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OAU celebrates girl who built android watch that tells time in Yoruba

The Yoruba wrist watch

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi, who built an android watch that tells time in Yoruba Language have been celebrated by foremost University –the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi studied Computer Science from the institution. She is now a Software Engineer at Swifta Systems and also a co-organizer at Google Developers Group.

One Friday evening after work, she had an aha moment. She looked at a clock and thought “What if it could tell the time in Yoruba?”. That question has lead to the development of an Android Watch Face that tells time in Yoruba language.

The inventor Moyinoluwa Adeyemi

It wasn’t simple as a,b,c, she had to get ideas from some of her friends and do extensive research before she came up with a working prototype. It will probably be the first ever indigenous watch face app on the google play store.

Yoruba Watch Faces by Moyin is a collection of Watch Faces built in a popular local Nigerian dialect. There are currently two Watch Faces in the collection both of which are in Yoruba Language. The illustrations were created by @TheVunderkind and they depict a man and a woman dressed in the traditional Yoruba attire. The Watch Faces work on all screen types; chin, square and circle.See the watch face below.

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