Google announces Android Developer Challenge round 1 winners

The first round of the Android Developer Challenge is over and Google has announced the 50 winners. Well, 46 of them, anyway – the remaining 4 have opted to keep their applications secret.

Each of the 50 winners from this round will receive $25,000 and go on to compete in the final round, where ten $275,000 and ten $100,000 prizes are up for grabs. Round 2 kicks of in the Summer, when Android-powered handsets should be available. There were 1,788 entrants and each application was rated by four judges – Google used 125 judges from its Open Handset Alliance partners in total.

There’s a full list of the round one winners below, but Gizmodo has also picked its five favourites from the list and gone into a little more detai for each. The image above, incidentally, is for AndroidScan – an application that scans product barcodes using a handset's digital camera and uses the information to search online retailers for the best price.

• AndroidScan – Jeffrey Sharkey
• Beetaun – Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
• BioWallet – Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
• BreadCrumbz – Amos Yoffe
• CallACab – Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
• City Slikkers – PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
• Commandro – Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
• Cooking Capsules – Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
• Diggin – Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
• Dyno – Virachat Boondharigaputra
• e–ventr – Michael Zitzelsberger
• Eco2go – Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam
• Em–Radar – Jack Kwok
• fingerprint – Robert Mickle
• FreeFamilyWatch – Navee Technologies LLC
• goCart – Rylan Barnes
• GolfPlay – Inizziativa Networks
• gWalk – Prof. Dr.–Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze
• HandWx – Weathertop Consulting LLC
• IMEasy – Yan Shi
• Jigsaw – Mikhail Ksenzov
• JOYity – Zelfi AG
• LifeAware – Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar
• Locale – Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan
• LReady Emergency Manager – Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen
• Marvin – Pontier Laurent
• Mobeedo – Sengaro GmbH
• Multiple Facets Instant Messenger – Virgil Dobjanschi
• MyCloset – Mamoru Tokashiki
• PedNav – RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
• Phonebook 2.0 – Voxmobili
• PicSay – Eric Wijngaard
• PiggyBack – Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit
• Pocket Journey – Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz
• Rayfarla – Stephen Oldmeadow
• Safety Net – Michael DeJadon
• SocialMonster – Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng
• SplashPlay
• 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 – TuneWiki Inc.
• Wikitude: the Mobile Travel Guide – Philipp Breuss
• Writing Pad – ShapeWriter Inc

[ Google Android Blog]