This whole effort is community driven supported by Google and is a way to assure the long-term success of African developers invested in the Android application environment. We also expect that such initiative will lead to the discovery of unexpected, rich, and valuable local content and applications.
Rules of the competition
The competition is a two round process with semi-finals and finals and consists of the 2 following sections:
- - Android Apps
- - Android Courses
In the first round (semi-finals), participants compete by country as defined by the competition organizers. The winners from each section and each country graduate to the final round.
- - Winners of Semi-finals will be selected on March 15 and will receive an Android device. Subsequently, they will have four more weeks to improve their apps and/or courses.
- - At the end of the four weeks they will resubmit their apps and courses for a final review.
- - The finalist from each section will win the coveted prize (an all-expenses-paid-for trip to G| [Country] event or Google University Consortium event in his region.
More details such as eligibility, rules, and conditions see here : http://http://androidchallenge.org/