WinterList

WinterList is a to-do list application made for Android devices.

Year: Mar 2020
Software: Sublime Text 3, Expo, KittenTricks

This application was my exploration into Android development.
This uses Expo for the building process, and UI Kitten for styled components.

Expo is a free service which creates built instances of your app to test on your phone as you make updates.
This was useful since it reduced the back-and-forth of having to make changes -> build -> reinstall.
Having said that, it does make the entire thing kind of black-boxy.
But I suppose that's how modern development is.

Above is what Expo looks like.
The re-build didn't work for me, because of local Wi-Fi issues (it's all localhost, it seems).

UI Kitten was the UI components kit this app used.
This was quite fun to use, even if it was all hideous in React.
KittenTricks is the app you may download to check the full demos of components.

The logo is based off an item from Risk of Rain 2, which I still enjoy playing.
The item is the Lepton Daisy.

Overall, it was an ok experience.
After some React projects I still don't understand the need for so much scattering of code, so much dependencies, so much complexity.
It's been years since these functional programming frameworks has been around, and the user experience is still piss poor.
Sure, the excuse could just be "The developers didn't do it right", but what is right when "right" changes so often in that ecosystem?
I'm just very sick of every online portal using so much of these libraries. The loading spinners. The loading bars. The loading placeholders. Buggy states.

Some years have passed and I still use WinterList.
At least feels nice to make something that you find useful.
My todo list service prior to this was Wunderlist, which Microsoft purchased to take down in an attempt to try and force Wunderlist users into using Microsoft's to-do list service.