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Thanks for the suggestion to do something like this! I've never made a mobile app but would love to learn how. Even if it's not to contribute to a high quality Android app for this radar thing, choosing to spend some of my time porting anything like it which also falls into the "An app can be a home-cooked meal"[0] paradigm likely means that grokking the code will be easier than with because it will be programmed with a singular vision/paradigm and lack bloat/adware/tracking/etc which would complicate reading and understanding the existing code.

This suggestion may put me on the road to find some renewed joy in programming.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423



Honestly I was hoping to inspire something like this; where someone wants to learn to build something interesting that isn't just another todo app tutorial

If you do want to build it, I'm happy to share the iOS source with you!


I actually started trying to port it to Android after your first post. Only managed to get a compass prototype working though... might revisit the project soon!

[0] https://git.pixelfy.nl/koen_hendriks/airvoyager


Sure thing, thank you! And totally happy if other efforts either beat me to it and/or create a much more professional port than my own.

reaperman_hn@protonmail.com


I too have a toddler, so I don't have a lot of time, but I am motivated to help. tbelaire on GitHub, but I have only done a little android before.




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