Spent some time learning to program with Android Studio. The emulator is quite decent and deploying to my old Huawei P30 phone was also a piece of cake. I wrote a Tinder clone from scratch including the back end - see screen recording video above. Everything was production ready but I decided against publishing it on the Playstore, as Google is changing its requirements for apps weekly and I would soon become their slave. Meanwhile earning very little from the app and continuously needing to write new improved code to satisfy their never ending data privacy rules and terms of service additions. I wanted to avoid even the slightest risk of law suits as the Match Group has basically patented any swipe based matching. On top of all of that I hate dating apps myself and another app for the same purpose, even if completely free would not save dating in 2024. Online dating basically died around 2016. The sole purpose of this project was the joy of programming across platforms using the latest and greatest technologies.

Last modified on 2023-03-01