Android is now the rage in the phone and tablet segments of the electronic communication devices, and five engineering students have mastered the art of developing applications for this operating system, thus becoming entrepreneurs even while in college.
The final-year students of the NRI Institute of Technology at Agiripalli, a remote village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, have got at least two jobs each in prime software companies during campus interviews, but they do not wish to take up the offers as there is a tremendous demand for their applications in the Android Marketplace.
‘Yoga Trainer'
In just six months, K.Y. Sai Krishna, a computer science engineering student, and four of his friends developed nine Android applications with a download of more than 20,000 installations for some, and more than 100 for the most recent one. ‘Yoga Trainer' on the Android Marketplace was developed by Sai Krishna, who has also released 15 updates so far.
Trained by S. Rambabu, a Java expert of the Hyderabad-based Sri Sai Institute of Information Technology, two teams of students developed the Java-based Android applications — Message Translator, Weight Loss, Hair Styles, Mobile Med and Stock Ticker — which were instant hits. A majority of downloads happened in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Korea.
Best and up-to-date
The students have placed their applications on the Google Android Marketplace and Amazon.com, in both the free and paid sections. But those in the free section are sought-after more, and they release maximum updates, making their functionality the best and up-to-date. Helped by their friends in the U.S., they have obtained Marketplace accounts as these are not given in India.
Usage pattern
The group studied the usage pattern on the Android Marketplace and identified health and fitness, games, communication, medicine, and lifestyle as the top categories in which the maximum number of downloads took place and selected those apps for development. Using the free Application Programming Interface of several players on the Internet, they provide the content. They have made Rs.70,000 in six months for the nine applications they developed as mini-projects as part of their finishing school exercise.
M. Veerendra Durga Prasad and K. Vijay Kumar joined Sai Krishna in giving the final shape to Yoga Trainer.
The apps are available in English, Japanese and Korean, and those in French and Spanish are in the pipeline. Besides offering yoga exercises, Yoga Trainer explains how to take a posture, how long to stay in that position, how to relax, and the diet regimen for some health conditions.
‘Message Translator'
Updates are released mostly to bring them into the ‘Just-in' section of the Marketplace, where a majority of people search for the new ones. The ‘Message Translator' can translate a message or mail into 22 languages and allows you to share it on Gmail, SMS, Blue Tooth, Facebook, or even over barcode. This app was developed by A. Durga Prasad and Ganganadh.
The students are confident of starting their own Android applications development unit, employing others too, for doing the work on a large scale, once they pass out of the university.
Thanq u all for ur valuable suggestions and appreciations.. we try to
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Excellent guys!!!!!!! i am a recent post-graduate. Now working as a trainee in android development company. I am interested to be in contact with you. can you give me your mail-ID or contact no.
This is excellent show by those students. Proves that entrepreneurs need not necessarily be from the top b-schools.
Very proud!,Great work. wishing all success for a good entrepreneurship start.
I am very happy to see young entrepreneurs from our country. Kudos to you guys and all the best. I also politely remind you to think big / dream high as this age is the best time to take more risks and achieve more.
First of all creating something like this requires hard work but impressive thing is in their ability to market it and come up with sound business model. I hope this snap of there's should be sought after in coming 15-20 years when they manage to make it really big ..)
nice job. continue with same spirit. best of luck
Great achievement by any standards by the students of NRIIT. Thanks also to Dr.Surendra Babu, TPO, NRIIT, for sending the link to different colleges. Certainly, a role model for other forward - looking colleges to follow.
Great news... Good going boys.. All the very best.
Good work.Keep going.
Bravo! for a bunch of college boys to come up with such good stuff in India is indeed refreshing. I hope such experiments continue to take place in today's educational institutions, as that is where a student lays his foundation for the future. It will be interesting if the Government takes this into consideration as it can leverage much of this technology to update its own programmes and policies and provide much sought after information through the internet. I have an idea, why not an RTI app? Any takers.
I really apreciate their boldness / confidence to avoid placement in private companies and do their own for the future of people.I am really encouraged and wish them goodluck for their future.
Great!
good news, perhaps android will b replaced by INDROID. Its really good news for Indian techies and entire india. big claps to the team
I am very interested in finding the cost of message translator.Please
let me know the languages it translates to and from
Great job guys...Good work. You know when most of the students try to download and use the apps, but you made a difference by making apps. People(students in engineering) rarely think about it. I know 99% of engineering colleges in andhra pradesh, quality of education is poor. I don,t think your college played a major role in your role. But still you did it. All the best.I hope to see you as pioneers in making unique apps from INDIA.
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