Google Android Developer Challenger Winners Announced - 20 Android Challenger Winners

google android developer contest results announced for iphone free Google Android Developer Challenger Contest results have been announced. 10 winners were awarded $275,000 each & another 10 Winners of the Android Developer Challenge were awarded $100,000 award each.

The Android Developer Challenger Contest was open to all application programmers on the Android platform aimed at portable applications for the mobile cell phones.

Android is a complete software pack for developing applications for mobile phones.It includes a mobile OS & applications.

Developers & programmers can download the Android Software Development Kit from Google Android SDK website.

Winners of the Android Challenger Contest varied from Social Networking applications for mobile phones to essential utilities to games. Here is a quick summary of our favorite productivity applications.

Cab4me – developed by experienced software engineers and consultants Konrad and Henning. Both are working in Munich, Germany. cab4me is a mobile app that lets you call a cab from your cell phone at any location worldwide.

CompareEverywhere – developed by Jeff, an active open source programmer. CompareEverywhere is a shopping deal finding application for mobile phones. With the mobile phone’s built in camera it scans the bar code of a product & checks it’s sale price for the best deal. It can compare prices & combine the data with GPS & Google Maps to locate nearby stores selling the product.

PicSay – developed by Eric Wijngaard. PicSay is a photo editor for mobile phones. It enhances pictures taken with the mobile phone camera. It does color correction, highlighting and distortion effects. It also lets you add descriptions & tags to the pictures & post the pictures to blogs, send pictures to emails or share them on websites.

PiggyBack – developed by Christophe Petit Sébastien Petit with additional contribution from Jean-Micher Thériault, Francois Gibold, Raphaël Arzberger. Christophe works as a Platform Software Architect at Michelin’s headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

This is a great application for the coming years & takes on the huge challenge of optimizing logistics with a focus on saving fuel, money & the carbon emission. PiggyBack lets carpooling between drivers & passengers by providing data for time, routes & cost.

ShareYourBoard – developed by Mikhail Ksenzov. This is a collaboration tool for mobile phones. It allows users to share whiteboard images, collaborate remotely with comments & edits & also manage access permissions. Users can share images with your colleagues and friends and manage image access permission.

The Weather Channel for Android – developed by The Weather Channel Interactive Inc. with contributions from Heather Wright, Todd Daniell, Robyn Weeks, Janet Hall, Aaron Stevens, Jon Sodos. It provides interactive maps with customizable weather layers and neighborhood points-of-interest.

Speech-enabled severe weather alerts will actually wake up your device and tell you about severe weather so you can get to safety. You can even share the alert, as well as other weather information, with others in your address book via sms or email.

Marvin – developed by Laurent Pontier a Software Engineer from Paris area, France. Marvin lets users publish useful information to specific places, provide their own input, and rate existing messages.

Marvin is a point-to-point content delivery system to publish pictures and textual messages attached to locations to your spouse, kids and friends from your mobile device to their mobile device.