Android Developers Challenge winners!

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Here we have the winners of the Android Developers challenge!

"Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be. All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 of ADC I showed great promise, and these teams have been working intensely for the past several months to polish their apps for the final round.
Similar to round 1 we sent laptops preconfigured with the judging environment, emulator, and all entries to each of our seven judges. In this round, each judge reviewed all 50 applications, took collaborative notes and gave initial scores. Then, all judges met together over conference calls to discuss and debate these applications, finally coming to consensus on which applications should receive $275,000 and which should receive $100,000.
We're pleased to present all of the winners and finalists in our detailed ADC gallery. Peruse and enjoy — there are awesome applications and unique uses of the Android platform. We would like to congratulate the winners and thank all the entrants for their hard work!"


$275,000 Award Recipients




cab4me
Konrad Huebner, Henning Boeger
Ever been looking for a cab? cab4me is the answer. Anywhere. Anytime.





CompareEverywhere
Jeffrey Sharkey
Shop smarter using your phone. Compare prices, read reviews, and connect with local stores.





Ecorio
Jeff Kao, Gary Pong, Robert Lam, Taneem Talukdar
Ecorio automatically tracks your mobile carbon footprint, suggests transit and carpooling
alternatives and lets you stay carbon neutral by offsetting your trips easily.





GoCart
Rylan Barnes
Scan a product's barcode with your phone's camera and view all the best prices online and
at nearby, local stores.





Life360
Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen, Steve Potell
From major natural disasters to little things like your child wandering away at the mall, there
is a lot you might worry about. Life360 can help.





Locale
Carter Jernigan, Clare Bayley, Jasper Lin, Christina Wright
Locale is an advanced settings manager that automatically changes your phone's settings
based on conditions, such as location.





PicSay
Eric Wijngaard
Easy to use image editor that enables you to quickly personalize your pictures and share them
with friends or photo sites.





Softrace
Staffan Kjellberg, Thomas Kjellberg
Turn your workout into a thrilling race and challenge the world in real time.





TuneWiki
TuneWiki Inc.
TuneWiki Social Media Player, is an advanced player, featuring synchronized lyrics for audio
or video, translation, music maps and a social network.





Wertago
Kelvin Cheung,Teresa Ko, Peter Ree, Robert Sarvis, Douglas Young
The mobile application nightlifers have been waiting for. Find the hottest parties in town and
connect with friends and others all night long.




$100,000 Award Recipients



BreadCrumbz
Amos Yoffe

BreadCrumbz offers a unique approach to navigation. What sets it apart is its focus on
picture-based navigation and user-created navigation content.



Cooking Capsules
Mary Ann Cotter, Muthu Ramadoss
Inspiration for novices and chefs alike, Cooking Capsules puts a fresh, elegant and portable
new way to cook in the palm of your hand.

Maverick
Virgil Dobjanschi
Maverick is a multimedia enabled, Google Talk compatible instant messenger and a Google
Blogger publishing tool which runs on the Android Platform.
PebbleBox
Yin Wang, Tao Jin
A location-based information exchange and sharing application, allowing people to collect
and distribute various geo-related information through mobile phones.

PhoneBook 2.0
Voxmobili
PhoneBook 2.0 is a secure, contextual and social address book. Ideally suited for teenagers
willing to share their mood and location, it also helps business people to keep their contacts
secure and up-to-date.

Piggyback
Christophe Petit, Sébastien Petit
Piggyback is a revolutionary real-time carpooling application for mobile phones that helps you
save time and money while reducing your carbon footprint.

Pocket Journey
Anthony Stevens, Rosie Pongracz
Pocket Journey turns your mobile phone into a personal tour guide by connecting you to l
ocation-specific multimedia created by a community of the most professional tour guides
and storytellers worldwide.

Rayfarla
Stephen Oldmeadow
Have fun with music. Play music based games and make music with your phone using a range
of virtual musical instruments.

ShareYourBoard
Mikhail Ksenzov
ShareYourBoard is an Android application for capturing, processing and sharing whiteboard data.

Teradesk e-Storage
José Augusto Ferrarini
Teradeks is an application for Virtual Storage and Remote File Access allowing companies and
individuals to keep their files in the cloud, accessible from anywhere.



Finalists




B4E
Mr. Che, Mr. Happy C.
B4E focuses on information broadcasting and online transactions, creating value for the
society and individuals.



Beetaun
Sergey Gritsyuk, Dmitri Shipilov
Beetaun is a social network application for everyone wishing to share and explore interesting
and extraordinary places and routes in the city they visit or live in.

BioWallet
José Luis Huertas Fernández
Biometric authentication system and security platform that performs user identification based
on something that user is, rather than something that the user knows or owns.

City Slikkers
PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
City Slikkers is a Pervasive Game which takes place in the real-existing city. It is designed to
connect a large number of players through-out the city and lets them organize the city's
metaphorical recapture.

Commandro
Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
Commandro is a universal map-centric application, allowing users to set up and share activities,
places, and map-markers with others, set alerts, and send invitations.

