Mobile Application Technology in Nigeria: A Case Study for Innovation & Transformation

Mobile applications are on the rise globally and Nigeria as one of the leading countries in Africa in internet and mobile phone consumption should not be left behind. Mobile phones are affordable and now come with a lot of processing power. Applications written on mobile devices can go a long way in solving some really serious problems. The objective of this paper, therefore is to showcase a mobile application in windows phone platform that loads locations of police stations close to the user through his/her GPS coordinate readings. It goes further to show the need of having Nigerians developing applications for Nigerians using tools like the Android ADT and the windows phone SDK. Agile development methodology was used in this sample as it supports increments which makes development circle flexible and allows developers to focus on a feature at a time depending on the size of the team. It was established that having locals develop applications for their communities in most cases, lead to development of applications that are really geared towards solving users’ problems.