I’ve been putting off this post for a while. Not for any reason in particular, I just like to have things arranged in a certain way before I push them out to people.

This is analogous to the mobile app project this post refers to as a whole. In 2013, with the idea of a friend, I created a mobile application that allows a user to send a random insulting text to someone on their contacts list. It was for fun of course, and we called it BitchyTexts. It was (and still is) Android-only, and was developed over the course of a few weeks on the little time I had between classes. I distributed it to my friends, who distributed it to their friends, and the results were mostly positive. It was crude, and thrown together, but it worked and did its job well.

The next logical step of course was a Play Store release. However, I needed to clean my code up, get things under version control. and brave the submission process. I worked a little here and there, but ultimately getting the app out the door fell to the bottom of my priority list. In late 2015, two years after I decided I wanted to do a Play Store release, I picked development back up again and started knocking out little pieces here and there to reach my desired outcome.

This became one of my 2016 goals, and I was chomping at the bit to release something. There was no use sitting on it, store releases are an iterative process and I could always improve here and there after the application was live.

So, I submitted it. It was approved, and it’s out there for anyone to download and use. There are changes I want to make, and there are other things I want to work on for it (An improved website, back-end services, etc.) but those can come at any time. There is a lot of planning to do, but nothing too crazy.

Check it out here, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bt.bitchytexts.

Let me know what you think!