This year HireVue ran a fun little competition. Remember the fun little Valentines boxes from elementary school? The goal was to make the most technologically advanced box possible, and to...
As a developer with a variety of apps in the store my ratings are super important to me. But even more important than the actual ratings of my apps are the perceived...
Our second baby is on the way, and we’ve been working on putting the room together. All this sketching reminds me of 3 years ago when we did the same...
Imagine a rough morning where you wake up early to get to work. Your family is still asleep, and you aren’t able to say a proper goodbye before leaving. There’s...
Through my years of development I have always strived to be an honest developer. I want my users to have a good experience. I want to build fun, new, exciting,...
While redesigning my app Goofy Glass, I came across this interesting finding. Android isn’t left-hand friendly! Now I’m not left-handed, so this has never been a problem for me. But,...
For years I have wanted to sync my Christmas lights to music. Each year comes and goes without even a single blinking light on my house. But no more… this year I...
Earlier this year I gave a presentation titled Battling the Media Framework. I’ve had a lot of bitter-sweet experience dealing with Android’s media framework. I’ve had experience with camera & OpenGL...
I recently gave a presentation regarding Android TV for the Google Developers Group in Utah. All in all I am very impressed with Android TV. Google has learned a lot of lessons as they’ve...
A couple years ago I released one of my favorite apps, Goofy Glass. Since that initial release I have pushed out many updates. Along the way I have come across...
Both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store were built on the backs of independent developers. The platform was wonderful! People could easily find exactly the apps they were looking...
For the past 5 weeks I’ve had an amazing opportunity to be a part of the NEXT program in Provo. It has been an amazing experience, and I am very grateful...
I just recently launched the perfect game for kids and toddlers. It is a hidden objects game like Where’s Waldo or Eye Spy. It is a 100% free for a...
As part of #ChildrensBookDay I thought I’d write about one of my favorite books growing up. This book is none other than Where the Wild Things Are. But to be completely honest,...
After lots of work I am proud to finally announce that my Kickstarter has gone live. I’ve been super impressed and grateful by the amount of support I’ve received so far....
Happy Colorblind Awareness Day! (Or as the rest of the world likes to call it St. Patrick’s Day) Twenty plus years ago I woke up on St. Patrick’s Day. Excited...
As we get closer to Colorblind Awareness day (also known as St. Patrick’s Day), I wanted to share a variety of my colorblind experiences. I hope you find them funny....
Yesterday, as I walked down the street I looked at my son Logan and thought to myself: “Wow, he has such bright green hair, it really shows up well in...
My work recently awarded me a t-shirt, it is a little tradition at HireVue that when somebody does has a great achievement they are recognized with a customized shirt. Mine...
I recently read this article that states that iOS apps are riskier than Android apps. I make a point of not trusting news articles… I’m an Android developer, so I like...
A week ago I attended my first Startup Weekend in Provo. The experience was good overall, but for none of the reasons I expected. And in the end I had...
I took a short stroll down memory lane today as I was browsing some of my old Image Processing work. There was a lot of really cool things I worked...
Note: The Kickstart for this has begun, you can find the site here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1223734313/goodnight-lad-childrens-book-and-interactive-3d-ap I just received the final version of the animations I’ve been waiting on. They turned out...
GoofyBooth passed 1 Million downloads today! It is one of the apps I am most proud of, and super excited that it passed 1 Million in under a year and...
[caption id=”attachment_142” align=”aligncenter” width=”300”] Drewski Mac via photopin cc[/caption] I wanted to share another active project of mine that I’ve given the nickname ‘Rev’. The idea is to merge the...
The first prints of my book arrived today! They turned out great. The quality is actually higher than I expected and the illustrations look fantastic in print. There are a...
As a kid I loved Where’s Waldo. It was the perfect game that never got old. Each page was jam packed with tons of items, and it took hours to...
Three years ago I started my foray into Android development. I had followed and played with Android off and on for a while before that, but that is when I...
I’m always looking for fun ways to learn. Over the past decade many new methods for learning have been discovered. Not only is information more quickly available, but there are...
ListView is one of the most useful Android layout classes, but customizing it can be tricky. Part of that is simply glossing over some of the nice features that are...
One of the less published features of Android KitKat 4.4 was the addition of a new animation framework for Scene Transitions. This is a really nifty framework for developers, because...