Google Reveal The Top 50 Android Applications (46 Public)

Here’s a rundown of the top 46 Android developer challenge winners who made the final 50. If you’re wondering 4 of the entries opted out of the public list, but im sure we’ll find out about them shortly. We’ve taken the liberty of matching up the domains/websites to go along with this list.

AndroidScan – Jeffrey Sharkey

Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode. http://scan.jsharkey.org/

Beetaun – Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov

Beetaun is a social network around geographical content created by people and for people (from your neighborhood, from your city, from your country, from all over the world).

http://beetaun.com/

BioWallet – Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez

A biometric authentication system for Android. This application features iris recognition and can act as a password safe and provide single sign-on for other Android apps.

BreadCrumbz – Amos Yoffe

BreadCrumbz’ unique approach to navigation enables a new kind of user-created geo-content. Our aim is to develop a platform and a community where people create, store and share geo-content that is meaningful to them with their friends (“find my house”, “where I left my car at the airport”) or with the world (“best mountainbiking route in the area”, “find my cool shop”, “to your hospital’s department of suregery”, etc.).

http://www.bcrumbz.com/

CallACab – Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger

City Slikkers – PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems

Commandro – Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha

Commandro shows where are your friends REALLY are and what are they’re doing at the moment. We use GPS location information in order to make sure that you and your friends have actually reached the planned destinations, and, hence, will display 100% true real-life event and location information with regards to your and your friends.

http://commandro.net/

Cooking Capsules – Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss

Cooking Capsules is the first smart phone utility of it’s kind. Cooking Capsules are for anyone who wants to simplify the process of cooking. Simply “watch” a very short cooking show, “shop” with the grocery list, and “make” using the handy step-by-step recipe directions.

http://www.cookingcapsules.com/

Diggin – Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin

Dyno – Virachat Boondharigaputra

e-ventr – Michael Zitzelsberger

Eco2go – Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam

Em-Radar – Jack Kwok

fingerprint – Robert Mickle

FreeFamilyWatch – Navee Technologies LLC

http://naveetech.com/

goCart – Rylan Barnes

GolfPlay – Inizziativa Networks

GolfPlay has been created as an answer to the high demand existing amongst golf lovers for reliable, accurate and free software. Its objective is to give support to all the real time necessities of a golf player during a game, using GPS location and an online querying site where it is possible to access to their game statistics, tournament creation and a social network to exchange impressions with other users about the sport that links them: golf.

http://www.inizziativa.com/GolfPlay/index.php

gWalk – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze

HandWx – Weathertop Consulting LLC

HandWx is an Android application that will deliver 7-day weather forecasts to your phone.

http://handwx.com/

IMEasy – Yan Shi

Jigsaw – Mikhail Ksenzov

JOYity – Zelfi AG

LifeAware – Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar

Locale – Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan

LReady Emergency Manager – Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen

Marvin – Pontier Laurent

Mobeedo – Sengaro GmbH

Multiple Facets Instant Messenger – Virgil Dobjanschi

MyCloset – Mamoru Tokashiki

PedNav – RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.

Phonebook 2.0 – Voxmobili

PicSay – Eric Wijngaard

PiggyBack – Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit

Pocket Journey – Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz

Rayfarla – Stephen Oldmeadow

Safety Net – Michael DeJadon

SocialMonster – Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng

SplashPlay

Sustain- Keeping Your Social Network Alive – Niraj Swami

SynchroSpot – Shaun Terry

Talkplay – Sung Suh Park

Teradesk – José Augusto Athayde Ferrarini

The Weather Channel for Android – The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.

TuneWiki – TuneWiki Inc.

Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide – Philipp Breuss

Writing Pad – ShapeWriter Inc

Version 1.4 Now Available

A new update of WordPress for Android is now available in Android Market. We’re pleased to introduce version 1.4, which adds some very powerful features! Here’s what’s new:

Post Scheduling

You can now easily set the publish date and time in the app when creating a post or page. The date can be set to the future which will set the post status to ‘Scheduled’ and publish on your blog when the time arrives. You can also edit existing posts and tweak the published date and time if desired.

Post Password

At the bottom of the post editor we’ve added a Post Password field to help protect your content. Simply enter a password here and the post will require that the password be entered for viewing on the blog when published. You can also add or remove a password from published posts as well.

HTTP Authentication Support

Is your self-hosted blog protected with an HTTP Authentication username and password? We’ve added support for entering the Authentication credentials in the blog settings so that you can manage your blog through the app. To access the Authentication settings, add a self-hosted blog to the app and select ‘Optional Settings’ in the setup area.

Additional Changes

We’ve tidied up a few more things in the 1.4 update, including:

Added secure password storage to the local database.

‘Unapproved’ comments now have a yellow tint.

Added ‘Today’ option in stats.

Fixed crash when alert dialog was trying to be shown after the app was closed.

Fixed crash related to large post ID values.

