Africa Android Challenge, AAC for short is a multi nation android developer challenge that is open and free to all countries on the African continent. AAC is meant to motivate, inspire and encourage African developer to innovate solutions on the Android platform that are driven by and for the local content. This challenge is also meant to discover hidden talents amongst the best developers and Android experts on the continent. African Android Challenge is also serving to foster collaboration amongst different developer and IT communities through bringing the Google Developer Groups(GDGs) and Java User Groups(JUGs) to work together as they organize and mobilize their respective members to participate in this challenge with a common vision of being innovative on the Android platform. This year’s AAC was announced on Feb 15, 2013 and its first round will be due by April 25, 2013 so for the rest of the Android geeks and passionate developers on the continent with apps to submit should do so as soon as possible. The detailed agenda of this year’s AAC is here.
An number of awesome Android apps have been submitted already, for those who are yet to submit but don’t know how to do it please find submission details and guidelines here. We will be sharing the cool and innovative app already submitted for the purpose of inspiring and encouraging those who have not yet submitted to get involved. To begin with will be the apps submitted from Kenya by the cool android geeks there so far.
Easy Parking is a cool Android app submitted by Thomas Kioko from Nairobi Kenya to the Travel Section of the competition. This app is intended to help motorists to locate parking areas with the help of sensors installed in the parking lots. Thomas’s vision is to reduce the time motorists in Nairobi and other areas take looking for parking space and to minimize fuel consumption.
Gamer’s World is another awesome android app submitted by Bonny Kashif also from Nairobi, Kenya. It is in the section of Entertainment. With many people playing games today and the enormously big collaboration between the games developers, collaborators, promoters and gamers. It is not easy to keep up with the video game world, bring all gamers' trending video game stories, walk through, cheats, upcoming game details and many more in a simple and enriched user experience. With Bonny’s Gamer’s World app that will be history as users of this app will have much time to do other things and the app does all the hard stuff for them. This app targets all world gamer with what is buzzing in the video game industry.
KenCab was submitted by Said Fuad from Mombasa, Kenya to the Travel section of AAC. This app will help its users to easily locate cabs from their current location and also help them query fare basing on which route they want to take.
We will review all submitted apps here however, to keep updated and to share with other cool minded people please join the public AAC participants community here. Watch out for what the cool android geeks in Ivory coast have for this year’s AAC in the next blog!
Africa Android Challenge Management Team
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