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I'm learning Kotlin/Jetpack Compose while I try and find a job and wanted to make a small app with just a few features as a soft goal/practice project. Just something that I could finish in hopes to keep me going.

Premise of the app:

I hate going out to eat and trying to explain what I can and can't eat. It's harder at restaurants where the server doesn't natively speak the same language as you. The idea is that you have a select list of common phrases(no meat, no dairy, no fish, etc) that you can translate into another language from a pre-defined list. I tried to cover most common that I could think of from what I might come across in the States. You can then show the list to the server to help pick vegan-friendly options. I do have gluten on there but that is just for the occasional overlap.

A few small bugs that I am aware of:

• The UI doesn't scale well with Display Size settings in the phone's settings app. Large on up squishes the on screen buttons.
• when hitting save, it goes back to Home but the navbar button for Languages stays highlighted. I think I just wrote that part incorrectly /shrug. It still functions though.

The app is free, I don't think it says on the Play Store that it's FOSS but I have the source codes on github.

You can get it from Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidhell.imveganbtw

And the github repo is here: https://github.com/AndroidHell/ImVeganBTW/tree/master/app/release

*this is the link to the .apk but it's still the repo. You can sideload it if you don't care for Play Store bullshit.

I just realized that I made my last post 3 weeks ago. In any case, I staggered my learning with building a simple starter app and just finished my last bit of logic this am. Figured I would share in hopes of some sort dopamine activity via validation.

The App:

• Has 2 sets of strings that are common phrases that people might use while navigating eating out at restaurants where language barriers might be an issue.
• First set in bold are translated in the app via the Language tab
• Second smaller set are translated based on the phone's locale settings.

The idea is that the phone owner should be able to read the text as well, so I wanted 2 sets for when one party speaks one language and the other party speaks another. I mostly wanted to have the challenge of handling translations from within and outside the app and figured why not.

The phrases can be toggled with the green buttons on the bottom. This is to fine tune the dietary preferences. Vegan will toggle everything but gluten as "cannot consume" or will set it for relative vegetarian(so no meat or fish but yes dairy and eggs)

I put gluten in there for anyone who has Celiac. I have found a frightening number of waitstaff that just assume that both veganism and gluten allergy is just "fad diets" so I wanted to include both for the little bit of crossover between the 2 lifestyle diets.

Screenshot with French for phone language and Spanish for in app language:

github: https://github.com/AndroidHell/ImVeganBTW

Notes:

• The app title translate based on phone language but it should be based on in-app language since it's meant more for the person taking a food order to know "I'm Vegan. I might have it change based on vegan or vegetarian for the in-app language but I suppose that is handled by the first card. 🤔
• The nav buttons are not translated and localizing those would be good
• if text in the cards is too long, it gets cut off with ... at the end. This is a similar issue to the Jerboa app nav buttons for some languages. I might make the strings shorter(lazy route) or try to write some sort of scroll/ticker or make each card expand with full text.
• The source code is a fucking mess. I already know. I started working on viewModel stuff before actually learning about it or app architecture.
• Translations were done by Google Translate so if they are wrong maybe let me know and I can fix them. I only speak English so had to rely on Google on this.
• I tried to pick main languages that I could come across in the States. I think they should work in other parts of the world but I used Mexican Spanish and Simplified Chinese so I donno how that might work out elsewhere.

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Or does anyone wanna buddy up and learn it with me?

I lost my job as a Java dev after a little less than 2 years and figured is play around with Kotlin for Android development.

Working on setting up unemployment and startinf the whole job hunt thing again for the umpteenth time in my life but will have a lot of free time in the interim so I wanna start working on an app idea for calculating dice weight for ttrpgs. I've been looking at Kotlin over the last few months and decided sure why not.

The plan is to get the fundamentals down and make 1 or 2 small projects and see where I am at. After that I'm considering chekcing out Rust as well. But that won't probably be until next year.

Kotlin doesn't have nearly as much of a community as Rust so this is probably a shit in the dark. But I guess but me up if you are interested. I've never done a buddy system with a language but with my attention issues it might help?

I haven't looked much into him yet but he checks a lot of good boxes.

Is he someone that leftists could back?

Is there any dirt that people have dug up that I'm not aware of?

If we wanted to champion him, could the leftist orgs unify and help him?

Do I sound like a dirty reformist(God pls no)????

Thoughts? Opinions?