Remember, WordPress for Android is an Open Source project. Most of the features in this release were contributed by volunteer developers in the community. Big thanks to chdorner and jnijhof for their hard work! Get in touch with us on our Developer Blog if you’d like to contribute to the project.

WordPress for Android 1.4 is available in Android Market for free. Download it now!

Version 1.5: Follow your Favorite Blogs

Today we released Version 1.5 of WordPress for Android to the Android Market, which makes it effortless to keep up with your favorite blogs and sites while on the go.

If you’ve connected one of your WordPress.com blogs with the app, you’ll now see a ‘Read’ button at the bottom of your blogs list. Clicking it will display all the latest posts published on the blogs that you follow, along with the option to like or reblog them. You can even follow blogs and sites that aren’t on WordPress.com, as long as they have an RSS feed.

Sweet! How do I add more sites to my reader?

Tap the “Follow” button while viewing any WordPress.com blog (you’ll find it in the top admin bar while logged in) to add it to your reader. To add a site that’s not on WordPress.com, simply enter the URL of the site at the top of your following list and then click ‘Follow’.

Not following any blogs yet? Check out today’s Freshly Pressed to browse some that you might like.

What else is new?

We’ve tweaked a few things here and there in the app, including using the HTML5 video tag for video uploads instead of the outdated QuickTime tag. There are also a handful of bug fixes in Version 1.5 that improve the app’s reliability.

What’s next for WordPress for Android?

We’re excited to let you know that work has already begun on the next major update to WordPress for Android – Version 2.0. It’s going to have a beautiful new look and will be stuffed with awesome new features. For updates on Version 2.0, check out our Developer Blog. And if you have any feedback on Version 1.5 and the new Read feature, be sure to let us know!

Version 2.0: Android Blogging, Re-Imagined

We’re pleased to announce that WordPress for Android 2.0 has been released to Android Market! This version is packed full with new features to make your mobile blogging experience better than ever. Check out the video and read more about what’s new in the update below:

New UI: Action Bar and Dashboard

The Dashboard

Everything you want to do, all in one place. The Dashboard is the first thing you see when launching the app and it provides one-tap access to the most common things you use such as creating a new post or viewing stats. A new comment count ribbon shows you how many unapproved comments you have in your moderation queue. Want to post some media quickly? We added Quick Photo and Video buttons to take you right to the camera so you can shoot the moment and instantly attach it to a new post.

Also new is the Action Bar, which allows you to quickly switch blogs, refresh content or show the Dashboard from wherever you are in the app at the time.

New Post Editor

The Post Editor

The post editor has been revamped, allowing more control over the post content than ever before. A formatting toolbar has been added above the keyboard that allows for easy rich text editing and adding links.  You can now add media content wherever you like and edit the Title, Caption, Placement and Size of images. The editor also is now full screen, so you can see as much of the content as possible while editing.

We’ve also added support for Post Formats, you’ll see a drop down menu in the post editor that allows you to select the appropriate Post Format.

Tablet Support

Got an Android Tablet? We’ve got you covered! We paid special attention to large screen devices in this release. When you’re viewing Posts, Pages and Comments you will see a scrolling list of items on the left, with a detail view on the right. Many other areas of the app have been optimized for tablets including the post editor and stats.

We’ve also added support for the newer 7″ tablets, including the Kindle Fire (app will be available in the Amazon Appstore soon).

More Changes

In addition to these great changes above, here’s what else is new:

Stats chart improvements

Background post uploading

WordPress.com Read feature improvements

Post Status is now displayed in post list.

Reliability improvements and more!

Get Involved

WordPress for Android is an Open Source project. Many people contributed to this release, including Anirudh who participated in the 2011 Google Summer of Code program and worked on the app for his project. We’d also like to extend a big thanks to all of the beta testers who helped test the app out on their devices before the release. If you want to help make the app better, check out our developer blog for more info.

Download

WordPress for Android 2.0 is available in the Android Market.

Android

Android™ delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications.

Open

Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It was built to be truly open. For example, an application can call upon any of the phone’s core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a custom virtual machine that was designed to optimize memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android is open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative mobile applications.

All applications are created equal

Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone’s capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services. With devices built on the Android Platform, users are able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone's homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite photo viewing application to handle the viewing of all photos.

Breaking down application boundaries

Android breaks down the barriers to building new and innovative applications. For example, a developer can combine information from the web with data on an individual’s mobile phone — such as the user’s contacts, calendar, or geographic location — to provide a more relevant user experience. With Android, a developer can build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect.

Fast & easy application development

Android provides access to a wide range of useful libraries and tools that can be used to build rich applications. For example, Android enables developers to obtain the location of the device, and allows devices to communicate with one another enabling rich peer–to–peer social applications. In addition, Android includes a full set of tools that have been built from the ground up alongside the platform providing developers with high productivity and deep insight into their applications.