The
duo of Osine Ikhianosime and Anesi Ikhianosime have rekindled hope in
the future of nigeria as they entered their names in the catalogue of
application developers when they built a mobile web browser that is
already in use globally.
Osine
Ikhianosime 13, and Anesi Ikhianosime 15 who co-developed ‘Crocodile
Browser Lite’ were born of same parents and both are Year nine and 11
students of Greensprings School, Anthony Campus, Lagos. While both
brothers write code, Anesi designs the user interface.
Osine
and Anesi launched the mobile browser on the Mobango app store before
moving to Google Play Store to try and reach a wider audience. As you
read this piece, the browser currently has around 500 downloads and they
do not have ads in the app yet. They both began developing an Android
web browser, which they named Crocodile Browser Lite, about a year ago
out of boredom.
Due to their strong interest in technology, they
decided to create a functional, fast browser for feature and low end
phones because, according to them, “We were fed up with Google Chrome.”
Osine who told TechCabal in his pitch mail said: ‘’I write the code, my brother designs it.”
Born
April 28, 2001, his interest in computers began at age seven. It was
also at this age that he and his brother, Anesi Ikhianosime, who was 9
at the time, came up with the idea of starting a company.
Recalling
how it started, Osine said, they first named it ‘Doors’ with
Microsoft’s Windows, but when they discovered that the name was already
in use, they had to change the name to BluDoors. Relating his
experience, Osine said: ‘’When we decided to learn to code at age 12 and
14 respectively, I didn’t let my uncle’s belief that it would be a
tough feat to achieve deter me.”
On his part, Anesi said: “I
learnt to code by myself. I started in 2013, I used sites like Code
Academy, Code Avengers and books like ‘Android for Game Development’ and
‘Games for Dummies’,” said Anesi. Meanwhile their mother, Mrs Ngozi
Ikhianosime, who is a Mathematics teacher said: “Osine could already use
a PC before he could read at age three. It is all he does since he
learnt to code.”
The mother who ascribed the success to
Greensprings Schools, said students of the school have access to
computer and internet facilities, just as personal laptops are made
available to each of them at home. “After Anesi is through with his
secondary school education, he will attend A levels, after which he will
go to MIT in Boston for his first degree, because the university has
the facilities he needs to learn.” She said.
Their father Mr
Philip Ikhianosime, who is the Head of Management Services and Human
Resource Manager at an Insurance Company says the boys developed
interest in PC usage very early. He agrees as well, that his children’s
school is very instrumental in their continued interest in programming.
Anesi
says that he’d like to develop another app that solves real social
problems, such as traffic and communication. The brothers are releasing a
new version of Crocodile Browser Lite 3.0 this April.
Credit: Dayo Adesulu/Vanguard
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