Back in October a friend and I were talking about how I was thinking of trapping a Cooper's hawk to fly this season. The IT manager job had caused me enough stress to give away my goshawk in January. Birdless for nine months, I was getting the itch, and being unemployed I could devote all sorts of time to a small accipiter.
Though we're both falconers, we talk about all sorts of things. Knowing I'm a techish person, Niki mentioned she was thinking of making an iPhone version of her book/CD on bird calling. Well and good, I said, but of course she'd have to have an Android version as well! Not everyone on the planet has an iPhone.
And before I knew it, I was offering to write that app. By then I had written a bunch of toy apps, and one slightly serious one where the boyfriend could enter his daily weight and email himself a .csv file of the entries for incorporation into an existing Google Drive spreadsheet (we wanted to integrate the entries directly into the spreadsheet, but apparently that part of the API was still in developmental stages, so we left it at email.) So I had some confidence that I could write something that would work, and she could have it in the Play Store and we'd both make a little money.
And that's been my project since, and I just declared it finished yesterday. It looks a bit like a book, but includes sound files, one internally stored video, a couple links to YouTube videos, and of course 13 of Niki's paintings. A couple friends beta'ed the first round and I just sent them the final version for another round. I started a Play Store account and am getting screenshots together for the product launch. In the meantime, Niki found an e-book publisher for the iPhone version and will promote both apps in her next appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
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