Google Reportedly Targets An Android Developer, and Launches Android Developer Challenge

September 25, 2009

From OStatic blogs

"Google has reportedly filed a cease-and-desist order against one of the Android platform’s most prolific developers," GigaOm reports today. The developer, Steve Kondik, goes by the name of Cyanogen, and "offers a free, after-market firmware product that bundles closed-source Google apps such as Gmail, Market, Talk and YouTube." The CyanogenMod bundle of apps reportedly offers many useful apps not found in official Android releases, and Google feels rubbed the wrong way by it. Check out more in the GigaOm story. Meanwhile, Google is kicking off round two of its Android Developer Challenge. There are many six-figure cash awards for developers of the best Android applications.