Android Developer Challenge 2 winners announced!
by George T on Dec 1 2009 at 17:37 
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Hurray! The second Android Developer Challenge has finished. Over the last couple of months Android users used the ADC 2 application to download, use, score and review applications submitted to the ADC 2. I personally reviewed roughly 50 applications or so. Each one of them was unique, exciting and some of them with specs that blow your mind. The overall 3 winners include 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, a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it and a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy.
The first one, SweetDreams, strongly reminds me of one the best Android apps (ever) that won the ADC 1 back in 2008 known as Locale. I guess the whole concept that lies behind these two apps is what makes them more unique than ever.
The second one, named What the Doodle!?, is an addictive game to what I hear. The basic idea is an online pictionary.
And the third overall winner, known as WaveSecure, is as I mentioned above a complete mobile security solution with the following features:
- Track your phone’s location and who is using it.
- Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief.
- Backup all your data.
- Wipe out your data remotely.
- Restore your data May the phone be with you!
Security is definitely one big, never-ending topic that we seem to neglect most of the times lately when it comes to mobile devices. Inevitably we will have to take action there some day soon, I guess.
Other than that there are many excellent applications that won (or not) in all categories. I ‘ve tried a few of them, like FxCamera. Have you? I ‘ll try to check them all out soon.
The full list of the ADC 2 winners is available here.