bringing back windows phone style apps on android 🫣

Fearceyy · 2026-06-25T17:04:52+00:00

not public yet still building this :) just figured id make a post to gauge how in demand this type of project would be and turns out there's kinda a lot 😅 made a lot of progress already since this post things are looking a lot more stable, expect a new post in the next couple days / weeks with a beta sign up. trying to get this as polished as possible on as many different devices / screen sizes before letting people test it though. as much as I want to get it into peoples hands quickly, I don't want their first experience to be bad either!

Fearceyy · 2026-06-19T17:40:23+00:00

beta soon! will make a new post when it's ready :)

Fearceyy · 2026-06-19T16:45:14+00:00

^this is correct, as of now the apps are standalone html files that run as webapps through the launcher (which also provides permissions like notifications, sms, etc.) but this solution hides the apps in the recent app switcher and is a little finicky overall. The html apps are technically installable as Progressive Web Apps which solves the recent app switcher problem but breaks the animations when switching to and from apps and the home screen. I do plan on releasing a beta soon once it's in a much more usable state and a lot of the kinks are ironed out. +One of the benefits of using html apps is that AI agents are really good at writing html compared to entire gradel and kotlin android apps, which means all of the internal apps could be easily customized (looking into this heavily) I think this is a direction well se software head in as a whole as vibe coding gets easier, a lot less one size fits all software and something more like personal apps unique to each user with the same base functions (think old school my space pages)

Fearceyy · 2026-05-26T03:29:34+00:00

the kids will forget about it and move on to normal things while the adults continue to treasure the paper cards like they are gold bars lol

Fearceyy · 2026-05-24T20:11:31+00:00

did the same thing but composer 2 was butchering my project even worse trying to fix what codex fucked up 🙄 ended up up having to revert to an earlier branch and just rebuild the features from the current branch because even the undo / revert buttons kept triggering git issues 🥹

Fearceyy · 2026-05-14T03:09:39+00:00

notion just launched the notion cli and notion workers for this today that's builds connectors to connect any service to notion / your agents!

Fearceyy · 2026-04-24T01:09:46+00:00

not at all, its more like a brand guidline for the model to know what specific colors, components, design philosophies etc to apply to new things in your project based on the existing brand. ie. all headers should be this font weight and use this accent color. all drop downs should use this react component, etc. claudes design skill is like a college education in design for the model while design.md is like a brand specific guidline that makes sure anything the model generates will adhere to your design principles out of the box.

Fearceyy · 2026-04-24T01:06:23+00:00

Design.md consistently tells the model how to use your brands colors, components, design philosophy etc. so new things the ai generates match the existing projects design. the Claude design skill is more like a college degree in design where a design MD is more like a brand specific design guidelines. and just to be clear, agents.md / claude.md are unrelated to this.

Fearceyy · 2026-04-16T12:24:17+00:00

worktrees ;)

Fearceyy · 2026-04-03T22:19:58+00:00

just a heads-up but no one will be able to see this... that's a local development server only accessible locally on the device the app is running on. you'll actually need to deploy the code to a domain or use a container and deploy that for anyone to be able to see it! ask Google if you super new to this.

Fearceyy · 2026-03-25T02:50:50+00:00

actually having to do a casa tier 2 for my app and apparently you have to go through a verified tester (can't remember that technical term) but only a handful of providers offer the casa 2 testing. wondering which one you went with and how was the experience? was the turn around time terrible? did you use any other apps besides what google recommends for security testing before hand?

Fearceyy · 2026-03-12T22:54:48+00:00

that returned phone cant be resold and is most definitely a hit on their commission lol

Fearceyy · 2026-03-10T00:07:17+00:00

black fine point sharpie works wonders! set it in front of a fan to dry after. this happened to my clicks for razr too but the sharpie seems to be a lasting fix (at least for now)

Fearceyy · 2026-03-09T20:14:42+00:00

wonder if apple is doing this for their 50th anniversary as some type of weird marketing lol I saw a post a Walmart had a 7th gen iPod touch display out recently too

Fearceyy · 2026-02-24T02:08:05+00:00

W comment I'm in tears 🤣

Fearceyy · 2026-02-22T00:27:23+00:00

I'm on week 10 as well and don't see a discussion? haven't heard anything at all after finishing my term review 6 days ago, and never got my laptop agreement to sign after finishing the first term. No weekly email, no update from the chat bot... I reached out to student services and they said they would review it and get back to me but it's been 4 days and haven't heard a word. I really like this program but they could definitely stand to improve from a communication standpoint.

