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Vous avez participé à l’Android Developer Challenge? Jetez un oeil à vos mails, les résultats sont là !

Voici tout d’abord le mail que ceux dont l’appli n’a pas été sélectionnée (car oui, nous ne sommes pas des perdants, loin de là !) ont reçu :

Dear participant,

During the past few weeks, 100+ judges around the world reviewed over 1,700 applications. They were extremely impressed with the diversity and the large number of high quality entries submitted. It is clear that the number of great applications far exceeds the 50 top scoring applications that will move on to the final round of the Android Developer Challenge.

We regret to inform you that your entry was not among the top 50 submissions. However, we’d like to bring a couple of interesting opportunities to your attention:

1. Due to the high quality of the submissions many of the judges who are also members of the Open Handset Alliance have showed interest in contacting some of the participants regarding their applications to explore further opportunities.2. In the near future, we’ll be creating an Android Developer Challenge Gallery where you can showcase your application. We’ll be providing more details shortly on how you can participate in this gallery.

If you’re interested in either one of these opportunities, please fill out the following form:

“lien qui marche pas”

As we’ve announced earlier, we’ll be running a second Android Developer Challenge later this year. This will give you another opportunity to showcase your application and compete for top prizes. We’ll be announcing the details of the second Android Developer Challenge in the near future. If you happen to be in San Francisco, CA on May 28-29, we hope that you’ll join us at Google I/O, Google’s largest developer event, where we will be holding many technical sessions on Android and other relevant technologies. The team will be present there and is looking forward to meeting you.

Thank you again for participating in the challenge.

Mais d’autres, ont reçu un autre mail :

During the past few weeks, 100+ judges around the world reviewed over 1,700 applications. They were extremely impressed with the diversity and the large number of high quality entries submitted. We’re pleased to inform you that your entry is among the top 50 submissions and that you will be awarded $25,000 USD. Your application has demonstrated originality, indispensability, intuitiveness, and good use of the Android platform - which are all attributes that our judges looked for while evaluating submissions to the challenge.

We’d like to bring a few items to your attention:

1. Due to the high quality of the submissions, many of the judges who are also members of the Open Handset Alliance have shown interest in contacting some of the participants regarding their applications to explore further opportunities. 2. We would also like to publish a list of the Semifinalists and their entries this coming Monday, 5/12. In particular, this would include your name, a screenshot, and a short description about your application. The description we’ll be including regarding your application is attached to this email.

To protect your privacy, we will not publish or share your information without your prior consent. If you are interested in having your information published and/or being contacted by a judge for potential further opportunities, please use the following form to give us your consent:You may also submit changes to the description of your entry at the above location. The requirements for the description are: Description (20 words max); Bullets (3 bullets, 46 words max); Tag line (10 words max). You may change the screenshots later.

We need all responses to the above form submitted no later than 9a PDT Monday, May 12.

3. If you happen to be in San Francisco, CA on May 28-29, we hope that you’ll join us at Google I/O, Google’s largest developer event, where we will be holding many technical sessions on Android and other relevant technologies. We’re providing you with a complimentary pass hoping that you’ll attend as our guest. Many Android team members will be present and are looking forward to meeting you.

If you’re interested in attending Google I/O please fill in the appropriate information in the above form and we’ll get you your complimentary event pass.

We will be contacting you next week regarding the payment process and next steps involving the final round of the challenge.

Congratulations and thank you again for participating in the challenge!

Android Developer Challenge Team

Parmis eux, il y au moins un français en la personne de Zorg, l’auteur de Marvin ! Bravo à toi et maintenant t’as intérêt à nous croire quand on te dit que ton appli est géniale !

Donc un grand bravo aux gagnants (il y a d’autres français?) et pour les autres, n’oubliez pas que comme Google le rappelle dans son mail, l’Android Developer Challenge n’est pas une fin en soi, c’est juste le début ! Même si votre appli n’a pas été sélectionnée, elle peut vous ouvrir beaucoup de portes et il reste toujours l’ADC 2 qui se profile à l’horizon ! Et puis, avouez que c’est bien fun de développer sur une plateforme comme Android, non?

PS : Venez vous défouler sur le forum ici !