I know I am late to the Minecraft scene. I am a bit old to have been part of the original craze, but I now have a son who loves the game. Now that I have played it with him, I can see the appeal.
I am an open source developer and the creator of UserLAnd, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula, so when I get excited about something, I am always thinking about how I can get involved and contribute to the community. I read an article on how to run a Minecraft Server on your phone, https://www.xda-developers.com/run-minecraft-server-android/ , but I figured I could do better by not making people go through as many steps. So, that is a goal... make this simple.
This is the first public release and there are many things that can be improved. You can see some of the issues I am going to be fixing soon in the GitHub issues.
Anyway, please check it out and tell me what you think.
For the past few months, I've been really busy with my non-work-related Project called Latest News. What started as a newsapi.org feeds-only application, quickly turned into another direction as some people suggested wanting custom feeds. So after several commits, this is now a future-(almost)-complete RSS application.
It offers - adding/reading feeds (pre-defined or custom added using direct url to webpage, where it scan for xml links or xml link directly) - fetching a complete news content from an article site, removing everything else but text and images - bookmarking articles, - but wait, that's not all! :) - it allows you to log-in (if you wish of course) and synchronize the content with the firebase db. - ...and lastly, it offers toggling sources as favorite and semi-automatically, grabbing the content for them for offline reading.
The project page can be found as a thread here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-news-t3636706
The Google Play link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.sfen.latestnews.
I heard from my friends in mobile that mobile developers like macrumors.com and xda-developers.com, but are there other similar online and offline (like meetup or user groups) that are popular in the U.S.? Seems like there are so many, wanted to weed out the good ones to participate in.
The title should be "FairEmail developer "rage quits" because of unappreciative cheapskate Android users" but I have to reconsider for falling foul of HN moderators, and even then I don't think this will last.
Many HN users interested in FairEmail would have seen these threads by now
They all dwell at some length on Google's tortuous, Byzantine, capricious, whimsical, Kakfaesque, Heath Robinsonian (running out of adjectives here - will come up with few more) (dis-)approval process, but Google is Google and will never stop being Google anymore than Apple will stop being Apple.
I think we need to face some facts here. With over 5 million+ downloads there are not enough people upgrading to the paid version or donating to him to make it worth his while. Saying that Google is the only culprit here isn't entirely quite true, but this act on their part may be the straw that broke the camel's back.
We have to acknowledge that a lot of users take free software developers for granted as a lot of software developers acknowledge. Even Google and a lot of major tech companies are guilty of this, taking advantage of a lot of software developed for free by part-timers and enthusiast without giving anything in return. OpenSSL anyone?
This discussion should turn into one about how free software developers can be compensated for the time and effort into their product, even if they are not in it for the money.
I am a user of FairEmail and I haven't paid for it or donated to the developer and had I known that something like this was in the offing I may have donated to it or paid for the upgrade earlier. I could argue that the interface wasn't exactly to my liking and was looking to see some changes but that doesn't cut it. I benefit from it and the price of the upgrade is about the same of my mobile phone subscription which I don't use much and even less than the price of takeaway meal at my local greasejoints.
Let us talk more about how we compensate developers for their efforts which we benefit from. I have some ideas about this, especially in relation to software that is automatically downloaded assuming they haven't been mooted by others before, but going into that will make this post too long. That will be another post, hopefully sooner rather than later.
XDA-Developers: Kernel Assisted Superuser (KernelSU) – The Final Frontier for SafetyNet and an Essential Developer Tool. https://www.xda-developers.com/kernel-assisted-superuser-kernelsu/
I know I am late to the Minecraft scene. I am a bit old to have been part of the original craze, but I now have a son who loves the game. Now that I have played it with him, I can see the appeal.
I am an open source developer and the creator of UserLAnd, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula, so when I get excited about something, I am always thinking about how I can get involved and contribute to the community. I read an article on how to run a Minecraft Server on your phone, https://www.xda-developers.com/run-minecraft-server-android/ , but I figured I could do better by not making people go through as many steps. So, that is a goal... make this simple.
This is the first public release and there are many things that can be improved. You can see some of the issues I am going to be fixing soon in the GitHub issues.
Anyway, please check it out and tell me what you think.
Thanks!
Corbin