Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Google announced Android Developer Challenge 2 winners
Overall Winners
 | SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone's location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
Education/Reference Winners
 | Plink Art
Plink Art is an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art. Take a photo of a painting, and the Plink Art servers will try to identify it. You can also browse our database of artwork by keyword or timeline and share your discoveries with friends. |
 | Word Puzzle
The Word Puzzle is designed to provide a fun way to learn basic English words for preschool children. Kids can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card and check achievement with word puzzle. Interesting visual and sound interaction with awarding system helps kids to keep learning. Let kids play with your Android. |
 | Celeste
An educational augmented reality app that displays the Sun, Moon, planets and their paths through the sky onto your camera view. You can navigate through the sky selecting celestial bodies to display interesting information about our solar system. See the exact spot on your horizon where the sun will rise and set. |
Entertainment Winners
 | A World of Photo
Loosely inspired by the traditional "Spin the bottle", A World of Photo is a casual, geographic worldwide multiplayer online game with a social touch. Players spin their phones and will receive a photo from whomever in the world they pointed to. For best play experience, let the app run in the background. |
 | SongDNA
Need any information on a song? Practicing for a big karaoke gig? Music quiz coming up tomorrow? The SongDNA widget allows you to quickly look up your favorite song's detailed information. It includes the lyrics, artist's bio, homepage, highest chart rank and video. Handy when you're training for your next karaoke gig!! |
 | Solo
Solo is a great, easy to play and feature rich pocket guitar for your phone. A must for all guitar enthusiasts! Features include -Huge chord library with 380+ chords & diagrams -Load/save chord layouts -Play along with music on your phone -Overlay music & lyrics from the internet -Various strum modes, including shake strum |
Games: Arcade/Action Winners
 | Speed Forge 3D
Speed Forge: Heavy duty hover vehicles, normally used for mining are now seen in illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys. The rock crushing explosives once used in these machines now serve a different purpose... |
 | Graviturn
Tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles. Infinite levels from very easy to nearly impossible. Compare your performance with other players after each level (online highscore and statistics). |
 | Moto X Mayhem
Jump, lean, and race through seven levels of amazing motorbike action in the best side scrolling bike game! Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land jumps! Or just flick your rider around!! |
Games: Casual/Puzzle Winners
| What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | Totemo
Unloose the spirit. Break the spell. Uncover the mystery hidden between the realms in a unique puzzle game. Storm your brain and relax your mind solving over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks. Play the survival mode for extra challenge and write your name into the on-line leaderboards. http://hexage.net |
 | Mazeness
The goal of the game is rather simple - you need to bring all the balls ( up to 4 per level!) to their goals at the same time, with help of barriers, teleports and holders. It seems simple at first, but it's not that easy. The difficulty is growing steadily from level to level. |
Lifestyle Winners
| SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | SpecTrek
Improve your fitness with this revolutionary augmented reality ghost hunting game. Walk or run around using GPS and your phone's camera to find and catch virtual ghosts. You will experience a new adventure each SpecTrekking session. The game offers statistics, awards, titles, records, and most of all a whole lot of fun! |
 | FoxyRing
FoxyRing makes your phone smarter by analyzing the ambient noise and adjust the ringer volume. Also: - Sleeping hours to silent your phone during the night. - Geolocated ringer profiles, change ringtone or make your phone vibrate only at work! - Widget to silent your phone for a timed period. - Great interface |
Media Winners
 | Buzz Deck
BuzzDeck is the quick and easy way to get all the web content you care about most. Flick through your daily hit of favourite news topics. And get Twitter & Facebook updates alongside. BuzzDeck learns what you like and recommends cool new stuff. Simple, elegant & fast. NB: No landscape mode yet. http://mippin.com/buzzdeck |
 | SPB TV
SPB TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. SPB TV provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee! Requires a reliable 3G or WiFi network connection for proper streaming. Full-featured 60-days trial. |
 | FxCamera
FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects. - ToyCam (Toy Camera Emulator) - Polandroid - Fisheye - Warhol (Andy Warhol-izer) - Normal *this app requires SD card* |
Productivity/Tools Winners
| WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone’s location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
 | Hoccer
Hoccer is your application for ad-hoc data exchange. Use gestures to "throw" your data through the air and let the recipients "catch" it. There is no need for prior exchange of contact details. |
 | Tasker
Tasker let's you link any Task (action set) to the Contexts (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it should run. Send an SMS at 3:15 Monday, make per-app settings or locks, map camera button to a menu, launch music app on headphone insert, timelapse photos, encrypt on-the-fly, the list is endless! |
Social Networking Winners
 | Ce:real - Everyday trends
Ce:real, What's happening in this world? Are you curious about real world? How about North Pole or an edge of Africa? Also, it can be your neighborhood. It is offering to you hot photo stories with Twitter trends keyword which has speed of lights. Enjoy millions of happenings in real world and you participate in it as well. |
 | SocialMuse
Check out what users on the other side of the world are listening to! Find people with similar musical taste, or just explore the world through music. Browse other users' music libraries, listen to previews of their songs, and buy them if you like them. Check out their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Last.fm. |
 | SpotMessage
SpotMessage is a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be notified when the recipient arrives at the spot. SpotMsg finds various uses; as an alarm reminding you of a task at a certain spot or for sending your friend a surprise message on his or her arrival. |
Travel Winners
 | Trip Journal
