Team Management

I built a free full-stack auth starter so you can skip "auth week" (Flutter + FastAPI)

Every side project I've started died a little during the same seven days: auth week. You know the drill. Login screen, register screen, forgot passwor…

How to block apps on Android without an AccessibilityService

Almost every app blocker on the Play Store is built on an AccessibilityService . It's the obvious choice: you get a callback every time a window chang…

Google Play Requires Android 16 (API Level 36) by August 31, 2026 — React Native Migration Guide

Google Play has announced that starting August 31, 2026, all new apps and app updates must target Android 16 (API level 36). If you're maintaining a R…

Architecting for Zero-Network Dependencies: Challenges in Offline-Only Geofencing

It happened during a quiet midday prayer. The mosque was silent, the atmosphere heavy with focus, and then—the unmistakable, high-pitched trill of a r…

Recruiting 12 Real Testers for Your Google Play Closed Test (Without Buying Them)

Buying testers fails three ways: Play's fraud detection flags dormant accounts , bought testers never open the app (so engagement doesn't count), and …

The design work you must finish before Google Play's 14-day closed test

Google Play's 14-day closed test isn't just an ops requirement — it's 14 days when real people will use your app for the first time. If your design is…

I Built Pay Splitter to Make Group Expenses Less Awkward

Ever been on a trip where everyone keeps asking: "Who paid for lunch?" "How much do I owe?" "Can someone calculate everything?" I've been there more t…

🚀 I Built a Expense Splitting App Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

🚀 I Built a Bill Splitting App Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript After spending time splitting travel and group expenses manually, I decided to build a…

Building Recourse.ai: A Parametric Insurance Prototype for the Age of Agentic AI

Every enterprise I've talked to in the last year has the same story: AI agents are being deployed faster than risk and compliance teams can review the…

Your Paywall May Not Be the Leak: Audit These 5 Subscription Handoffs First

A subscription app can have a polished paywall and still lose the sale somewhere else. The store listing may attract the wrong intent. Onboarding may …

I got tired of paying for premium AI Chatbot, so I built a completely free alternative for Android/Windows.

techambient / HybridAI HybridAI is a free, open-source AI powered entirely by HybridAI Intelligence 1.0, available across Web, Android, and Windows. A…

Nobody Painted That Rectangle Black

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…

5 mistakes I made building my first Android app (and how I fixed them)

I'm not a developer. I build Android apps on evenings and weekends using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot and Claude). My latest app, ScorePop, is…

What Makes Healthcare App Testing Different from Every Other App Category

A patient opens their prescription and sees 500mg instead of 50mg. A lab report displays "Normal" when the value is critically high. A teleconsult dis…

One Tap, Public URL: Building an Android App for Secure Port Forwarding

As developers, we've all been there. You have a web server, API, dashboard, or IoT service running locally, and you need to share it with someone outs…

More Surfaces, Same Deal: Cars, Sensors, Commerce, Video And Builds

Last week's release post was about funding open source without the bait and switch. This week's release tests that idea again, because two of the new …

[Android] Pray First — a prayer app that locks distracting apps until you pray (looking for beta testers)

I’ve been building a Christian prayer app called Pray First, and I’m looking for people to help test it before launch. The idea: instead of scrolling …

Testing In-App Chat and Customer Support Flows in Delivery Apps

The help button is the most important button in your delivery app that your QA team almost never clicks during regression. Every delivery app has an i…

Hello World! 👋 I'm Pablo, Android Dev & Creator of Aura Finance

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Pablo Martín, a Mobile Engineer and Android Architect based in Spain. For over 5 years, I’ve been building, scaling, and leading na…

🔥 I Built an ESP32 Smart Bike Control System with an Android App (Open Source)

🚀 I Built an ESP32 Smart Bike Control System with an Android App (Open Source) What if your motorcycle could become a smart vehicle without replacing …

Shifting Mobile Security Left: Applying SAST to Android Apps with MobSF

TL;DR — I took an intentionally vulnerable Android application, ran the static analysis engine of MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) via a local Docker…

Designing Consent-Based Location Sharing in Flutter

Most location apps are built around persistence. Always-on. Always-visible. Always-running. When I started building WIN RAK, I wanted the opposite. No…

How I built a zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage app: the complete crypto architecture

For the past two years I've been building Silvora - a zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage app - entirely solo, alongside a full-time job as a progr…

Developer Verification – LineageOS

Apple locked hearing assistance inside AirPods. So I built an open-source version for any earbuds.

In 2024, Apple shipped something genuinely great: AirPods Pro can run a clinical-style hearing test and then act as hearing assistance, tuned to your …

Strix: Give Your App a Free AI Pentester Before It Ships

If you have ever pushed code to production and quietly hoped nobody probes it too hard, this project is for you. Strix is an open-source tool that run…

Топ-10 вопросов с Android-собеседований в 2026 — с разборами

Думаю, многие из нас успели заметить стремительное изменение рынка в последние пару лет: он плавно превратился из рынка соискателя в рынок нанимателя …

Stop Rebuilding Offline Sync in Every Android App: Introducing OfflineSyncKit

As Android developers, we've all built applications that need to work without an internet connection. Whether it's a Point of Sale (POS) system, healt…

Is It Actually Worth Enforcing Privacy Consent On-Device in Android?

If you are an Android developer, you probably groan every time a product manager brings up "privacy compliance" or "consent banners." We all want to r…

Native Linux, Apple Watch, A Game Builder And Crash Protection

This week brings a native Linux desktop port, an Apple Watch and Wear OS port, a visual Game Builder with a high-level gaming API, and a new crash-pro…