Googe cultivating Android development community with $10 million petri-dish

Published: November 12, 2007, 8:14 pm

Tags: android, gphone, announcements, android, community, developer, google, gphone, phone, sdk

Petri-dishes are great for cultivating bacterial communities- they provide all nutrients that appeal to growing colonies of (usually) bacteria. And, now Google’s using their own petri-dish of sorts to cultivate the Android development community - except Google’s petri-dish is filled with $10 million of cold, hard, cash. Google’s calling this petri-dish the “Android Developer Challenge.” Google is putting up $10 million to encourage developers to embrace Android and submit their own Android-software to the newly minted dev community. Anyone is eligible to take a piece of Google’s $10 million pie (or petri-dish, to continue with our analogy), so amateur and professional coders alike are welcome to mess around with the fresh Android SDK. Here’s how the $10 million prize pool will be divvied up: Cash prizes range from $25,000 to $275,000 $10 million will be split up between two competitions - Challenge I and II Challenge I will be open from Jan.

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