Winners on Vip Android Challenge 2010

Remember the Android challenge I was writing about recently? Well, this is the result after the jury has voted. Congratulations to the winners and all participants as well.

I was satisfied with the result, having in mind that this was new technology and the time spent on making our VipEvents application was small. Besides we were having other responsibilities in our lives :). We were among the first 11 applications out of 80 that were participating in the challenge. I think this is quite a decent result. 

Now we are planning to tide the design and make it "polished". There will be some improvements. Also, we are planning to work on our server-side solution and we'll keep the complete solution android client and web service completely reliable solution for our concept, clients to use both of them.

Hello Android

This post is about my recent interest in Android, operating system for mobile devices, and its SDK. The reason for the interest was the recent contest/challenge for developing an application for Android, organized by telecommunication company in Macedonia, also the prizes were a good motive. According to the contest organizer the prizes are 500,000MKD (~8000EUR) for first place, 150,000MKD (~ 2400EUR) for second and for all participants HTC Tatoo mobile phone.

My team and I have developed application that will display information about events organized especially in Macedonia, but the location is not a matter, it could be everywhere on Earth. Event's location can be displayed on a map, this way the user can get more sense and orientation how to get to that location. Also the user can post this on his/her Facebook profile. The application has three locales English, Macedonian and Albanian, this means that its interface can be displayed on these three languages. Now enough talking, these are some of the print-screens from our VipEvents application, I forgot to mention its name :). I am so excited about it.

Main screen lists all upcoming events	Event details, location and Facebook share button
Search by location with GPS enabled, gives all events within 50km of radius	Publish new event from the Android device
Search by several criteria: category, location, upcoming.	Select event location from map

The application could be downloaded from Android Market searching its name, VipEvents. Also there are some search engines that display info about applications uploaded on Android Market, here are two of them:

• AppBrain
• Cyrket

Now we are waiting for the results from the contest on 20.09.2010