Google livestream first-ever Google Play Awards for Apps and Games during its annual developer conference, the Google I/O in May.There were 10 award categories in which five nominees were shortlisted and the criteria for selection relies on the quality of the app, innovative features and released a major update in the past year. The winners were selected by the Google Play team itself.
1) Standout Startup: Nominees
Winner: Hopper
Hopper is a mobile application that uses big data to predict and analyze airfare. Hopper provides travelers with the information they need to get the best deals on flights, and notifies them when prices for their flights are at their predicted lowest points. Hopper was founded in 2007, is based in Cambridge and Montreal, and is backed by Brightspark, Accomplice, OMERS Ventures, and BDC Capital IT Venture Fund.
2) Standout Indie: Nominees
Winner: Alphabear
Alphabear is an original word puzzle game by Spry Fox, the developer of the award winning game Triple Town.
In Alphabear, you spell words by selecting letters on a grid. When you use letters that are adjacent to each other, bears appear! The more letters you use, the bigger the bear gets, and the more points you earn!
3) Best Families App: Nominees
Time Caterpillar
Winner: Thinkrolls 2
Thinkrolls 2 is an enlightening logic puzzler for kids 3-9 years old. Take pride in your children's achievements, as they sharpen their minds and solve increasingly challenging puzzles, all while having fun! It is molding the next generation of scientific geniuses and will have the whole family enthralled.
4) Best Use of Material Design: Nominees
Winner: Robinhood
Robinhood for Android is a free download that allows people to buy and sell stocks for free! View market data in real-time, build a personalized watchlist, and place trades with a few taps. You don't have to pay a commission on buying and selling stocks, unlike with other services
5) Best Use Of Google Play Game Services: Nominees
Winner: Table Tennis Touch
Table Tennis Touch is a table tennis video game developed by Yakuto. It was originally released for iOS on May 15, 2014. An Android release followed on March 11, 2015.
If you like table tennis, you'll love Table Tennis Touch. Stunning graphics, intuitive swipe controls, realistic high speed gameplay and multiple game modes have made Table Tennis Touch the world's #1 table tennis game.
6) Early Adopter: Nominees
World Around Me is a unique way to find useful places around you - such as restaurants, ATMs, shops, bus/metro stations and more. WAM uses your phone’s camera to give you a completely new way of exploring a place, anywhere in the world.
You can play it casually—but battling, collecting, and leveling up Pokémon can also provide hours of fun.Pokémon Shuffle Mobile is a puzzle game where you line up three or more Pokémon vertically or horizontally to battle against wild Pokémon.
7) Go Global: Nominees
Winner: Pokémon Shuffle Mobile
8) Most Innovative: Nominees
Winner: NYT VR
NYT VR has daily virtual reality video stories from the New York Times, presenting news in a more immersive way.Users of the NYT VR app can use Google Cardboard to go inside the news. Or for those who don’t subscribe to the NYT you can still use the app to view interactive videos.
9) Best App: Nominees
Winner: Houzz
Whether you’re looking to renovate or redecorate, Houzz has everything you need to improve your home. Get inspired with over ten million high-resolution photos of home interiors and exteriors that you can browse by style, room and location, save and share. Connect with over one million active home improvement professionals, from architects to contractors to designers and more, who can make your dream home a reality; and shop millions of products to complete your projects.
10) Best Game: Nominees
Winner: Clash Royale
Supercell is known for its Clash of Clans game, and now Google is giving the company props for its Clash Royale game.
Clash Royale looks and feels like a spin-off of the Clans before it. Here players battle one another in real time using a series of strategic cards. Those cards offer different types of troops you can march into battle, and if you’re good enough, come out victorious on the other side. It's very different from the base building of Clash of Clans.
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