challenge went to:
Overall
1. Sweet Dreams – Changes your phone status to avoid late night phone calls
2. What is the Doodle!? – An online multiplayer game to guess what someone drew.
3. WaveSecure – Secures a phone device, data, and sets privacy control.
Education/Reference
1. Plink Art – Snap a photo of a painting and the app will identify it.
2. Word Puzzle – Teaches basic English words to preschoolers.
3. Celeste – Augmented reality app that tracks sun, moon, and star movements across the sky with your phone.
Entertainment
1. A World of Photo – Spin your phone and a random photo will be displayed based on the direction the phone is pointing.
2. SongDNA – Shows detailed information about song, such as lyrics, artist information, and video.
3. Solo – Displays guitar chords, shows strum models, and displays song lyrics with live music.
Arcade and Action Games
1. Speed Forge 3D – Racing game with heavy duty hover vehicles in 3D.
2. Graviturn – Tilt and move your phone to push red circles off the board while leaving green circles.
3. Moto X Mayhem – Motorbike racing side-scrolling game.
Casual and Puzzle Games
1. What the Doodle!? – An online multiplayer game to guess what someone drew.
2. Totemo – Unique puzzle game to match colors and combinations.
3. Mazeness – Move balls by balancing the phone.
Lifestyle
1. SweetDreams – Changes your phone status to avoid late night phone calls and save battery power.
2. SpecTrek – Augmented reality game to chase after virtual ghosts in your neighborhood via GPS.
3. FoxyRing – Analyzes ambient noise level to adjust your phone ringtone volume accordingly.
Media Winners
1. Buzz Deck – Collects website content, such as news, Twitter and Facebook updates, and presents it in a format that you can flick.
2. SPB TV – Displays internet television channels from around the world without subscription fees.
3. FxCamera – Adds special effects like fisheye lens to phone device cameras.
Productivity Tools
1. WaveSecure – Secures a phone device, data, and sets privacy control.
2. Hoccer – Sets up ad-hoc networks to send and receive data with no hassle.
3. Tasker – Automate a list of tasks, like send SMS, that can be completed at a designated time.
Social Networking
1. Ce:real – Collects the latest news stories and Twitter trends from around the world.
2. SocialMuse – Browse other people’s music libraries and listen to their favorite songs.
3. SpotMessage – Send message that can only be read if the receipient is at a particular location.
Travel
1. Trip Journal – Track your trip via GPS, record waypoints, send photos and notes, and store trip statistics.
2. iNap: Arrival Alert – Reminds you when to wake up to get off trains or buses.
3. Car Locator – Stores your parked car’s location and navigates you back to it.
Miscellaneous
1. Rhythm Guitar – A guitar simulator to create songs.
2. Andrometer – Measures approximate distances between the phone device and objects nearby via GPS, accelerometer, and geomagnetic sensors.
3. Calton Hill GPSCaddy – Maps out golf courses via GPS to find distances and features.
[Via BusinessInsider]
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