Android Development Challenge II
Until now it’s been radio silence from out friends at google regarding the 2nd android development challenge. I ran across an interesting blog today at phandroid.com where they were able to dig up some news regarding the next android developer challenge. Google was origianlly slated to communicate time-lines, rules etc for this contest by the end of December 08. The good news is that the 2nd development challenge has not been canceled, only delayed. Here’s what google said:
If you’re not familiar with the android development challenge here’s a summary of the first challenge:
- +1788 developers submitted applications
- +open handset alliance partners picked 50 finalists and each received 25,000 to either pocket or reinvest in their app
- +top 50 finalists were given an opportunity to make a another round of edits and then submitted apps as final
- +open handset alliance partners selected 20 winners! 10 received $100,000 and 10 received $275,000
- +total prize money awarded was $5,000,000
If you look at the number of submissions v. the number of winners you’d have roughly a 3% chance of walking away with any money. The odds weren’t exactly in your favor! Keep in mind 1788 people submitted applications for an operating system that wasn’t even available for sale on a device! And, 100% of development and testing had to be done via your PC! Now that we have more than a million android devices out there and MANY more on there way who knows how many people will submit applications for the 2nd development challenge! Nonetheless, Froogloid isn’t discouraged and we’re always up for a challenge!
