OpenIntents was a labour of love that somehow, didn’t make it into the top 50. A lot of hard work went into designing and implementing an “open intents” framework and interface to make Android mobile applications work more closely together.

SplashPlay was part of this framework and other applications were also designed that would have played an integral part in sharing common data to make each application flow seamlessly, as part of the OpenIntents ‘umbrella’ platform.

Tags, feeds, accelerometer simulator, present picker, etc, were all credible applications unto their own right and we are happy that at least one submission succeeded.

Other developers who didn’t make the top 50 have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours developing their applications but in hindsight the judges may have seen many submissions as technical applications, when in reality there must have been a few that got away! HandyCalc for example, was another application that was a very credible idea if not purely because of the effort the developer must have put in. It seems the simplest ideas made it through such as GolfPlay, which i would love to use on my gPhone, being a golf fanatic.

The journey has only just begun and it is only a matter of time before the ‘walled-garden’ business model of telecoms giants becomes a thing of the past and one common platform for all becomes the next technological revolution. This would make it easier to implement augmented technology, an exciting way of integrating peripheral hardware with mobile devices.