Two teen brothers build mobile web browser

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 Ikhianosine and Anesi Ikhianosime

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

100 to 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.