Android Top 50, Links and Descriptions

May 13, 2008 in Android, Industry News

Google has announced the 50 Winners of Android Developer Challenge Round 1. Well… okay, we lied. They only announced 46 because 4 of the lucky 50 wanted their applications kept secret. Those buggers!

Here is the announcement form Google: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-50-applications.html

But below, we’ve published a more exhaustive list from Phandroid.com that has links and descriptions for most of the winning applications:

AndroidScan - Use your phone to scan a barcode, get pricing information from dozens of stores, product reviews and more. Never make a bad purchase again! (by Jeffrey Sharkey)

Beetaun - Social network around geographical content created by people and for people (from your neighborhood, from your city, from your country, from all over the world). By Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov

BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez

BreadCrumbz -Navigate your route using pictures instead of a map (there’s also a map, if you like). Easily record routes using your smartphone. Share them with your friends, share them with the world. By Amos Yoffe

CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger

City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems

Commandro - Commandro shows where are your friends REALLY are and what they’re doing at the moment. Using GPS location information, it will display 100% true real-life event and location information with regards to you and your friends. By Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha.

Cooking Capsules -Simply “watch” a very short cooking show, “shop” with the grocery list, and “make” using the handy step-by-step recipe directions. If you are out of your usual neighborhood you can use the ‘find nearest market’ gps feature. If your friend is stopping at the market, simply hit the ’send to friend’ button to text your list to them. By Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss

Diggin - Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin

Dyno - Virachat Boondharigaputra

e-ventr - Michael Zitzelsberger

Eco2go - Reduce your carbon footprint. Eco2go finds and suggests public transit alternatives for your trips - right on your phone. By Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam

Em-Radar - Jack Kwok

fingerprint - Robert Mickle

FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC

goCart - Rylan Barnes

GolfPlay - give support to all the real time necessities of a golf player during a game, using GPS location and an online querying site where it is possible to access to their game statistics, tournament creation and a social network to exchange impressions with other users about the sport that links them: golf. By Inizziativa Networks

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

HandWx - Delivers 7-Day weather forecasts to your phone. By Weathertop Consulting LLC.

IMEasy - Yan Shi

Jigsaw - Mikhail Ksenzov

JOYity - Coming soon. By Zelfi AG.

LifeAware - Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar

Locale - Locale is one of 7 Android applications submitted by MIT students. It enables you to set up location- and time-based profiles for your phone, so you can make it shut up when you’re at work, forward calls to your landline when you’re at home. Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan.

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

Marvin - Marvin allows you to publish and browse geo-localized objects around you. Objects can be static or move by themselves and follow you. You publish and browse where you are, based on your current location or where you virtually are on the map. By Pontier Laurent.

Mobeedo - Mobile Search. By Sengaro GmbH.

Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi

MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki

PedNav - an application that helps you plan your activities efficiently when moving around and interacting with an urban environment. Like a good personal assistant, PedNav first inquires about your general plans for the day. By RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.

Phonebook 2.0 - Coming soon. By Voxmobili.

PicSay - Eric Wijngaard

PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit

Pocket Journey - connects your location to the voices of a global community of artists, historians, architects, musician, comedians, and others so you can quickly know everything about anywhere. By Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz.

Rayfarla - Rayfarla turns your phone into a musical instrument as well as providing a variety of mini games that are music related. I’m not saying too much about Rayfarla at the moment as I’m now in competition with 49 other semifinalists but suffice to say there will be some interesting twists when it is finally released on hardware. By Stephen Oldmeadow.

Safety Net - Michael DeJadon

SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng

SplashPlay - SplashPlay offers the next generation in musical tuition and learning to play the guitar just got a whole lot easier. Simply attach the pod and light panel to your guitar and start strumming to your favourite songs in minutes. Songs are sent to the pod from a mobile phone or computer using a USB or Bluetooth connection, giving total portability. Other features include a guitar tuner, guitar metronome and a hands free, Bluetooth foot pedal. The product will provide an easy, portable and fun method of learning music.

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 - Our goal is to have the lyrics always on, always available, always synchronized to music - on any device that can play music back and connect to the internet. By TuneWiki Inc.

Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Find points of interest based on your current location. By Philipp Breuss.

Writing Pad - ShapeWriter is an innovative, original, fun, and highly efficient method of entering text into touch screen mobile phones. ShapeWriter lets the user to simply draw a continuous stroke from letter to letter on a soft keyboard and lift to complete the word. The resulting trace is recognized as the intended word. For example: to write the word “fun”, land the pen (or mouse cursor) on the F key, drag to the U key, continue to the N key and lift up the pen. ShapeWriter recognizes the curso trace F-U-N as the word “fun”.By ShapeWriter Inc.