We always want the best in everything, and apps too. Google is the founder of the android OS, so if a Google committee says an android app is the best in a category, we should all take it from them. Still looking for the best google android apps? The Android Developer Challenge is where Google pinpoint the best apps of the year in some select categories and compensate the developers for their good jobs. And the winners walked away with prices money ranging from $100K-$25K. For the Android Developer Challenge (2), 2009, here are the best android apps winners in their categories, so be sure to download them to your droid, HTC Hero, Eris, Cliq, and other android phones.

Best Android Apps of 2009 (The Google’s Android Developer Challenge Winners)

1.
Best Education or Reference Apps
Plink Art
Plink Art is an art identifying app that helps you discover and share artworks. When you take a photo of a painting, the app will connect to Plink Art servers to identify it. You also get to browse a library of artwork by keyword or timeline, and share your discoveries with friends. A great app for painting lovers.

Plink Art for android

Word Puzzle
You daughter or son can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card on your android phone while you are driving him/her to school. With interesting visual and sound interaction your kids now have a new teacher and learning partner called android.

Celeste
This app tracks the movement of the sun, moon, and the stars as they move in space. See exactly where the sun will rise or set. In amazing 3D graphics see how the heaven bodies appeared in the past and how they will align in the future This app is a great tool to learn or teach the Solar System.

Celeste

2.
Best Entertainment Apps Winners
A World of Photo
Loosely inspired by the traditional “Spin the bottle”, A World of Photo is a casual, worldwide multiplayer online game with a social touch. Players spin their phones and will receive a photo from whomever in the world they pointed to.

A World of Photo

SongDNA
SongDNA widget provides a quick access to songs’ detailed information. It includes the lyrics, artist’s bio, homepage, highest chart rank, and video. This will be handy when getting ready for kareoke or just want to know more about a song or the artist.

SongDNA

Solo
Solo is a great easy to play and feature rich pocket guitar for your android phone. Those “android phone using guitar enthusiasts” can now carry a guitar in their pockets. It features a huge chord library with over 380 chords and diagrams, load and save chord layouts; play along with music on your phone with overlay music and lyrics from the internet.

Solo Guitar

3.
Best Arcade and Action Games Winners
Speed Forge 3D
Speed Forge is racing game with heavy duty hover vehicles in 3D. Get into some illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys. Be ready to paid $4.99 for the full version.

Speed Forge 3D

Graviturn
Tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles. Infinite levels from very easy to nearly impossible. Compare your performance with other players after each level at the online highscore and statistics board.

Graviturn

Moto X Mayhem
Jump, lean, and race through seven levels of amazing motorbike action in the best side scrolling bike game. Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land. Or just flick your rider around

4.
Best Casual or Puzzle Games Apps
What the Doodle!?
Is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and team games, global high scores, personal face doodles, integrated voice recognition and more. Real-time drawing, built for performance, you’ll really see the magic at first doodle.

what the Doodles?

Totemo
Unloose the spirit, break the spell, uncover the mystery hidden between the realms in a unique puzzle game. Storm your brain and relax your mind solving over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks. Play the survival mode for extra challenge and write your name into the on-line leaderboards. http://hexage.net

Totemo

Mazeness
The goal of the game is rather simple: you need to bring all the balls (up to 4 per level) to their goals at the same time, with help of barriers, teleports and holders. It seems simple at first, but it’s not that easy. The difficulty is growing steadily from level to level.

5.
Best Lifestyle Apps
SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, bluetooth, or ringtones volume it takes care of the for you.

SweetDreams

SpecTrek
Improve your fitness with this revolutionary augmented reality ghost hunting game. Walk or run around using GPS and your phone’s camera to find and catch virtual ghosts. The game offers statistics, awards, titles, records, and most of all a whole lot of fun.

SpecTrek

FoxyRing
Never have your ringtone going off too loud, at the wrong place or during your well-deserved sleep. FoxyRing periodically auto-adjusts your volume settings based on the ambient background noise. Includes: Widget, Geo-profiles, Locale plug-in, sleeping hours, battery management, emergency contacts.

FoxyRing

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