Trip Journal is the ultimate trip tracking and sharing solution currently available on Android powered Smartphones. Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places you are visiting. GPS route tracking, record waypoints, photos & notes, trip statistics, KMZ & Picasa exports, incorporated Google Maps. |
 | iNap: Arrival Alert
Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick powernap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early... Using your phone's GPS it will determine where you are, and wake you when you are close to your destination! |
 | Car Locator
Save your location whenever you park, and Car Locator will navigate you back to your car should you ever have trouble finding it. - Points in direction of your car using GPS and compass - Radar view, map view, and split view - Parking timer alarm GPS and compass must be enabled. This free version expires after 25 runs. |
Misc Winners
 | Rhythm Guitar
Plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar. Strum and pick chords, make new chords, string them together to create songs, transpose songs to fit your vocal range. Great for songwriting, chord reference, learning radio hits, or even plugging into speakers and pedals. |
 | Andrometer
Andrometer allows you to measure the approximate distance from you to an object that you can see. Uses GPS, accelerometer and geomagnetic sensor. Tips: - Keep as steady as possible - The further you walk, the more accurate the measurement - Must be outdoors with clear view of sky - Works best under 1 km |
 | Calton Hill GPSCaddy
GPSCaddy allows golfers to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS or in the comfort of home using satellite imagery. Then, when they are playing the course, it uses GPS to tell them exactly how far they are from the significant features of the hole they are playing (green, bunkers, etc). |
Posted by David Cao on Thu, Jul 09, 2009
With new Google’s new announcement of Chrome OS for netbooks, many which hoped Android to move this space disappointed deeply. However, that is not to say Android’s future can only be limited to mobile devices. Right now, embedded world is dominated by Windows Mobile and Linux. Android have great future in this field, like automobile control panels, TV control box, kitech panels and so on.
With more powerful but cheaper CPUs, embedded systems not have the opportunites which never so big. Plus, with now more powerful and popular Android OS, it is a new generation of embedded world. Lets roll!
-David
Posted by D c on Wed, May 13, 2009
ExtendLogic CEO David Cao gave speech about iPhone 3.0 VS Android 1.5 at FountainBlue meeting of “Mobile Applications: Hot Technologies and Business Models” on 11th May.
Below are some notes quoted from FountainBlue Meeting Summary(The notes below are copyrighted by FountainBlue in 2006-09 and all rights are reserved.
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“There has been phenomenal progress over the past year or two on the mobile
application business, from the paradigm-shifting emergence of the iPhone and
all the touch-screen and user interface functionality it enables, to new
business model options opened up through Apple’s approach to iPhone
application sales, to the emergence of cloud computing and its implications
for mobile applications, to the ongoing advances in bandwidth, developer
communities, and technology in general.
In thinking about mobile application technology development, consider the
following factors:
* There are choke points between the mobile device and the base station and also between the base station and the cloud, and therefore opportunities for developers and providers to address real market needs.
* The network bandwidth constraints caused by pipeline and sharing issues are being addressed with technology advancements, so bandwidth will soon no longer be as much of a barrier for mobile applications.
Entrepreneurs should consider the implications of this for applications and markets. Which bandwidth-intensive applications would this make possible?
* With that said, bandwidth-intensive applications such as video would be better suited for countries such as Japan and Korea and parts of Europe.
In the US, there are many inconsistencies where different areas have different levels of network access. Consider these factors as you strategize about your mobile application business model and markets.
* With 70% of the iPhone app revenues going to developers and 30% to Apple, Apple’s game-changing approach to selling apps has carriers thinking creatively and scrambling to see how they can get their share of the $1B plus market. You will see cell phone manufacturers, providers, and others experimenting with their own twists to the new business models. The big players such as Google’s Android, Apple’s iPhone, the open source Symbian option, etc., will likely dominate, but the game is still in play and Palm’s PRE, for example, may surprise us!
* There will be an explosion of new applications as more iPhones and other similar devices get into the hands of customers. Costs-per-app, which have gone down from around $6 each to around $1 each, may still trend down, but the volume of users will continue to make this a fertile opportunity for the right applications, developers, organizations, and providers, like Apple.
The panel advised on some hot opportunities ahead in the mobile application space:
* The touch screen revolution initialized with the iPhone will open up new possibilities for mobile applications with richer user interface capabilities. Consider not only how your application can take advantage of what’s happening in this space, but also the broader question of how are you interacting with your phone now and how COULD you be interacting with your phone with this new functionality?
* Flash applications, especially for Location Based Services, will be hot.
* Gaming will be hot, perhaps games which allow interactivity between players.
* Special buttons may appear on devices which make it easier to play games – perhaps a joystick for example.
* The techno-philic tendencies, health consciousness, and financial security of the aging boomers population may trigger the development of hand-held devices for medical diagnostics
Resources:
* Operators Band Together for New Standards Initiative, By Teresa von Fuchs, WirelessWeek – July 01, 2008
http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=161094
* Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup
(http://twitter.com/sv_android), http://meetup.com/silicon-valley-android
* iPhone for Business Meetup (http://twitter.com/iPhoneBiz),
http://www.meetup.com/iPhone-for-Business/
* David Cao’s blog, with information on IPhone 3.0. VS. Android 1.5
http://mlogy.com/category/android-iphone/
* David Cao’s LinkedIn discussion regarding iPhone 3.0 VS. Android 1.5,
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/wireless/TCH_WIR/472868-6565911
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What are your opinions regarding iPhone 3.0 VS Android 1.5?