During a period of downtime, one does need to be practicing their skills so as to stay relevant once downtime is over. Such a time, for me, is while I'm on paternity leave. My kids are getting all the time they want from me, but they do sleep a lot, and I get these 60 to 180 min windows where I am free to do chores, sleep, eat, read, etc. So, I thought, why not hack up an app during this time.
All my previous app ideas (which ended up on the play store) were apps that were meant to serve some purpose offline. Three were note taking apps or a game (my take on Minesweeper). Thus, I had to research which APIs are freely available online. This Github project lists quite a few APIs which can be used to implement any sort of app (Android/iOS/web).
I have quite a few apps that access multiple open api endpoints such as DarkSky, Flickr, Google Cloud Vision, etc. but never managed to publish those. Today, I came across the Zomato API which lets the developer be quite adventurous. Hence, for me, this is my next dummy project.
All my previous app ideas (which ended up on the play store) were apps that were meant to serve some purpose offline. Three were note taking apps or a game (my take on Minesweeper). Thus, I had to research which APIs are freely available online. This Github project lists quite a few APIs which can be used to implement any sort of app (Android/iOS/web).
I have quite a few apps that access multiple open api endpoints such as DarkSky, Flickr, Google Cloud Vision, etc. but never managed to publish those. Today, I came across the Zomato API which lets the developer be quite adventurous. Hence, for me, this is my next dummy project.
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