Android App Available

06 March 2011

I finally broke down and wrote an Android app. I have an Android phone myself and my original plan for us Android users was to make an awesome HTML5 app that everyone could use, Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS, whatever (though, probably not Windows Phone 7). However, I just don’t think that HTML5 development is there quite yet. Maybe it’s a lack of any good libraries, or maybe I’m just no good at it, but I could never get the mobile app working quite like a real, native app. There were always refresh problems, I had to run through crazy hoops just to get clicks to happen in under a second, and I couldn’t even anchor an element to a fixed place on the screen! It was a noble goal, but, in the end, I wanted a native app on my phone, and I built one.

This app was actually the easiest to develop (of the Android, iOS and HTML5 apps I’ve so far built for Mealfire), so for just this initial version it has a lot of features; about as many as the web app and more than the iOS version. My goal was to make it so that you could stand in your kitchen, find a recipe to make that night, schedule it, make the list, check off the items that you already have, and head off to the store; all without ever touching your computer. In the coming months, however, I have lots more things I’d like to add, like stores (Google, do I really have to build my own sortable list from scratch?), lots of ways to sort recipes, widgets, etc. If you have an Android phone, please, check it out and let me know what you think!

Android App Available

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