On Thursday, November 17th, Gbenga Sesan held a Google Plus hangout with finalists of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC), Sub Saharan Africa. The hangout was an opportunity for African web developers, entrepreneurs and Internet marketers to hear from the winners about their experience building winning applications, what their experience has been like since winning the contest and their plans for the future.

The session was held simultaneously in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa with audiences tuning in from Co-Creation Hub in Lagos, iHub in Nairobi and Umbono in CapeTown. Interestingly, the session’s host, Gbenga Sesan hung out with the finalists from Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos en route to Addis Ababa. Given his track record, we really wanted Gbenga to host this hangout and it was nice to see it happen live despite his busy itinerary.

The hangout kicked off with an introduction on the various apps from the ADC finalists. This was followed by a series of questions by Gbenga where he asked the Challenge’s finalists about what skills and qualities helped them design their applications among others.

Most of the Challenge winners unanimously cited perseverance as the key quality that helped them emerge as winners with Richard Marsh of Wedding Plandroid emphasizing that patience and a focus on value coupled with perseverance helped him develop his app.

In addition, Afrinolly’s CEO, Chike Maduegbuna noted that developing a clean user interface for the app was key to their winning the competition. According to him, the Afrinolly Team wanted to make a world class app and this helped them stand out from the competition.

Full interview here: http://www.cp-africa.com/2011/11/28/video-gbenga-sesan%E2%80%99s-hangout-with-finalists-of-the-android-developer-challenge/