Google has announced a second round of the now-famous Android developer challenge – which awards cash for writing cool apps for the Android platform. Win-win, huh? In 2008, Google did this and you can see the results here. The big surprise – the winningest apps were NOT particularly amazing ($275,000 was given to the writers of the cab4me app which locates a taxi for your location). You can be sure that this round will offer some stiffer competition. Here is the prize breakdown:

For each of the 10 categories:

• 1st prize: $100,000
• 2nd prize: $50,000
• 3rd prize: $25,000

Overall (across all categories)

• 1st prize: $150,000 (meaning the overall winner will receive $250,000)
• 2nd prize: $50,000 (meaning the 2nd prize winner will receive up to $150,000)
• 3rd prize: $25,000 (meaning the 3rd prize winner will receive up to $125,000)

To be eligible, your app can NOT have been published already. Also if you already entered your app in the first contest, forget it. Also, english only, por favor. Full contest details can be found here.