Project Summary
Afrisis was contracted to develop a J2ME application support by the OpenRosa consortium, called JavaRosa. The task leveraged on pre-existing knowledge in J2ME development pushed to the next level of standards and best practices. The main goal of the project was to develop a new generic application that could leverage the latest version of the JavaRosa library to implement a general mobile surveying j2me application compliant to the OpenRosa standard, targeted to lower end devices. The application was successfully developed in the contracted time frame and a 1.0 alpha release is already available to the worldwide community for evaluation. The application aims to be a basic j2me client for the Javarosa-core XForms engine that can be used in a wide variety of situations. In the current release, the features are: Form Entry, Interactive form downloading from server; Form submission; Complete Internationalization support (in both the application and XForms themselves); Multimedia support (audio + images in XForms); Fully OpenRosa Compatible.
In addition, Afrisis has support quality assurance and testing in mobile data collection on the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform running on Android Phones. The project involved both stress and logic testing; the tasks provided new exposure to the Android phone environment. That project triggered different Afrisis internal projects on researching Android as platform for delivering services upon that might be further developed in the future.
In both projects highly expert Dimagi staff was assigned to work in partnership with Afrisis wich contributed with invaluable mentorship and deep technical insights. This collaboration helped the company to get a deeper understanding of mobile development state of the art tools and technologies that can make a notable contribution to the Mozambique local IT ecosystem.
Company Summary
AfriSis Lda. is a startup company created in 2007 to provide innovative products and consultancy services on software development in Mozambique.
The vision of the company is to provide the market with the best possible solution and services, contributing to the enhancement of software development and implementation. We plan on achieving this aim exposed in terms of vision by being on the cutting edge of IT research and development.
Our clients list range from various Mozambique Ministries, Telco related companies, financial institutions, research institutes (both private and government institutes) and leading NGO’s in both health and socio-economic areas.
Afrisis has developed and deployed end to end(mobile, touch-screen kiosks, sms’s, desktop, web) software solutions across all provinces of Mozambique.
Programmers are also actively involved in open source initiatives in micro finance (Mifos) and mobile health (JavaRosa) submitting code, patches, support, localization and other contributes to the community. Other side interests of the staff include regular participation in topcoder algorithm competition, robocup 2D team development and data mining.