Africa Android Challenge, only four days to go!

We are very excited and think African developers are excited too. The shipment  of the first batch of android devices from Alcatel onetouch was made yesterday! The shipped devices include among others One Touch Idol ULTRA and One Touch Scribe HD
ask you to tolerate reading the longest blog about this year's Africa Android Challenge. We have a lot to share and little time as many of you have just submitted your app and we feel they are worthy mentioning here. There are a number of GDG BarCamp events happening this April to celebrate the winners of the first round of this year's Africa Android Challenge, check then out on the site.The Swag and facilitation for the above events are on their way to the organizers  some might have already received them.
To be brief in this post, we will not give many details as there are a lot of apps submitted of recent to review.

EzyBiz is an application that assists business executives to create, share, store and archive invoices, quotations and receipts on the go in Portable document format.  It was submitted by Gerald Kibugi from Nairobi, Kenya.
he also submitted Tough Jungle, an action game which shows the diverse of the jungle with wild animal in Africa with a strategy of moving the warrior across the forest. 

SnapRecharge was submitted by Tessu EPHRAIM MAWULIKPLIM from Kumasi, Ghana. It lets users recharge/reload their pay-as-you- go  voucher cards by simply taking a picture of the voucher card using their phone's camera .

Shaka Portion was submitted by Evelyn Muhia from Nairobi Kenya. It is based on a popular African tale of a young man who traveled far and wide through dangerous encounters (ghosts, giants and warriors) to get his sick, near-death mother the magic "Healing Portion" hidden deep within the Nzingobwe forest.

Africa at Large submitted by Sanogo Zié Ahmed is a bilingual application (English and French)  online and offline app which tracks only African news in the following categories: latest news, economy, health, agriculture, development.

Wildebeest Game was submitted by Owori Juma from Nairobi, Kenya. This application is a game about the migration of wildebeest across the Mara river in Maasai Mara National Park. The character is the wildebeest and the enemy are the crocodiles.

Nathan Mulugeta from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  submitted an app called EvenOrganizer. This let users to create events, put their locations on Google Maps then invite others through email.

Bereket Abebe and Micheal Haile from Addis Ababa,  Ethiopia developed Afro News which collects new from various news websites and presents them in a beautiful manner.

George Gathoni from Nairobi, Kenya submitted  Directory Kenya. This app help users to locate all business around by the help of yellowpages Kenya. The app gives you link to the business contacts and its location.
Ibukun Muyide from Ado-Eikti, Nigeria submitted Cliss. This is an Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) question based android Application, It will enable students to get familiar with UTME (Jamb) and post UTME Questions in Nigeria.

There will be an hangout about AAC's progress on 21 April 2013 between 2:30 and 3:30 so we encourage you to join the African Android Challenge participant's public community on Google plus to share and stay updated. For GDG and JUG organizers / managers there is a private community where information specific to you is sharedYou can also share with +Max Bonbhel  , +cedric Atangana   , +Lamine Ba  , +Basile Niane , +Nsubuga Hassan  or +jean-patrick Ehouman for any assistance by adding them to your circles.

AAC Management Team