AUSTIN, TX – February 16, 2012 – Event producer Engage Digital, in collaboration with South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals, will hold the first App Hackathon @ SXSW (appdevhackathon.com/) overnight March 9-10, 2012 at the Austin Music Hall. More than 250 developers will create unique new iOS™ and Android® software and HTML5 apps leveraging the latest in application programming interfaces (API) for these platforms. These include the new voice-powered, Web services mashup Zypr™ API from Pioneer® Corporation and APIs from Creditcards.com and Turbulenz.

Launched in November of 2011, and with more than 1,300 registered developers, Zypr provides seamlessly-connected experiences across PCs, mobile, tablet, consumer electronics and automotive platforms. Pioneer anticipates App Hackathon @ SXSW and integration of Zypr into the acclaimed new Scion™ FR-S car due in the Summer of 2012 further strengthening the technology as the premier voice-powered API.

“App Hackathon at South By Southwest is an ideal forum for tapping the ingenuity that can showcase exactly what Zypr-based mashups are capable of offering to the developer community,” said Koichiro Uchiyama, Chief Business Planner, Zypr Project at Pioneer Corporation. “We are excited to see just what this extraordinary group of professionals can accomplish with our API and look forward to celebrating those achievements after a night of intense coding, complemented by the greatAustinlive-music scene and SXSW panels.”

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Here are winners of the App Dev Hackathon in Santa Clara which took place on Oct 27th.  Congratulations to everyone.

Pioneer
Judge: David Frerichs
Prize: $1000 cash

Description: The $1,000 cash prize is provided by Pioneer as an incentive to creating the mobile app that takes best utilizes the power and flexibility of the Zypr API.

WINNERS: Bob Anderson with the n2tAppDev app for iOS.

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Tropos
Judge: Johnny Diggz
Prize: Amazon Kindle for all members of a winning team that uses the Tropo API in their application.

Description: Using simple web APIs you can add phone, sms, and IM to your applications. Tropo’s cloud communication services can connect your application to the phone number, voip, and text networks like SMS, Twitter, and IM. Or put a full featured phone or chat client in your browser, iOS, and Android applications with Phono, an open source jQuery and PhoneGap plugin for real time communications.

WINNERS:
Help On The Way from Ankit Ranka won 2- Kindle Fires
Conflux from Jouhan Allende and Michael Lewis won 2- Kindle Fires
Dr. Mila from Chiu-Ki Chan won an iPod Nano

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appMobi
Judge: Joe Monastiero
Prize:
1st Place: $500 Amazon gift card (will email the winners the card)
2nd Place: $350 Amazon gift card
3rd Place: $150 Amazon gift card

Description: The prizes will go to whoever develops the most interesting app using appMobi’s XDK.

WINNERS:
1st Place: Eduardo Abreu with his eMeety app
2nd Place: John Yen with his The Most Interesting… app
3rd Place: Elmer Thomas with the SendGrid Emailer app

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Sierra Trading Post
Judge: Mike Tran
Prize: Best overall app – $1,000 value $500 cash plus (5)-$100 SierraTradingPost Gift cards.
Most Creative app – $500 value – $250 cash plus (5)-$50 SierraTradingPost Gift Cards

Description: Multichannel retailer selling outdoor gear, shoes, men’s and women’s clothing, accessories and home furnishings. Qualified apps must use the Sierra Trading Post API, dev.sierratradingpost.com/api_gallery

WINNERS:
First prize – Crazy Climb from Omid Ahourai
Runner up prize – Sierra Trading Post Hotline from Stephen Bock

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Crittercism
Judge: Andrew Levy
Prize:
First prize: Kindle Fire (pre-ordered and delivered when released)
Runner up prize: Nerf Gun

Description: To compete the developers will just need to integrate either our iOS or Android SDK — which only takes 5 minutes. This will provide them with crash reporting but they’ll get bonus points if they use our (optional) in-app support forum. We’ll choose our favorite apps based on which are the most innovative or creative. Our favorite will get the top prize and the runner up will get the nerf gun.

WINNERS:
First prize – Elmer Thomas with the SendGrid Emailer app won the Kindle Fire
Runner up prize – Conflux created by Michael Lewis and Jouhan Allende

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Rovi
Judge: Tameez Sundjeri
Prize: 2- $500 Amex gift cards

Description: best hacks using Rovi APIs will receive the prize
Rovi has several APIs providing entertainment metadata on music and movies that can power applications. Additionally, we have comprehensive TV Listings APIs that covers broad geographies and service providers.
API signup: developer.rovicorp.com/Get_Started
Documentation: developer.rovicorp.com/docs
3rd Party Uses of Rovi APIs:
- SongVoodoo: Website to instantly search for music lyrics—uses Rovi APIs to provide additional metadata on the search query
- Liner Notes: Plug-in for iTunes that uses Rovi APIs to provide additional metadata on the currently playing track
- The Buy Button: Searches the web for where music is sold
- Music Hack Day App: Generates quiz questions by randomly choosing an artist from the iTunes library and querying the Rovi API for metadata about the artist wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=Boxee_Music_Quiz Screenshot is here: the.echonest.com/platform/showcase/detail/177/

WINNERS: Chiu-Ki Chan with the Movie Jot app

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immersion
Judge: Bob Heubel
Prize: 5- $100 gift cards
Description: Awarded to the team, up to five team members, making the best use of the Haptics plugin.

WINNERS:
two winners – Doodle Grub from Adrien Duermael, and ViBe from Paul Benjamin

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Box.net
Judge: Alex Willen
Prize: iPad2
Description: Best use of the Box API. The winner will be selected based on innovative use of the API, as well as the depth of the integration.
WINNERS: John Wright with the CoVu app for social communication

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HTC
Judge: Michael Ludden
Prize: HTC Jetstream tablet with digital pen
Description: The app that makes the best use of the HTC Scribe technology.

WINNERS: The ClayAR with Pen Support from Ina Yosun Chang

The first App Dev Hackathon and Bootcamp took place October 27, 2011, 9 am – 8 pm at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The event is for developers working on mobile apps. Developers will learn new skills, build mobile apps, compete for prizes, meet people and find teammates for new or current projects. Not your traditional hack, AppDev Hackathon features hands on training classes on the latest technologies and trends that can help developers build better apps.

AppDev Hackathon is both for coding gurus and beginners, there is something for everyone. Those who have never developed an app before or new to APIs will be able to attend the mobile app beginner class and then tap into the experts for advice. Developers are welcome to enhance their existing app with one of the cool APIs or services or start a new app at the AppDev Hackathon.  Both existing apps and new apps will be eligible for prizes.

Participants are welcome to bring a team that is all ready together and use the time to innovate or meet other developers and create a team onsite. Or, you are also welcome to work alone as well. Registration for the hackathon is free.

Schedule

8:00a Check-in
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9:00a Introduction, Rules, Prizes
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10:00a Hack begins
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10:00a Bootcamp begins
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12:00p Lunch break
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1:00p Hack Continues
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6:30p Presentations begin
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8:00p Winners Announced
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8:30p Hack Ends