Projects

PhunWallet acts as a hub for a dual token ecosystem. With PhunCoin and Phun token, bringing a way for people to be rewarded and in control of their personal data. The app and surrounding ecosystem strive to educate the users. Keeping in mind this may be their first entry into cryptocurrency and the sensitivity of personal data.

I have acted as the Mobile Engineering Team Lead and Architect throughout the product.

PhunWallet as it is now, has gone through an evolving brand, pivoting to a dual token system, and the creation of two SDKs. We are now in phase 4.

This application has not been released yet.

My wife and I were fans of the Whole 30 elimination diet. We used it with great success to get ready for our wedding, but found it very difficult to find products in our local grocery store that we could eat while following the very restrictive program.

Together we created an app using the OpenFoodFacts database that leverages computer vision to scan barcodes of grocery store products.

The products ingredients are categorized and if any non compliant ingredients are shown to the user.

Probably my most prized personal project, Calendar Countdown List Widget is a launcher widget that shows a countdown to user selected events from their device/account calendars.

I originally created this back in 2015 and have continued to work on it, with a big rewrite (2.0!) that I worked on while my 4 month old daughter naps.

The widget allows users to pick instance or recurring events manually, or automatically show countdowns to all events (with manual excludes). The widget supports color customization, and transparency.

Originally this was written backed by a content provider and some very overly complicated loader logic inside of a fragment. Version 2.0 has since been rewritten using Android Architecture Components: ViewModel, LiveData, Koin, and coroutines.

As an avid outdoor cyclist (and Strava user!) I found myself frequently looking at my number of rides for the year and keeping track of my all time longest ride (to push myself further!).

The Strava mobile app didn’t make this easy, and it lacked a useful widget to help me keep track of these stats. So using the Strava API I built a simple home screen widget (two sizes).

When Google announced Android Wear at Google I/O in 2014 one of their headline features was the ability to automatically unlock your Android phone if your watch was connected – but guess what? This feature wasn’t going to be available at launch!

As an attendee of this particular Google I/O I was gifted two early Android Wear devices, and quickly created Wear Unlock for Android Weird that delivered on this coveted feature.

Towards the end of this apps life I open sourced a version of its code here

At its height, this app had approximately 4,000 installs and was feature in ComputerWorld magazine.

Up Down Fish was my first foray into writing games for Google’s Chromecast HDMI dongle. I partnered with a friend (Erik Bye) to create a multiplayer clone of the popular mobile game Flappy Bird.

We supported up to 6 players at once, and each player would connect to a Chromecast with their own mobile device. Like the original game itself, the mechanics were very simple: tap to swim higher, and fall lower if you don’t.

Up Down Fish is probably my most popular app, with currently over 50,000 downloads.

Probably one of my first Android apps that was actually worth releasing, it was a “modern” Podcast player in the Holo design that was popular at the time.

I needed something to listen to podcasts on my daily commute that had some features that none of the current apps had all at once:

• Automatically check for and downloads new episodes of your favorite podcasts every night while you are sleeping.
• Lockscreen audio controls. (for supported versions of Android)
• Bluetooth headset integration.
• Works great with no internet connection. (as long as you have downloaded episodes in advance!)