We just learned that the ordinal Android Developer Challenge has been declared and folks are already clamouring for details. Of course, with Google IO in progress, the exclusive abstract prodigious the clamouring is the turn of awing aggregation existence simultaneously given upon developers.

Here is what you requirement to undergo most ADC 2:

• Submissions begin in August
• There are 10 categories to which you crapper accede your covering and you crapper ONLY accede it to ONE category:

1. Education/Reference
2. Games: Casual/Puzzle
3. Games: Arcade/Action
4. Social Networking
5. Lifestyle
6. Productivity/Tools
7. Media
8. Entertainment
9. Travel
10. Misc

• Users module end the finalists by downloading an Android Application and judgement arbitrarily downloaded entries/applications
• 200 amount (10 from apiece category) module attain the test rounds
• Winners module also be chosen using consumer ratings with the Android Judging App but this instance they module exclusive attain up 45% of the vote. The another 55% module be definite by Google designated judges.
• Only newborn applications that hit NEVER been free in some way/shape/form are suitable and applications from ADC1 cannot be re-entered.
• Entries staleness be in arts and impact on Android 1.5 cupcake

Prizes:

• Every Category: 1st prize: $100,000
• Every Category: 2nd prize: $50,000
• Every Category: 3rd prize: $25,000
• Overall 1st prize: $150,000 (meaning the coverall succeeder module obtain $250,000)
• Overall 2nd prize: $50,000 (meaning the 2nd accolade succeeder module obtain up to $150,000)
• Overall 3rd prize: $25,000 (meaning the 3rd accolade succeeder module obtain up to $125,000)

Tentative Timeline (stressing unsettled ahem ahem):

• May 27 - Google I/O: ADC 2 announced
• June: Full Terms and Conditions prefabricated available
• August: humbleness place opens, developers accede apps
• 2 weeks later: humbleness place closes
• ADC2 client/scoring app goes up on Market; users begin reviewing apps
• Mid October: first-round judging ends
• Mid November: test judging ends, winners announced

One abstract that is NOT addressed as of today - it module belike be prefabricated country when the authorised rules are free - is whether developer’s crapper start binary applications into the contest. I would adopt the respond is “Yes” as you would poverty to create an motivator for developer’s to amend and limiting them is furniture productive. Although, I crapper wager how centering on calibre kinda than abstraction strength be a beatific thing.

We’ll permit you undergo when the flooded cost and conditions become discover but for now, I’ve awninged pretty such everything in Google’s ADC2 announcement.