General Rules:

1. The competition is open to students of all colleges across India.
2. Students can enter the competition in groups as well.
3. Only students are allowed to participate, no professional app developers will be allowed.

 

Submission of Entries:

1. Applicants have to mail us their entries with complete details (including no of group members, platform used, targeted android versions, library used) before uploading them on the play store.
2. The App description should contain a brief overview of the app and also the hashtag: #InfoXpression.
3. If a participant doesn't have their own Google Play Developer account, then they can send their entries as an .apk file to infoxusict@gmail.com and the InfoXpression 2015 team will upload their application.

 

App Development Related Rules:

1. The app can be based on an application, idea or theme. But it should be dynamic (quiz, calculator, rss feed, etc. are not dynamic).
2. Application should be compatible with the latest versions of the Android. It should also provide backward compatibility with earlier versions of Android.
3. All the applications are to be developed in English only.
4. Size should be minimized as far as possible.
5. Applications developed using online open source web application, like App Inventor, are not allowed.
6. Apps made on eclipse or Android Studio or any other platform will be allowed to participate in the contest.
7. Copying of code from the internet can lead to disqualification from the competition.

 

Judging Criteria:

1. Number of Downloads on the play store up to 13^th March, 2015.
2. Innovation and Originality of the application.
3. Technical Aspects:

• Performance: this sub-criterion represents the response time of the app. The shorter time the better the app performs.
• User interface: this sub criterion evaluates how attractive, adaptive and responsive the app is.
• Operation: ease of use of the app. For example, it evaluates how to start the app and how to navigate between the functionalities of the app.
• UI Design: design of the User Interface (elements such as colors, fonts, icons).
• Usefulness: providing useful information to users (depending on the content).
• Functionality /User Experience (UX): functionality, efficiency, logical structure.
• Working offline: this sub-criterion evaluates the capability of working offline of the app.
• Accessing device’s hardware: this sub-criterion describes how effectively the app can access device’s hardware (e.g. camera, GPS and storage).

 

Important Deadlines:

1. 13^th March, 2015: Last date for uploading the app and counting downloads.