Rwandan designs mobile app to market social life

A Rwandan living in Germany has built a mobile phone application that markets Rwanda’s lifestyle hotspots. Sangwa Rwabuhihi  said the application, called StyleGuide Afropolitan, features all the showbiz happening around Rwanda, with detailed information about location, theme and schedule.

Monday, May 06, 2013

A Rwandan living in Germany has built a mobile phone application that markets Rwanda’s lifestyle hotspots.Sangwa Rwabuhihi  said the application, called StyleGuide Afropolitan, features all the showbiz happening around Rwanda, with detailed information about location, theme and schedule."It also shows a user all the best lifestyle places located in one’s area, from restaurants to fashion shops and nightclubs,” said Sangwa, a software engineering student.Application aidesThe application, which was officially released yesterday, can be downloaded from Google Play for people using phones and tablets that use the Android operating system.Google Play is a digital application distribution platform for Android and an online electronics store developed and maintained by Google, while Android is an operating system designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices such as Smartphones and tablet computers."As of now, this is purely a Rwandan application with features of what happens in Rwanda, but with a continental ambition,” added Sangwa.

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