CryptoConvert Pro: Price Change 2021 Announcement

December 4, 2020
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App Updates / Announcements

  A brief announcement that starting 2021, the price of CryptoConvert Pro will be increasing to $2.99 USD. 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and a lot has changed in a very short time. One benefit of spending several months in strict quarantine this year is that I’ve been able to spend loads of time working on CryptoConvert. Recently I took some time to review exactly how much the app has changed since the start of the year.…

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A Proposal to Improve Phishing Security for Major Social Media Providers Supporting 3rd Party Integration

July 17, 2020
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General / Miscellaneous

  It seems like every day I see headlines for a new security breach with the potential to affect millions of people and result in untold financial damage. Take yesterday’s Twitter breach for example – where hackers tweeted on behalf of influential political figures and celebrities such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, and Kanye West with a Bitcoin donation scam promising that they would double any Bitcoin payments sent to the supplied wallet address. It’s been…

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Side Project Time Hacks – Automated Android App Screenshots

May 8, 2020
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Android Tutorials, Side Project Time Hacks

  In today’s Side Project Time Hack post, I’m covering how I’ve automated the process of taking new store listing screenshots for my Android apps and showing how much time the automation saves me.   Across everything involved in developing and maintaining a mobile app, I challenge you to find a task more tedious than keeping the store listing screenshots up to date. Screenshots are among the best tools you have to convince potential new users to click ‘Download’ on…

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GitUpdated – Automating My Git Repository Maintenance with Python

July 19, 2019
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Side Project Time Hacks

  GitUpdated: A command line tool for easily managing and updating multiple git repos. Part of my Side Project Time Hack series. I’ve accumulated quite the menagerie of Git repositories throughout the years and recently I’ve found myself doing more work on-the-go. Nowadays I am frequently switching between a laptop when traveling and a desktop PC or home server when home. It became a nuisance to work on these codebases from each of my different environments. For example, if I…

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100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers

January 24, 2019
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Android Tutorials, General / Miscellaneous, Guides / Lists

  100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers   Last month I reached a significant milestone for my Android portfolio by surpassing 100k app downloads across my Google Play account. I’ve been publishing Android apps to the Play Store since 2015 and working on Android projects since 2014 – giving me nearly 5 years of experience with the platform. The milestone got me thinking about my early projects and how awful they were, along with all the lessons I…

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How to View Total App Installs Count on Google Play 2020

November 6, 2018
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Android Tutorials, Guides / Lists

  How to View Total App Install Count on Google Play 2020   Note: This post was originally published 11-6-2018, but has since been updated for 2020.   Preface Perhaps the most basic statistic that app developers track about their projects is their cumulative lifetime installs over time. In other words, how many unique installs has an app received throughout it’s lifetime on the app store? For Android apps published on Google Play, this metric used to be fairly easy…

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Side Project Time Hacks: Automating Android App Performance Reports

August 12, 2018
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Side Project Time Hacks

Side Project Time Hacks: Automating Android App Performance Reports   Introduction: The most recent post in my series on Side Project Time Hacks was about how I automated my Android apps’ store listing descriptions with a small program written in an afternoon. While I’ve already saved several hours with that tool since I finished it, I felt that the following side project time hack project needed to be something of larger scale in order to better demonstrate the breadth of…

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Side Project Time Hacks: Automating My Apps’ Store Listings

July 27, 2018
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Side Project Time Hacks

    Side Project Time Hacks: Automating My Apps’ Store Listings   In my last post, I introduced the concept of programming small personal utilities as a means to improve your efficiency in order to squeeze more time out of the day. I also explained that it really doesn’t take much programming knowledge or experience at all to create something that makes a significant impact on your day to day operations. As my first post in this indefinite series, I’d…

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Side Project Time Hacks: Series Introduction

July 25, 2018
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Side Project Time Hacks

  Side Project Time Hacks: Series Introduction   Introduction Throughout the past few years of working on side projects outside of a full time career, I’ve often come across a somewhat annoying problem: there never seems to be enough time in each day to get the things I need to do done.   I eventually got so fed up with my “to-do list” growing faster than I could cross things off that I decided to investigate the problem and see if…

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