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by buliam 3109 days ago
I made a GTA V cover maker app right around the time when GTA V came out. The app allowed you to put your own images into a GTA V style cover (like this [1]. And here's a custom cover made with the app [2]). The challenging part about this was that there was no way to work with non-rectangular View on Android, so I had to draw everything directly to the canvas. Because of that there was also a lot of mucking around with low level bitmaps and matrix transforms. That was the first app I made when I was learning Android development.

Then I made a minimalist ToDo app for Android.

Next I made a public transit live timetable app to learn iOS, which was pretty much dead on arrival when I released it, as the local transit company released an app with all my features and more right before I released mine (I took way too long to release that anyway). Neither of those is in the Play or App store anymore.

Right now I am working on http://madewithreactnative.com where I interview developers and teams about their experience creating apps with React Native.

I’ve also had started other side projects, most of which have never seen the light of day however.

[1] https://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames/img/global/new... [2] https://i.imgur.com/M7AesBj.png?1