Tag: android
All the articles with the tag "android".
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Guide · Ismi Is this baby name in the Quran? How to check a name's meaning and source properly
A practical method for verifying a Muslim baby name: find the Arabic root, look it up in the Quranic Arabic Corpus, distinguish a real occurrence from a look-alike word, and check the meaning against a dictionary rather than a forum. Plus the app that has already done this for 1,826 names.
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Why it exists · ADB Remote Why I built ADB Remote: the thirty-second IDE launch for a three-second command
Android Studio is the right tool for writing code and the wrong tool for pulling a file. ADB Remote is the window in between: logcat, Gradle, device files, screenshot diffs and Git checkouts as a native macOS app built with Compose Multiplatform for desktop. Why a desktop GUI, what it wraps, and why it's signed and notarized.
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Why it exists · Mantra Why I built Mantra: your own words on the lock screen, and the Android bug where setting a wallpaper kills your Activity
Affirmation apps push other people's quotes; wallpaper changers have no words. Mantra is the gap between them. The Play Store keyword that decided the name, the Material You re-theme that recreates your Activity a second after you set a wallpaper, WorkManager's first-run surprise, adaptive scrims from luminance stats, and why user photos are never paywalled.
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Why it exists · QuestLog Why I built QuestLog: a game backlog tracker with a roulette wheel, and the API that died halfway through
The Friday-night problem: more games saved than played, and an hour spent choosing. QuestLog's roulette wheel, why time-to-beat is the most important field in the app, what happened when RAWG shut down mid-build and IGDB replaced it, shipping a Kotlin Multiplatform codebase to Google Play, and two Compose bugs that cost real days.