Android

I don’t know if its because I’m now settled into the dad life or what, but I’ve been taking on more personal projects lately, working on them until I loose interest or find something else. Of course, leaving them in various states of completion, some times returning later. Sometimes its just lack of motivation, sometimes I hit a wall, a few cases are delays since continuing requires hardware or something that costs money. Sometimes its just lack of time. A big part of it is the problems I’m working on don’t hold my interest or seem of little point. I seem to be working on tutorials or guides, or very little that isn’t already well tread. I want to learn new skills, but I also want to solve real problems, or tangible improvments to something. I’d love to get involved in some real projects (but I can’t commit due to time), not run through a tutorial that gives me an example program to write that no one would actually use. That said, here is what I have in the hopper that I’ve slowly been trudging through.

In the last year I’ve been picking up more and more Java, I did this for two reasons.

The most personal one is that I wanted to learn how to write Android programs. First, because I own an Android phone, second, the mobile platform is a platform where a small individual developer can write useful apps and there obviously is demand and a future for such skills on the market as well.