Amanda Roos

Thanks to the person from Milwaukee, WI who recently bought my donation app! To everyone who has supported my Android apps, whether through donations or other app purchases, thank you! It means a lot to know that the work I'm doing is appreciated! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandafarrell.www.donationfordeveloper_blue

I've been working with Kotlin for a while now, but I haven't started learning to use Jetpack Compose yet. Time to get started learning a new way to make the UI for Andriod apps! I'm excited! The Android team at Google put out a new FREE course as of April 2022: Android Basics with Compose:  https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-compose/course

I love making Android apps. It's a great way to learn how to code! It gives you great projects to work on that can increase in complexity as you become more confident with programming. In this video, I go through the parts of a basic counter app for Android and how it looks in Andriod Studio. To get started, download Andriod Studio here: https://developer.android.com/studio To get the code I used in this example, check out the git hub repository I made for this example app. Feel free to copy and paste this code to make things easier! https://github.com/amandaroos/ExampleCounterApp I know this video is quick, so let me know if you have questions! And even if you don't, let me know if you try it out. I'd love to hear how it goes for you. I learned to make Android apps with Udacity.com, where there are free courses that were developed with Google. Check that out here: https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-create-anything-in-android--ud802   There are also courses directly from...

I've decided to start making monthly-ish posts for my app download milestones. I was thinking of making the milestones be whenever the numbers double, but that's too complicated, so I'll post when the downloads hit orders of magnitude of 1, 2 and 5.  Latitude and Longitude Free, No ads App preview video:

  Panda ABCs has now been published for 1 month! I have loved seeing everyone's reactions to the pandas.  Copies are available in paperback or on Kindle from Amazon. For a dive behind the scenes, you can check out this video to watch a time-lapse of how I drew each page:

Easy, 100-row, reversible beanie! I'm using acrylic yarn, a combination of Michael's craftsmart yarn and RedHeart, and a 48-pin knitting machine. Pattern:  20 rows black 2 orange  2 black 2 light gray 2 black 2 dark gray 40 black 2 dark gray 2 black 2 light gray 2 black  2 turquoise 20 black

Time for some app stats! Time Progress Bars app was released on the Google Play Store in October 2020. Total downloads - 3007 Active downloads - 905 2022 revenue - $31.64 My share of 2022 revenue - $25.31 Total revenue - $54.71 My share of total revenue - $34.23 Revenue is from an in-app purchase that lets users change the color scheme and an in-app donation purchase.

  Countdown the days until the date and time you choose!  Simple design, no ads, no permissions. Small download size. Available in 100+ languages! Days Until with Widget on Google Play:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandaroos.daysuntilapp

  I made the original app while cashiering at Walmart (I took free Android classes through Udacity.com). I have heard from many people with math disabilities who say it has really helped! This update is to add $100, $50, and $2 for the Canadians out there. Enjoy! Upgrade:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandafarrell.www.changecalculatorpaid Original:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandfarrell.www.changecalculator -Quick change entry -Checkboxes for bills and coins in the upgrade version -Available in 100+ languages -Now includes more bill types! -Both versions are ad-free and small download size -Original version is open source and available on GitHub:  https://github.com/amandaroos/ChangeCalculator

  I'm excited to release an upgrade version for my most popular app: Scorekeeper! Download now from Google Play:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandafarrell.scorekeeperupgrade Upgrade Version Features: -Easy one-screen interface -Quick to set up with one tap to add a player -One tap to edit score or change player name -Dark mode matches system settings 🕶️ -Screen stays on (option to turn off in settings) -Available in 100+ languages Try the original app for free:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandafarrell.www.scorekeeper

About my journey so far: I created my OpenSea account about two weeks ago. It cost me about $100 to get started: $20 in transaction fees to get Etherium into my MetaMask wallet and then about $80 in Etherium gas fees to create my first collection. I used this website to watch gas prices for a couple of days to see when gas prices tended to be lowest: https://ethgasstation.info/ Since then I have been uploading a few panda NFTs every day. I have been working on my 1000 pandas project, so I have almost 100 panda images as a backlog ready to upload as NFTs. Once I've caught up with my backlog I will create the NFTs as I create the pandas. When I create an NFT, I have been creating a supply of 1000 for each item (add "?enable_supply=true" to the end of the create URL to be able to change the supply of your OpenSea NFTs). When I finally finish making all 1000 pandas and making 1000 NFTs of each, that will end up being 1 million panda NFTs! I did this so I could experimen...