Now that the first round is coming to a close I just wanted to say: Good luck in the judging everyone!
Still, a man has to have preferences, here are my favourite 5 (most preferred first) that I hope do well: 1) handyCalc - I love the look of this, I wish I could get my hands on an apk, I hope it's as slick as it looks, if so I'd run it on my desktop using the emulator all day... 2) OpenIntents by Peli et.al. - Even though I don't have the same burning desire to run the applications, no other entry comes closer to the spirit of collaborative applications than the effort to establish a shared set of Intents, and the code to support them. I've been slightly disappointed that the competition has thus far encouraged people to horde their work and this entry really deserves some credit from the judges for pointing in the opposite direction. 3) Android Scan - jsharkey, I promise I'm not a barcode junky, but this application just seems so useful, it's also a great example of the clever re-use of available libraries and services. 4) Dkn Touch - wonderoid, Not especially novel, but the algorithm looks tight and the execution (the video demoing it with cards that you can flip and slide) makes exquisite use of Android's view animation capabilities. It got into 4th place because, of all the applications I've seen, it's the one you really wish was built into the standard Android classes. 5) Slide - hielko & writser, (Very hard to stick to just 5) I'm a reserved Englishman and don't even have a facebook account, but this application looked like it had depth and features that could be useful in lots of ways. I think the choice of using facebook groups for matching people is brilliant, I don't know if that's their original idea, but they seem like great criteria. I think Pocket Journey (biosopher) gets an honourable mention for having the best video. Finally, I was surprised that there weren't more media players on display - is that because the developers feel the need to keep their slick interfaces secret? Oh and a special good luck wish goes to anyone still coding! Tom. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
