martes, 24 de abril de 2012

I'm back

It's been a lot of time since the first post. Two days after I wrote it, I started a new job with a long commute that took away a big part of my free time. For more than 3 months I had very little for my mobile journey. Now that I'm out of that job, I'm happy to be back.

I've been working hard in version 1.2.0 of Month Calendar Widget. Feeling astonished about the feedback received from its users, and spurred by its fantastic growth (more than 150K downloads now and growing!), I've put a great effort in two of the most requested features. Version 1.2.0 it's due today tomorrow (see EDIT) in Google Play!

To all who waited for updates, thanks for your patience. And to those who expected an answer to their e-mails, I'm catching up with them right now. Sorry for the prolonged silence.

EDIT May 2: Shame on me for giving an exceedingly optimistic release date, but I've just finished fixing some annoying bugs in version 1.2.0. Final testing now. Soon in Google Play!

martes, 3 de enero de 2012

First post

I had to fight bravely to overcome my laziness and start writing this blog. The time has come finally :)

About one year ago, I realized my career as a software professional was getting more and more boring. The opportunities to be creative with what I was doing at that time were minimal. Then I asked myself: why not explore a new field, one where I can pursue what I love most, creating useful software applications? With the technology world going increasingly mobile, it was clear that in mobile I had a fantastic opportunity to relaunch my programming career.

The purpose of this blog is to share my experience since taking that decision. I plan to post here regularly about the things I learn while creating mobile applications: what worked, what didn't, the joys, the pains, the "a-ha" moments, the roadblocks, everything around my mobile developer journey. And of course, I will write about the (hopefully great) apps created in the process. I expect this blog will also be a means to communicate with the apps' users.

By the way, my first steps in the mobile world were with Android. Specifically, I started with a humble app, published in the Android Market in May 2011, that surprisingly had a good reception: over 55,000 downloads to date, and growing. I hope it's only the beginning, as I plan to continue making progress in Android and try other platforms too.

Well, now it's time to think in the second post.

See you soon!