ADC2: Top 200 Announced, Round 2 Starts

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adc2 Round 1 of the 2nd Android Developers Challenge kicked off without a bang and ended the same way. The new element of “user testing/voting” didn’t seem to generate the level of interest some anticipated, but perhaps Round 2 will be different. Google has sent out an Email to 200 developers who have successfully made it to the 2nd and final Round of ADC2.

Why do I think Round 2 will make a bigger splash? Because there are a finite number of applications which can be individually identified. If you’re interested in Android Applications, you could easily spend some time reading the list, testing out some apps and seeing what you think. Round 1 had an open-ended nature with an unknown quantity of apps that couldn’t be identified until it was time to test it out. Not only that, but with ANYONE having access to Round 1 there were a lot of nonsense apps dilluting the quality. With this Top 200 can you can be pretty sure each one has something to offer and is held to SOME kind of standard… right?

You want the list of the Top 200… don’t you? I took the list that Google posted and categorized them as I thought it would help you find what interests you most:

Arcade:

4 Player Reactor (ADC)
Atmosphere: Trainer
Atomic Blaster
Bazooka Rabbit Demo For ADC
FRG
GangWars
Graviturn 1.0
Head To Head Racing
JumpyBall 3D
Light Racer 3D Trial
Moto X Mayhem
PhotoShoot – The Duel (ADC)
ProjectINF ADC
Radiant
Runes MMORPG – Alpha release
Space STG – Galactic Wars
Speed Forge 3D
Spheremare
Stroids – ADC2
Subzero Challenge

Casual

Blink
Blockx 3D Pro (ADC2)
Comeks Microphone Hero
Decades
Flick It!
Jelix
KUMPA
Lucid ADC2
Mazeness
mPuzzle
N. American Conquest (ADC)
Nintaii
Pobs
Pocoro
Seek ’n Spell
Sketch Online
Sudoku Camera
Totemo
UrbanGolf light
What the Doodle!? (ADC2)

Education

Botanica
Celeste
Complete Memorization
Detexify: LaTeX Recognizer
EarthTime
Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab
Flu Tracker
FUN2Learn
Kanji with Picture
Learn!
Manchego!
mobilematics
mobiProfessor
MultiLex English Explanatory
Plink Art
Robotic Guitarist (ADC2)
Trippo
Voicetrans (ADC)
Word Puzzle
Zenith

Entertainment

A World Of Photo
A.D.A.M
Daisy Garden
DroidSpray
Entertain Me
Fun Buzz Widget
g-tar
Golfuls
iLomo
JAM session
midNite movie
Nebudroid
SFR Postcard
SingSong
Solo – ADC2
SongDNA
Sonorox (ADC2)
Taps Of Fire
Who’s Calling
Yuilop

Lifestyle

AirPainter
Album Art Grabber for ADC2
AMon (adc2 version)
aShadow Finder
Digital Recipe Sidekick
DJ’it
FoxyRing ADC2
FriendBook
Gigbox
InTrouble
Mom’s shopping list
Mover
NetDroid
Rhythmatics™ Alpha
Smart Alarm Clock
SpecTrek
SweetDreams
Todoroo
Web Clip Widget
Xeeku Photo Journal

Misc

aLock
Andrometer 1.0
AndShowtime
Animal Compass
AnyWidget
Calton Hill GPSCaddy
Decaf: EC2 on your Android
Dialify
Executive Assistant
FlyScreen
KAN-BAN WORLD
medAssist.me
Missing Children ADC
Office Exercise
Open Gesture
Personal Finance
Rhythm Guitar
Scribtor
TapDialer
WebWidget

Multimedia

aPortaDrum
Buzz Deck beta
ChordBot
Citizenside
FxCamera (for ADC2)
Grooveshark Mobile
How-To Videos from Howcast.com
Mediafly Mobile ADC Edition
MicroJam
Mowsic Midi-Over-Wireless
musikCube
Photo BURST ADC2
PocketDJ
PrivateMedia
SPB TV for ADC
Spectral Audio Analyzer ADC2
Tesla – PC Remote Control
Time-Lapse Trial
TuneMagic
Uloops

Productivity

Alex Digital Secretary
AppManager (ADC2-edition)
Apps Organizer Adc
CubeWorks
Drocap
Eclosion
Event Flow
FlingTap Done
Fusion WebServer – Phone2Web
Handcent Messaging
Handy Poll ADC
Hoccer ADC2
Mobisle Notes
NewsRoom
Screebl
Tasker
taskTopia
Thinking-Space
Tracklet
WaveSecure

Social

A-GLOBAL-MIND
Agile Messenger IM
Appshare
Bambuser ADC2
Books-EX
Cartoon Gang
Ce:real – Everyday trends
ClapCard
Friend or Foe
GeoNotes
Locale Ping.fm Plug-In
MeetByChance.me
Phonebook Sharing
Scribble
SocialMuse
SpotMessage for ADC2
Swift Twitter App (ADC2)
TextEZFast
TweetAssist
Xeeku Twitter

Travel

Always Prompt
AnyStop: The Transit Companion
BabelSnap! (Trial)
Car Locator
Drive – AR Navigation System
Food Canary in a Restaurant
GPS Toolbox ADC2
HotelsByMe: Hotel Reservations
iNap: Arrival Alert (ADC2)
LawLocale
Maverick
MoVue
MyPosition
PhoneHotel
PhotSpot(ADC2ver)
PickYouUp
Sign Translation
Sports Trek
TopoDroid
Trip Journal

adc2-scan Winners of Round 2 – which is the final round – will be determined by a combination of user voting and Google selected judges. When does the voting conclude and when are the winners announced? Google left that open-ended, saying they’ll decide when a sufficient number of user votes have been collected. I’m guessing that’s a nod to low participation levels in Round 1 so HEY YOU – download the application and start submitting your votes! You can do so by scanning the code to your left with your Android Phone Barcode Scanner.

I got kind of frustrated with the force closes and whatnot in round 1 apps, leading me to limited participation. But I’m eager to start judging Round 2. I’m wondering though – Android 2.0 was just released and I’ll be testing with my Motorola Droid – is it fair that these apps weren’t made with 2.0 in mind and may get negative scores since many will be judging from their Droids? Is Google taking this into consideration?

If you want to talk to others about the Apps in the contest, head on over to the ADC2 Forum!

[Via ADB]