Google to host Hackathon 2014 in Benglore
Google india is going to arranging the two day workshop called as Hackathon on Tomorrow (21-22 February)in IT city Benglore.The aim of this hackathon is to give focus on on designing and creating Android applications in regional Indian languages.The hackathon workshop, which is expected to see about 100 developers participating, is open to both amateur and professional developers.
Google published a statement saying "The aim is to promote regional languages and develop applications for Internet users who communicate and understand only their native language with a view to encouraging more users to come online"
"The next 300 million Internet users in India won't use English. That's why we're working on enabling the Internet in Indian languages, which is the key to driving growth," Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan said.
This technical session covers all the topics for creating and adapting technology to promote native indian languages in Android applications, also all the processes of enabling the existing applications to support multiple languages are get covered in this Hackathon'14
The objective of the sessions is to enable better understanding of the growing Internet user base in India and the opportunity it represents for the developers and help them to build valuable skills, Anandan added.
