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"Android, Google\u2019s well-publicized open handset alliance project, has garnered a good deal of interest among developers in the month\u2019s following its initial debut. The third-party push has been accelerated by way of the first installment of the Android Developer Challenge, the results of which were announced to participants late last week. If you\u2019re interested to see which entries in ADC Part 1, Round 1 made it to the list of the top 50, Google has now delivered the details. Most of them, anyway.\nIn a post published to the Android Developers Blog, Jason Chen, a so-called developer advocate, revealed a selection of some 46 of 50 chosen developments, including the names of applications and services as well as their creators. Four developers have chosen to keep themselves and their code incognito for the time being. Which kind of spoils this announcement somewhat, but hey, nearly four dozen creations is perhaps enough to chew at the moment\nLooking at some of the successful contestants, which are said to have been chosen out of a pool of some 1,800 developments, the ideas being conjured up in this process are quite interesting and whose range of purposes are great, to say the least. AndroidScan, for instance, utilizes a phone's camera through ZXing to scan barcodes to determine prices in local stores as well as Amazon.com. Another development, called BreadCrumbz, allows users to chart milestones on their journeys to form a sort of trailmap while one's travels are in progress. Many others will likely be of interest to future Android users as well.\nThe complete list of developers to collectively reap portions of the promised $1.25 million prize ($25,000 each, plus $100,000 and $275,000 bonuses dealt to the top 20 winners, to be determined in July) can be found here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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