"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles." - Trip Hawkins
 

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. There are more people on the planet who communicate with text messages than with e-mail and more people who own phones than have credit cards. Have you ever felt jealous of Sivan Sundar, youngest mobile app developer who has already developed a couple of free mobile applications for Google Android??  Want to a start an artistic revolution translating your imagination into a nifty app? Is your job not to ease people but to make them better? Are you a person who wants to put a small piece of your mind - your design - into other’s life?  If your answer to any of the above questions is yes, then this is the arena for you. Start triggering your brain cells and join the global league of young developers with K! Mad and let your creativity unravel the unknown. "Click... Boom... Amazing!!!"

• The participants are required to develop an application using Phone gap based on the theme that we provide.

• The theme for K MAD is "Lifestyle improvement challenge" like

  • Parental control on mobile

  • Walking distance and measurement

  • Thief detector

  • Alert on voice to drink water

  • Driver guide on distance

  • Key tracker

• This is a team event (maximum of 3 per team).

• The members of each group can be from different colleges.

• K! MAD is an online event. So, entries will have to be sent through mail following the 'Submission Details'.

• The event will begin at 00:00 hrs on December 2, 2011 and run until 23:59 hrs on January 20, 2012.

• Only the entries adhering to the 'Submission Details' will be considered eligible.

The entries should be sent in the form of a compressed (zipped) folder with the contents mentioned below to kmad@kurukshetra.org.in  before 23:59 hrs on 20^th January, 2012  

1. Deployable Application with the source code

2. Rationale Document

 The Rationale Document in turn should contain the following information:

• Team Name

• Application Name

• Name of the Team Member(s)

• Technologies Used

• Compatible Platforms (If platforms include iPhone or Android, information on whether the app has been launched on the app store or the Android Marketplace)

• Pre-requisites to run the Application

• Motivation to build the application

• Challenges Faced

• Youtube Video Link (all contestants are expected to shoot a video covering the application and its features and post it on youtube)

Submissions are considered according to:

• Relevance of the application (Applicability)

• Creativity
  

• Size and complexity of the application
  

• Design of the application

• Functionality of the application
  

• More the number of platform your app supports, more is the points you score

The judges’ decision will be final and binding.

• Should a team necessarily consist of 3 members?

             A team is allowed to have a maximum of 3 members. There is no lower limit on the team strength.

• I am new to phonegap..Where do I start from?

             PhoneGap is the only open-source mobile development framework developed by Nitobi Software that supports 6 platforms. It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native (all layout rendering is done via the webview instead of Objective-C or Corona apps) nor purely web based (much of the functions would be supported by HTML5). PhoneGap currently supports development for the operating systems Apple iOS, Google Android, HP webOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian OS and RIM BlackBerry. Support for recent versions, such as BlackBerry 5 and 6 and Windows Phone 7, is being implemented now. For more information log on to www.phonegap.com

• Do I need to register for the event beforehand?

              Yes, you need to register before the event starts.