Google Android Developer Challenge Won By Three Indian Developers
AgroDoc, Leepi and UnoDogs have been selected as winners of the Google competition
Google recently announced the 10 winners of its Android Developer Challenge that started in October last year.
Reuters
With the 11 Weeks of Android now concluded, three Indians have made their way to the top 10 developers announced by Google.
Three apps developed by Indians, namely AgroDoc, Leepi and UnoDogs have been selected as the winners of the Google developer challenge.
As the challenge required, the apps make use of machine learning for various real-life applications.
AgroDoc
AgroDoc, for instance, helps farmers diagnose plant disease through machine learning. This is done by just scanning the plant leaves using a smartphone camera.
The app then makes use of machine learning to analyse the leaf sample and identify the disease. The app has been developed by Navneet Krishna from Kochi.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during signing ceremony at El Centro College in Dallas, Texas (Representative Image: Reuters/ Oct, 2019)
Leepi
Developed by Prince Patel from Bengaluru, Leepi enables students to learn hand gestures and symbols for American Sign Language, thus helping those differently-abled in hearing and speaking.
The app uses letter, symbol, facial, and intent recognition through machine learning and provides real-time feedback to the learners.
UnoDogs
UnoDogs helps owners better take care of their pets. The app is focused towards providing customized information and fitness programmes to pet owners and hence accurately judge their dog¡¯s general health and work on it. The app has been developed by Chinmany Mishra from New Delhi.
After months of initiation of the developer challenge by Google to propel the use of machine learning in apps on its Play Store, the 10 winning apps are now ready for Android users to try out.
Such challenges are regularly conducted by tech majors to accelerate the adoption of new-age developer tools and hence increase their scope of application. A similar challenge conducted for students by Apple recently had Delhi¡¯s Palash Taneja as one of the winners.
Taneja developed a Swift Playground tool (based on a coding-learning platform developed by Apple) to teach people coding while making them learn how maintaining social distancing and wearing masks can help slow the spreading of the novel coronavirus.