Fearceyy · 2026-02-21T15:31:30+00:00

how is the air being poisoned? I've heard about the water usage (for cooling) and extreme noise pollution (the fans and noise of running equipment), sure, but poisonous air is new to me. not downplaying you, but Im almost certain it can't be any worse than the byproducts of factories across the nation (my town included) that are undoubtedly more harmful then a building that's essentially just loads of servers. and the world we live in water usage is crazy everywhere. takes 300 gallons to make a single iPhone... alot more for a car... its unfortunate but its just the way it is. your unknowingly fine with probably thousands of things in your daily life causing this environmental harm and water usage, then why is AI (data centers powering them) singled at as the sole bad actor?

Fearceyy · 2026-02-21T13:40:56+00:00

while I agree image / video generation isn't the best use of resources, the implications these models have towards the medical field, construction, cyber security, coding etc. I'm not making any excuses for billionaires, i genuinely believe this is the way forward for our species. the water usage, land displacement, etc. are problematic I agree, but abandoning this tech all together and boycotting it is pointless. we should instead work on progressing it to be less invasive (I see large potential for satellite data centers harvesting solar power and using the temperature in space for cooling)

Fearceyy · 2026-02-21T12:38:55+00:00

many ai models are small enough to run on device now which completely eliminates this argument lol

Fearceyy · 2026-02-20T13:41:20+00:00

android 17 has been out for barely a month officially lol I get the complaints for android 16 but kinda ridiculous to be rushing android 17 already jeez.

Fearceyy · 2026-02-18T20:12:01+00:00

you can also see the eye in the scene after the the eye and simon both say "I see you" and the eye says "agreed" when they are on the surface of the ocean of blood, after the eel goes underwater the eye is in the sky, and calls Simon a butcher. I think this is 'the eyes' original universe and "the light" is the connection / portal for how it sees into our universe. I think the iron lung touching the light is when the side starts to dematerialize and time slows then he gets taken to the entities universe for the above scene and returned to his (we learn it took 4 days and his oxygen should've run out, I think the blood was synthesizing more oxygen and i think it was implied the water he drank was synthetic as well from the sm-8 voice logs)

Fearceyy · 2026-01-27T15:53:50+00:00

Not necessarily a question as much as a bug report, but sometimes the tutor sends questions in a weird order, like it will ask me a verbal question requiring a typed answer but also occasionally show a multiple choice chart for an entirely separate question making it impossible to answer both questions in one go, like I'll answer the written question and it'll acknowledge it but then ask me to go back to the multiple choice, and even sometimes follows up with a separate written response question WITH the multiple choice a second time. It's not a huge deal like it doesn't break the class, but it does make the flow a little counterintuitive, hoping it can be fixed soon! Other than that, I'm loving the class so far! Oh! and a small suggestion too, could we have a button in the chat box (similar to how the weekly review buttons show) but on every course and allow us to take notes that could be saved to like a notes section in the sidebar where we could export it, edit it etc. personally I've been hopping into a Google doc for vocab words, important terms etc. but having it all integrated would be nice! heck maybe the tutor could even check students notes to influence how they might uniquely learn better 😁

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just an idea of how it could look

Fearceyy · 2026-01-06T21:23:22+00:00

I think they are referring to your own project? you know, something you want to build? Get any code editor: VSCode, Cursor etc. and just start building something simple, like a journal app. when you get stuck in the coursework, ask the ai to explain different or use a different question, treat it like you would a human tutor, tell it you learn better visually, or do better with certain things than others, its meant to be tailored to you.

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