About Samsung Apps Developer’s Contest.

Samsung is having a developers’ challenge as a way of showcasing Kenya’s talent and developing applications into the market place. This will involve inviting talented developers to develop and submit applications.

Registration

Interested developers can design mobile applications and submit into any of the 7 categories.

Categories
There would be 5 categories for entries:

  • Education/Reference
  • Games: Arcade/Action/ Casual/Puzzle
  • Social Networking + Lifestyle
  • Entertainment + Media
  • Miscellaneous

Mechanics

Developers can submit their applications for any one of the 5 categories at the beginning of the contest. Not more than one application should be submitted for each category by a contestant.

1st Stage

There will be a first round selection stage, to identify applications built to specifications and standards suitable for mobile device rendition and functionality. In this round, the top 2 applications per category will be selected by a team at Samsung. There will also be a second round of selection by judges made up of professions in the fields of mobile software development and marketing. In this round the top application in each category will be selected. These applications will then move to the second and final stage of the contest.

Each of the developers picked after Stage 1 will receive handsets from Samsung.

2nd Stage

At this stage, the top five (5) applications across all categories will be developed and deployed on Samsung Servers. There will be an app launch session @ ihub and alls developers whose applications as launched will win KShs 200,000 (approx $USD 2500).

Eligibility
The Samsung Apps Developer’s Contest is open only to applications that have not been made publicly available to the market prior to the beginning of the contest. Additionally, applications that have been entered in similar contests are ineligible for the Samsung Apps Developer’s Contest, regardless whether they were winning apps. Similarly, updated versions of applications that have been entered for in a similar contest are also ineligible.

All applications submitted for the Samsung Apps Developer’s Contest will be made available to all contest judges for free, exclusively for the purposes of judging. If contestants intend to sell their application after the conclusion of the contest, they may submit a “trial” version of the application for judging. We recommend that the trial version include full functionality, but with a timed expiration, rather than including limited functionality with no expiration. Judges will evaluate the applications based on only the functionality accessible to them.

All submitted applications must run on the following mobile operating systems as listed below and must be in English language:

  • Bada

Reward
Prizes will be awarded in each of the following categories:
1 stage selection (Per Category)

  • Samsung Device

Overall (Per App)

  • Kshs 200,000

Timeline

October 25th 2010

Contest Starts.

December 6th 2010

  • Announce 5 Local developers who will develop their apps further and deploy on Samsung Apps.
  • Each of the 5 Developers get handsets
  • Each of the developers start working to deploy the apps via Samsung apps

January 31st 2011

  • Samsung Launch for the 5 Apps
  • Each of the developers earn 200k each
  • Rev Share Kicks in (for paid apps)