I am starting to open source my old Android games.

The first one to bite the dust is : Crate Jump

   Cat-a-log has a new release (3.1).

- Updated to Jetpack Compose 1.5 which brought performance improvements and nice new navigation animations. 

- Some minor UI adjustments. 

- Slightly decreased apk size - by about 1Mb.

  Cat-a-log has a new release. 

Tech stack: Kotlin, coroutines, Flow, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, Room, DataStore, Retrofit, Moshi, Mockito. The project source is using CLEAN Architecture principles and UDF.

You can find more apps here.

 SpeakIt has a new maintenance release (6.4). Android 13 compatibility updates.

Tried to create AMP pages with Remix with no luck. Starting to look at next.js instead. 

 watchmis.com: implemented the Compare feature. If you find any issues please report them here. :-)

Finally a new version of watchmis.com happened. It's WIP and a huge list of features is waiting.

Re-wrote everything from Spring/MVC to remix-run / React / Tailwind. 

Half of my daily unique users (about 300 per day at the time of writing) are from mobile platforms so a mobile-first design was given a priority.

Deployed on a Digital Ocean droplet, automatically running the process on every restart using pm2.

Also migrated all of the data from Postgres SQL to SQLite. After a trial period will uninstall Postgres SQL from the Digital Ocean droplet freeing resources. No more user access issues. 

 

Note the pre-fetch feature - if you hover over a link then the page starts to load in the background. If you decide to visit the link after a while that page is already there :-)

remix-run is an excellent tool for the full-stack job! Love it!

 Another weekend project built with - a ReactJS app that allows you to mint Solana NFTs.

https://cannonades.com/nft/candy-drop

Got my fifth NFT for finishing the project: https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x3CD266509D127d0Eac42f4474F57D0526804b44e/5127?force_update=true

SpeakIt 6.1.1 maintenace release. Fixed some colors, navigation and minor UI fixes.

 Crate Jump has a new release. Some minor fixes and removed almost all adds.

World Of Cats has a new release. Re-written totally from scratch using Kotlin, Jetpack, MVVM. Taking advantage of coroutines for non-blocking. Glide for image loading. Caching everything with Room. HTTP requests populate the local database. And UI observes the db, as per Google recommendations. Works offline like a charm. Loads instantly! No bugs! (that last one was a joke)

SpeakIt 6.1

SpeakIt has a new release. Added support for Dark Theme. Several minor Android 10 compatibility updates.

Re-written from scratch in Kotlin, using MVVM and Jetpack. 

SpeakIt version v5.1 is out (just two days after releasing v5.0).

- Added a sound recorder. 
- The UI has been rewritten.
- Latest versions of all of the third party libs.
- A bunch of maintenance fixes.

Consistency for iOS new release

Consistency for iOS has a new version, 2.0. 

Raise The Tower for iOS new release

Raise The Tower for iOS has a new release, version 2.0

Amazon Watches Finder Release

watchmis.com , the Amazon Watches Finder, is having a production release today.

(Disclaimer: watchmis.com is not a 'business' project. It is using data scraped from Internet and it is more of a technical endeavor to have a production pipeline continuously tested and modified.)

Built with Django, django-bootstrap3, Django Froala WYSIWYG Editor, Sendgrid. Hosted on a Digitalocean Ubuntu Droplet.

The choice of a framework for this side project was not obvious at all. I'm doing Android native development since 2009, all sorts of Java since 2006 and Java is my friend. So a framework like Play might seem a better option... until you look at the hosting, that is.

The cheapest droplet on Digitalocean costs $5/Months and it has 512 MB of RAM. The droplet can be upgraded anytime to a higher category. Exactly what a needed to start a project as unpretentious as possible while keeping the potential to grow fast.

Crate Jump iOS release

Crate Jump is available on iTunes.

Built with libgdx and robovm.

Raise The Tower iOS release

Raise The Tower is now available on iTunes. 

 

Built with libgdx and robovm.

new versions for Speak It & Random People

SpeakIt for Android verison 4.2.2 released:

• removed intersitial ads
• modified back navigation from the ‘More Apps’ section

Random People has a new version 4.0.2 too:

• removed intersitial ads
• reduced apk size
• some navigation fixes

Catsii 1.1 release

Catsii for Android has an new version 1.1 release. Several minor fixes.