Diggin
Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
Play your music in style and listen to thousands of streaming radio stations. Personalize your
music collection, and your music player as well!

Dyno
Virachat Boondharigaputra
Dyno is an application used to evaluate vehicle performance on the road.

e-ventr
Michael Zitzelsberger
e‐ventr is your personal event organizer and friendship scout for your mobile.

Em-Radar
Jack Kwok
Em-Radar keeps you informed of severe weather and emergencies near your location. Its
Em-Beacon feature helps you stay connected to your family and friends in an emergency.

Fingerpaint
Rob Mickle
Fingerpaint is a collaborative drawing application. Draw by yourself, or together with friends –
anywhere in the world.

FreeFamilyWatch.com
Navee Technologies LLC
Free location-based services helping family to navigate safety risks in daily living through
real-time and risk-preventing measures against crimes, environmental health hazards and
distressing emergencies.

GolfPlay
Inizziativa Networks
Provides support to all real time necessities of a golf player during a game.

gwalk
Klaus ten Hagen, Marko Modsching, Christian Klinger, Rene Scholze
Discover a destination individually by a multimedial gWalk tour that is fully based on personal
preferences including interests, available time and position.

iMap Mobile™
Weathertop Consulting, LLC
iMap Mobile™ builds on WDT's iMap Weather™ multimedia weather platform to provide radar
images, lightning strikes, conditions and forecasts at your location and locations you choose.

IMEasy
Yan Shi
IMEasy is an IM based application designed particularly for touch screen mobile users.

JOYity
Zelfi AG
JOYity is a platform for next generation mobile entertainment applications and provides
a pioneering mixture of real-life adventure games, geocaching and intensive social
networking activities.

LifeAware
Gregory Moore, Aaron O’Brien, Jawad Akhtar
Be aware of your surroundings and the location of your friends and family. Take control of
your social life. LifeAware™ - Where is Your Life?

Marvin
Laurent Pontier
Publish in private, to your peer network or to the world, geolocalized rich messages.
Broadcast personal information feeds on the move using the Marvin Services.

mobeedo
Sengaro GmbH
mobeedo aims to become a comprehensive and uniform system for providing, consuming,
and recording all kinds of information relevant in mobile everyday life.

MyCloset
Mamoru Tokashiki
Manages photographs and information about the fashion items you own, and coordinates
and records your daily outfits.

PedNav
RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
PedNav is a location-aware day planner that allows you to create an itinerary and can
suggest public transit routes as well as provide walking directions.

SafetyNet
Michael DeJadon
SafetyNet is an automated alert system that combines the concept of social networking
along with the latest mobile technologies to help protect our loved ones.

ShapeWriter
ShapeWriter Inc
ShapeWriter is an innovative, easy, fast and fun method of entering text into touch screen
mobile phones. One can write an entire word with a single gesture.

SocialMonster
Tommy Ng, Ben Hui
Stay on top of your social life with SocialMonster and start organizing personal events with
all your contacts in your handset’s phonebook.

SplashPlay
Andreas Ipp, Keith Sturch, Friedger Müffke and Ronan Schwarz
SplashPlay provides an easier method to learn, create and share music. Quickly learn guitar
chords to your favorite songs and share creations with others.

Sustain
Niraj Swami
Sustain is a utility that helps its users naturally and fluidly communicate with their contacts.

SynchroSpot
Shaun Terry
Service featuring location-based personal reminders and geo-specific notes for others. Also
provides for the receipt of special, targeted discounts and offers from nearby businesses.

The Weather Channel for Android
The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.
The Weather Channel for Android is a fully customizable weather application catering to both
weekend planners and serious weather enthusiasts alike.

TokPlay
Sung-Suh Park
TokPlay provides the opportunity of talking to friends, family and others using video and voice
messages, bringing a human touch back to communication.
Wikitude
Philipp Breuss
Wikitude is a mobile travel guide based on location-based Wikipedia content. Points of interest
can be viewed in a map, list, or a cam view.

[Via] Android Developers Blog

[ewdi]

we will be posting a video interview with the goCart team, if you guys have any questions to ask the developer, please post it here

[pedrosimao]

I cant find some of this apps to download on the Market.

Rayfarla for example.

Where can I find it?

[TopDNBass]

Not all of the apps are in the market yet. Many of them waited til jan 09 so they could charge.

[*susan*]

Ugh, it is killing me seeing this thread back at the top again. There are so many of these apps I really want. I hope they open up the market for paid apps soon.

[ultra spikey]

When all these new apps come out, I don't know how i'm going to fit them onto my phone. I might then have to root...

[*susan*]

You should root, it is amazing!!

[mrpandainc]

When these apps do come out though, assume they will release or update to save on the SD card.

[scrannel]

When these apps do come out though, assume they will release or update to save on the SD card.

Fear that TMo will want to dodge the issue of people yanking their SD cards while an app is running from it.

[mrpandainc]

Well cupcake will prob have a force close or safe option you know, they probably had to collaborate about that. lol