How to learn Android in 3 years, or the history of one application

Hello!

I want to tell you a story about how I became an Android developer. Not in the sense that I now make a living from this, but in the sense that out of a small interest in mobile development I have grown to my own application on PlayMarket. But more on that later. The story is a bit atypical. Although, probably, everyone has their own.

The purpose of the article is to throw out all the good things that have accumulated over several years of work on the project, as well as to share your story (suddenly, it will seem interesting to someone). Well, and get a little PR. I tried all the same, and not only for myself. Therefore, I will only talk about what I did myself, with or without help. Go.

Introduction

About 2-3 years ago, on New Year's holidays, I had free days, and I was thinking about what to do. In general, in programming and IT, I, one way or another, all my life, but I never wrote anything on mobile platforms. But drawn ... Anyway, we are all with the phone almost 24 hours a day. It is interesting to write what I need under it? Insanely interesting. Wait, what do I need? The throwing was not long and painful. The banal "halloworld" is boring to write even for one evening, so at first I wanted to parse the site with the schedule of movie sessions. But, after a quick googling, I immediately realized that all this has long been there. Reading programs have always stood apart for me, I have been using them since the days of communicators / handheld computers for WinCE. That is why the choice fell on the CoolReader project (hereinafter I will call it CR).

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