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Google has put up $US10 million ($13.2m) for developers to come up with mobile applications for its new open source mobile platform Android.
The Android Developers Challenge will award a range of a cash prizes to those whose applications are picked by a panel of judges.
"We've built some interesting applications for Android but the best applications are not here yet and that's because they're going to be written by developers," said Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a statement today.
"We'd like to reward these developers and recognise them as much as possible."
Android was announced last week by the Open Handset Alliance, a group aiming to build the first truly open source mobile smartphone platform.
The Alliance has released a early look at the Android SDK to download, which includes documentation, tools, an emulator and libraries needed to build an Android application.
More information about the challenge can be found here.
- NZ HERALD STAFF
