Google I/O will feature a new celebration of developers this year, with Google’s announcement of the Google Play Awards. These awards will be given out to developers in several different categories, such as Standout Startup, Best Families App, and Best Use of Google Play Game Services. Interestingly enough, Google already has its nominees, selected by a “panel of experts on the Google Play team,” and the public’s voice appears to have no say in who will win. It’s all up to Google.
A few of the nominees include Alto’s Adventure (woot!) for Standout Indie, Todoist for Best Use of Material Design, and This War of Mine for Most Innovative. Looking over the list, there are a couple interesting choices by Google. One that sticks out to me is Vevo being nominated for Best Use of Material Design. C’mon, Google, there has to be a better choice.
A winners ceremony will be held next month at Google I/O. How exciting.
Go over the complete list of nominees and categories below, then share your thoughts on who you think should go home with the win.
Categories and Nominees
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21 responses to “And the Nominees Are: Google Announces First-Ever Google Play Awards”
These are boring compared to much better apps on Google Play Store.
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Very cool. Will definitely be checking these out. Nice to see Prune getting some love.
Wow, thanks for the nomination!
Some terrible apps right there
Is it supposed to be buzzfeed or buzzfeed news?
Can’t wait to vote for the official Droid Life app.
LMFAO
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I own none of the apps on this list….
Bring! has material design?? That’s more like Windows UI.
And what’s innovative in SmartNews?
“BuzzFeed News” is nominated but the icon and link is that of BuzzFeed main app, not the news app.
Colorify / TuneIn Radio for best app?? WTF..!!
Keep your pants on. Geez. People, including myself, use many of these apps and see a good case for them to be NOMINATED. Not given an award but at least nominated.
Missing EyeEm in the best material design apps. I just love how they’ve integrated the animations in many areas of the app.
Lots of apps that I have never heard of that I will now have to check out. Thanks Google and DL!
Robinhood is on there a few times. Anyone else have their account locked no apparent reason? It happened like the day after I signed up. Good thing I didn’t put any money in it.
Altos and tunein
LINKS PLEASE
Click on the Android Developers link at the bottom of the article…
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-google-play-awards-coming-to-google.html
TuneIn Radio is the only app I have installed out of this whole list. lol
Have had Tune In Pro for 5-6 years and use it everyday, love it