Google held an Android Developers Challenge and handed out lots of prizes shortly after the Android OS was launched. Google is now gearing up for the next developers challenge that will offer $2 million in prizes to winners.
The second challenge has a different format than the original had and the Android community will play a role in picking winners. Starting in late August a voting application will be published on the Android Market that will let users sample submissions for the contest.
The users will then be able to vote for the best application and there will be 200 finalists selected in ten categories. The original contest had only 50 finalists. The voters will pick the top 20 apps in each category and then a second round of voting will start in October with users using the voting program to score the finalists. Google judges will get 55% of the final vote and the community will get 45% of the final vote to determine the winners.
[via CNET
Google stated that they'd have the official rules up by late June, but apparently "late June" in Googleworld differs from the "late June" in mere mortal world.
It does stuff.
the apps that i have right now DONT DO STUFF!!
the apps that i have right now DONT DO STUFF!!
Actually I don't like talking about it because it's such a (relatively) simple idea that I'm surprised nobody has done it already. There are a few applications that incorporate some ideas but not a single one that does all of them, and it's really disappointing to not see people go the extra few steps.
I get excited because I know I'll be using it on a nearly daily basis (like most of the applications I write) but it's really nothing revolutionary.
You can PM me if you really want to know.
so you should make a super awesome incredible home replacement like sense but even better!
devs should team up (like the devs or ROMs are doing on XDA) and make an awesome app
so you should make a super awesome incredible home replacement like sense but even better!
devs should team up (like the devs or ROMs are doing on XDA) and make an awesome app
Apparently the people that wrote Google Places like to keep data all to themselves because they don't have a published API. Luckily Scythe is planning on doing this for me and anyone else that wants to make use of "his" data in their own applications.
That should win my vote....