Last
month, the five finalists of the Android Developer Challenge came together to share their experiences with the world via Google+
Hangouts.
Selected from a group of more than 200 submissions and 30 semi-finalists, the five
finalists were Chike Maduegbuna, Bobola Oniwura and Tope Omotunde
of AfriNolly (Nigeria); David
Lemayian of
Olalashe (Kenya); Gerald Kibugi
of Shopper’s Delight (Kenya); Herko
Lategan of Rainbow Racer (South
Africa); and Richard Marsh of Wedding Plandroid (South Africa).
The interview was hosted by CP Africa, a popular African blog
and Gbenga Sesan, Nigerian
tech evangelist, who conducted the interview while sitting in the departure lounge of the
Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos as he waited to board his flight to Addis
Ababa.
Thanks to the power of the internet and Google+, the interview was held
simultaneously in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, in collaboration with three developer
hubs: Umbono (Cape Town,
South Africa), Co Creation
Hub (Lagos, Nigeria)
and iHub (Nairobi,
Kenya). The finalists answered live questions and questions from people around the world
including Ghana, Italy, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda using Google
Moderator.
The top-voted question was on how to prioritize
features when building an application, while another participant wanted to know what kind of
changes the finalists hoped to create in Africa with their
applications.
To
learn more about the finalists for the Android Developer Challenge and their applications,
please visit the new case
studies section of the Google Africa
Developers website. If you create solutions using Google services for developers (Google Apps,
Chrome extensions, Android, App Engine, etc.) and want to share your story with the
world, let us know!
Chukwuemeka Afigbo is
a Program Manager in the Sub-Saharan Africa Outreach Team. He is an avid football (soccer)
fan.
