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AFRICA ANDROID CHALLENGE
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The Africa Android Challenge is on! The object is to learn and share your software development expertise...and to compete with your best Android application. Please join us and participate.
Location: Africa
Members: 3
Latest Activity: Mar 19, 2012
About the AFRICA ANDROID CHALLENGE
The Africa Android Challenge is all about the software development lifecycle. We'll go from concept to launch on each of the projects. The idea is to come up with a concept and develop it to completion.
We will share everything we learn. It's a great opportunity to learn about Android development and software development in general. You'll also build community by participating.
This group has discussions in the Discussion Forum, an RSS feed (the "Reading List"), a place to post comments and you'll see individual pages here, too.
Recognize Max Bonbhel, AfricaJUG and CongoJUG founder and coordinator in the photo above? That photo was taken at Google's Android headquarters during the JavaOne 2011 timeframe.
Thanks to Google for providing Android phones and assistance with this contest.
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AFRICA ANDROID CHALLENGE - SUBMISSIONS ARE IN!
Check out these cool submissions to the Africa Android Challenge:…Continue
Tags: moroccojug, senejug, jug-africa, codetown, android
Started by Michael Levin Mar 19, 2012.
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Hello I said what is the site for the challenge of africa androidContinue
Started by Ngadjeu. Last reply by Michael Levin Dec 21, 2011.
The Africa Android Challenge - First meeting 1 Reply
Here are some notes from the first meeting about The Africa Android Challenge. That's SeneJUG co-founder and coordinator Lamine…Continue
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Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Max Bonbhel Dec 8, 2011.
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Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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