Google Reveal The Top 50 Android Applications (46 Public)
Here’s a rundown of the top 46 Android developer challenge winners who made the final 50. If you’re wondering 4 of the entries opted out of the public list, but im sure we’ll find out about them shortly. We’ve taken the liberty of matching up the domains/websites to go along with this list, if we’ve missed yours feel free to drop us a note in the comments.
Alternatively if you’re looking for a home to publish updates and releases for your Android apps why not drop us a line!
AndroidScan – Jeffrey Sharkey
Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode. http://scan.jsharkey.org/
Beetaun – Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
Beetaun is a 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).
BioWallet – Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
A biometric authentication system for Android. This application features iris recognition and can act as a password safe and provide single sign-on for other Android apps.
BreadCrumbz – Amos Yoffe
BreadCrumbz’ unique approach to navigation enables a new kind of user-created geo-content. Our aim is to develop a platform and a community where people create, store and share geo-content that is meaningful to them with their friends (“find my house”, “where I left my car at the airport”) or with the world (“best mountainbiking route in the area”, “find my cool shop”, “to your hospital’s department of suregery”, etc.).
CallACab – Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
City Slikkers – PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
Commandro – Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
Commandro shows where are your friends REALLY are and what are they’re doing at the moment. We use GPS location information in order to make sure that you and your friends have actually reached the planned destinations, and, hence, will display 100% true real-life event and location information with regards to your and your friends.
Cooking Capsules – Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
Cooking Capsules is the first smart phone utility of it’s kind. Cooking Capsules are for anyone who wants to simplify the process of cooking. Simply “watch” a very short cooking show, “shop” with the grocery list, and “make” using the handy step-by-step recipe directions.
http://www.cookingcapsules.com/
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
GolfPlay has been created as an answer to the high demand existing amongst golf lovers for reliable, accurate and free software. Its objective is to 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.
http://www.inizziativa.com/GolfPlay/index.php
gWalk – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze
HandWx – Weathertop Consulting LLC
HandWx is an Android application that will deliver 7-day weather forecasts to your phone.
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
[via Google Android Blog]
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:02 am
If Enkin isn’t one of the missing 4 then an Android phone isn’t worth getting.
But I’ll admit, lots of good apps there, except for the lack of GBA/SNES/MAME emulators.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
How about an android magazine ..Iphone have product support mags and new software support for it’s phone..
December 6th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Great idea…I agree.. Come on chaps. How about an Android mag???
December 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yes, agreed. An Android magazine would really take off, I think and also engender more development of open source applications. I think we need to have one. Editors, can you seriously look into this please. — Thanks, Gaurav
May 10th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
The G1 answers and info on the G1 are always good but sorry the look and feel of your website is very confusing! I know one need to make money with adverising but please redign…
Sorry I really try not to say that but your site does have great info. Please let me know if I’m the only one complaining about that…
June 30th, 2009 at 2:53 am
Super List is an android based mobile/web to do list application used to record your tasks anywhere and anytime.
You can choose to sync your tasks to our server and then you can work with them on our website by your laptop. Which means you can also write the list at home on our site by your computer if you do not like to type too much on a mobile device. And then get the entire list from server to your phone after leaving home.
November 15th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Just finding out a little bit more about android. Sounds superb. I am getting a new phone next week. Have always been a Windows Mobile user as OS for ever but considering seriously changing to a device with android as platform. The one thing that would define this: Is there a solid android APP at this moment that would reliably turn my device into a modem for my windows vista lap top to conect to the web? I have used an APP in a WM6.1 unlimited data plan 3G device that does that flawlessly without the carrier knowing. Could you please help me out and let me know if such an APP exists in android market? Regards from MEXICOOOO.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hi!. Thanks a bunch for the blog. I’ve been digging around looking some info up for shool, but there is so much out there. Yahoo lead me here – good for you i guess! Keep up the good work. I will be popping back over in a few days to see if there is updated posts.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:05 am
@Nes – I would totally get behind an Android magazine. There’s plenty of precedence with multiple mags for iPhone owners.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
A quick list of my best android apps for the droid
February 4th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Locale used to be a great application. It was a winner of the Google Dev Challenge.
The devs then decided to charge an outrageous amount for it and force all users to upgrade to the paid version locking the settings in a state that couldn’t be changed if you refused. Greedy and thuggish.
Alternatives are Settings Profiles and Timeriffic.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Gas Detective: Checkout this new Android app
February 18th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon this blog and I wanted to say that I have really learned alot from reading your blog posts. I will subscribe to follow if you write any updates.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:06 pm
hi,
i am currently doing my project on android.
i want to know that where are the files which contain language and the menu options.
which are these files.
I want to know to to add add Arabic language or Urdu on Android.
please give a complete reply.
March 18th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Who says that nothing top-notch is ever for free? Here are some Google Android Apps that are definite must-haves – but won’t cost you a dime.
4 Most Useful Google Android Apps – for Free!
March 18th, 2010 at 10:57 am
How might we apply this to a personalized existence?
March 29th, 2010 at 3:00 am
SOME BIG BROTHER SHIT YOU WOULD BE STUPID TO SUBMIT YOU STUPID PUPPY.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Android Applications for Free, Downloads Free.
April 30th, 2010 at 11:21 am
I have the g1. It won’t let mw download the adobe flash player. Help please!!!
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
Can anyone please suggest me any application which i can develop in android??
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm
hi piyush
if you know little bit about the redering structure of android …Then you try to make complex scripts working on it.Integrate pango or other plugins which ll give support to worlds complex languages to work on Android phone
June 14th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Very good list.
Thanks
June 24th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Hi there. I obviously need assistance getting started. Would somebody reply to this and drop me an email.I Will pay for private tuition!
June 28th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
is there an ap for the new garmin phone that will open your garage door?
July 1st, 2010 at 12:26 am
Don’t click on the GolfPlay website, it tried to give my computer a virus.
July 6th, 2010 at 5:22 am
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it .. The marker and will be back to try a little later ..
July 8th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
How does this list manage to not have ANY of my 3 fav’s: Google Goggles, My911, or Craigslist Checker!
July 14th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Hi just believed i would tell you something.. This is twice now i’ve landed on your blog in the last 3 weeks hunting for totally unrelated points. Spooky or what?
July 14th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Why doesn’t someone come up with an android app that mirrors what is available in the PALM OS like decent contact software with user designated categories. I can’t do half what I did with my Palm.
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Hey… really like your blog! I am always looking for new cycling and mountain biking blogs to link to. Keep the pedals spinning
July 31st, 2010 at 6:47 am
Keep up the work!
August 11th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Altogether, its an excellent post, but you might have spent a littlemore time with it. but a good post
August 17th, 2010 at 6:09 am
I want to learn basic things of android plz help me out
August 17th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
They are missing Parallel Kingdom. It’s a must have for people on the go. It uses you real world location to place you in the game.
Use referral code SDMUB… Good luck!
August 18th, 2010 at 10:00 am
I tried parallel kingdown with that SDMUB referral code. it works. It’s taking a bit of time to learn, but fun people.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
They missed out on NetGenie. my phone’s useless without it