The Indian Android Developer Contest folks have put up the criteria for judging an app. I gave it a quick read and ended up wondering whether the following would have been a better alternative.

• Usability - whether the app does what it claims to do
• Security - whether the app is inherently insecure
• Fault Tolerance - whether the app fails gracefully or, just decides to rampantly go awry
• Service Tolerance - whether the app, if backed with a custom service, can handle high transactional loads
• Geolocation awareness - whether the app, if required, can handle geo-location gracefully
• Content Freshness - whether the app does collect and collate relevant content that is local (depends on the point above)
• Platform Consumption - whether the app makes best and optimal use of the API provided by the underlying platform
• Hardware Tolerance - whether the app factors in difference in hardware specifications across handsets with compatible OS
• Feature Completeness - whether the app has differentiating features from other apps in same category
• Consumer building - whether the app devels take time to build a community of users/consumers using social media and market feedback means

I'd also have fancied the names of the judges to be made available.