These 12 Android apps won the 2017 Google Play Awards
The results are in for the second annual Google Play Awards, the company’s new tradition to honor excellence in the world of Android apps. In late April, we took a look at the 60 nominees across the Play Award’s 12 categories.
Now, here are the winners.
Name: IFTTT
Price: Free
Description: This is the go-to service to automate all kinds of online services and smart home devices in ways that wouldn’t be possible without it. Now it’s being honored for “enabling device interaction to serve people with disabilities or special needs.â€
Name: ShareTheMeal - Help children
Price: Free
Description: This charity app from the World Food Programme lets you give small donations (as little as 50 cents a day) to feed a child in an impoverished or war stricken area of the world.
Name: Mushroom 11
Price: $4.99
Description:Â A puzzle platformer game that takes you through a post-apocalyptic world where you help a new lifeform grow among the ruins.
Name: Hooked
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This app shows you stories in the format of an SMS/Messaging app. It’s supposedly an attempt to make reading fun again. Having swapped novel-length attention spans for tweets and status updates year ago, Hooked offers short engaging stories in a format our primitive ape brains can still handle.
Name: Runtastic Pro Running, Fitness
Price: $4.99
Description: This popular smartphone-based workout tracker has always been a top choice among runners.
Name: Red Bull TV
Price: Free
Description: Have you ever spent time on Red Bull’s TV site or one of its TV apps? If you like action or motor sports, my advice is don’t. You could be lost for days.
Name: Virtual Virtual Reality
Price: $4.49 (sale price)
Description: As its name suggests, the idea in this Daydream VR experience is to explore virtual reality inside virtual reality. You can take on and off VR headsets inside this VR game to experience more than 50 levels and over two hours of unique virtual, virtual experiences.Â
Name: Woorld
Price: Free
Description: For Tango devices, Woorld lets you place virtual characters and toys inside your own living room or whatever other physical space you find yourself in.
Name: Animal Jam - Play Wild!
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This kids app lets your little ones design their own animal characters, create animal dens, and hang out with friends in a virtual 3D world.
Name: Hearthstone
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: Blizzard’s popular digital card game has been around for years and shows no sign of slowing in popularity.
Name: Memrise: Learn a new language
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This language-learning app offers lessons in 14 languages, and contains two million words and phrases that are taught through games, chatbots, and videos of native speakers.
Name: Transformers: Forged to Fight
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: It’s like Streetfighter, but with Transformers. But it’s also got aspects of tower defense and RPG.
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