Android Dev Camp Challenge winners.
Picture from Annejan
On january 8th we organised the biggest Android Dev Camp in the world. 250 people participated at the event. During this event we announced a Dev Challenge. Developers had 2,5 weeks time to submit their Android application. In the end we received 22 working Android applications. WHOHHOOOO! We did not expect such a big turnout. I was also a jurymember and saw all the 22 applications. The submitted apps can be categorised in 4 segments: Tools, Loc. based services, Games and Messaging.
Anyway yesterday(Feb. 29th) the winners were announced. All winners got a G1 and will be part of T-Mobile’s advertising campaign around the launch of G1.
1st Prize Metermaid:
Additional prize: Ticket to Silicon Valley
Martin Koel and Alida Roskam
Category: Tool
Usecase: Making parking at parkingmeters easier and quicker.
How does it work: It basically makes composing an SMS for your parkingservice easier by bookmarking.
Uniqueness: Makes use of all existing parkingservices. You can bookmark license plates and locations.
Gigfinder Roeland Landegent and Mark Bekkers:
Mapbased Gigfinder. Uses the GPS function in the phone. Gets gigs from Last.fm. When you find a nice Gig. You can find your way towards it with Google Maps.
Backchannel Eelco Lempsink:
This service blew me away. It uses ZeroConf to set up a wifi chatroom. You just need to enter a name and start chatting in the wifi hotspot you are in. everybody else in the hotspot that has this application open can receives your messages. Eelco just needs to figure out how to position and brand his service
Treasuremytext Paul Stringer:
Tresuremytext saves your sms messages to web automatically. Very handy if you treasure your messages. Watch out that you dont publish your messages accidently on the treasuremytext website. The whole sign-up procedure is still too complicated. Katie was happy with the price 
Nukaart Sander Stefann, Arjen Haayman and Max Dammers
Nukaart shows all articles from nu.nl on a map. It has a great graphical user interface. It already an existing on the web ported to Android
Check Android Market on your G1 for the apps.