Lagos, Nigeria · Senior Android Engineer

Awodire Babajide Samuel.

I build native Android products from the first sketch through the Play Store — and the libraries, mentoring, and community that keep other developers shipping.

Portrait of Awodire Babajide Samuel
rhymezx.code Nigeria
8+ Years building native Android
5 Products published on Play
3 Open-source Android libraries
1 Community led, HackerCode

01 About

Native Android, taken all the way to production.

I’m a senior Android engineer with over eight years of experience creating mobile applications with the Android framework in Java and Kotlin.

I’ve taken products from an idea to a Play Store release — ride-hailing, healthcare booking, vendor tools, and field data collection — and I publish libraries other developers can drop into their own apps.

I lead HackerCode Community, mentor junior Android developers, and contribute through the Google Dev Library.

Languages

  • Kotlin
  • Java

Product engineering

  • MVVM
  • Single-activity
  • Hilt
  • Jetpack
  • Coroutines
  • RxJava
  • Firebase
  • Google Maps
  • Socket.IO

Quality

  • JUnit
  • Espresso
  • Robolectric
  • Git

Alongside the code

  • Mentorship
  • Community leadership
  • Open-source libraries
  • Technical writing

02 Practice

Four ways I show up.

01

Android developer

I build native Android apps for businesses.

02

Open source

Community lead at HackerCode, where most of my open-source work gets pushed. HackerCode

03

Mentor

I mentor junior Android developers setting a new turn in their career path.

03 Work

Selected products, tools, and libraries.

22 projects

LifeLens
Application 2026

LifeLens

Point a phone at an object and get context: specs and prices, food macros, or a plain-language explanation.

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Android Project Template
Tool 2026

Android Project Template

A reusable Android foundation: modular MVVM, convention plugins, dependency injection, tests, and CI.

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Disk Space Monitor
Tool 2026

Disk Space Monitor

A floating Linux widget that shows live disk usage for every real partition, including USB and NTFS mounts.

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Android Agent Project Kit
Tool 2026

Android Agent Project Kit

One command that drops Android coding standards into a repo for Codex, Claude, and Cursor.

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Ubuntu Automation
Tool 2026

Ubuntu Automation

Daily maintenance, weekly cleanup, and system audits for an Android engineer’s Ubuntu machine.

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MyFood
Application 2025

MyFood

A Compose app for browsing and creating food items, with categories, tags, and images.

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Expense Tracker
Application 2023

Expense Tracker

A small expense tracker built with Jetpack Compose and MVVM.

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Weather App
Application 2023

Weather App

A weather app wired to an API with dependency injection and Retrofit.

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SpamDetector
Application 2022

SpamDetector

Scans incoming SMS and notifies you when a message looks like spam, with a threshold score.

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Twitter UI Clone
Application 2022

Twitter UI Clone

A from-scratch Twitter interface, built so beginners can see how a complex UI is put together.

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Currency Converter
Application 2022

Currency Converter

Convert between currencies by their codes, using the fixer.io API.

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Color Interpreter
Application 2021

Color Interpreter

Reads color codes out of an image.

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Card Information Finder
Application 2020

Card Information Finder

Look up your own card’s brand, type, bank, and country from the BIN, by typing or scanning the number.

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Polyconnect
Web 2019

Polyconnect

A social network for polytechnic students. This was my HND final-year project.

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nRyde rider app
Application 2022 — present

nRyde

Comfort-first ride hailing, taken from idea to a public beta with MVVM, maps, and live updates.

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Raventreat vendor app
Application 2021

Raventreat

Vendor tools for restaurants and gift shops receiving orders from raventreat.com.

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Carekojo healthcare booking
Application 2020 — 2021

Carekojo

Healthcare appointments booked from home, published on Google Play.

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Datakojo data collection
Application 2020 — 2021

Datakojo

Digital forms that let teams start collecting data as soon as the questions are in.

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BHCPF assessment platform
Application 2020 — 2021

BHCPF

Mobile data collection for surveys, analysis, and supervision in the field.

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NetworkStateObserver library
Library Nov 2022

NetworkStateObserver

Network state and reachability, including the case where the radio is up but there is no data.

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SimpleStore library
Library Dec 2022

SimpleStore

Shared preferences or DataStore, with optional encryption switched on from the builder.

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TrackMe library
Library Dec 2022

TrackMe

Current location as latitude, longitude, and a place name you can use directly.

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04 Writing

Notes from the field.

05 Talks

Slides I still stand behind.

06 Contact

Tell me what you’re building.

Product work, a library question, or a mentorship conversation — send a note and I’ll reply by email.

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