Adventures in Android Development

from hobby to play store

RoidRage

• Released in July 2011
• Avg. rating 4.57
• 493,124 downloads
• ~ 2 months

Glimmr

• Released in September 2012
• Avg. rating 4.36
• 102,227 downloads
• ~ 3 months

Now Open Source

Why write an app?

I could do better than that...

You can!

A lot of Android apps suck

Getting Started

Initial Commit

• One Activity

android.app.Activity;

• One Fragment

android.app.Fragment;

• Viewpager

android.support.v4.view.ViewPager

Style Guide

Development

Android has great libraries

android-query

Picasso

          Picasso.with(context).load("http://i.imgur.com/DvpvklR.png").into(imageView);
        

Network Retries

Tape

Shipping

Feedback

Localisation

Summary

• Start Simple
• Don't reinvent the wheel
• Have fun

Thanks