Our story

The first steps

What happened is that one day, precisely in one of those computer science lessons he liked so much, the teacher introduced his students to the field of mobile app development. Most of the boys and girls completed the tasks related to that specific part of the subject program as they usually did with the rest of school work. Some forgot about the homework, others did them on time and yet there was a third group of students who, delighted by the possibility to create apps and games themselves for their own mobile devices went a step further and introduced changes to customize and improve their apps with eye-catching features to impress their friends. The protagonist of our story was, of course, part of this third group of enthusiasts. But unlike the others, he kept that hobby of making apps even after finishing that activity in computer science.

In fact, the enthusiasm that this boy developed towards the world of apps was such that very early he started watching videos with a technological theme and when the summer came he was still creating small apps from time to time. One of them simply added up two numbers, another one had a button to change the background screen… and little by little he continued to advance in his limited knowledge to the point that during the summer vacation he marked himself the goal to create a simple tic tac toe game. This might seem an easy task but some of the functionalities such as the option to change the game’s design, a two-player mode, the sound effects or the menu design are elements with a certain degree of complexity that contribute to increase the knowledge of our protagonist when it comes to app development.

Uncertainties and decisions

However, weeks and even months passed until, as a result of efforts and self-discipline, the young boy considered the game finished. So, what’s next, you might be asking? That same question appeared in his head, which would be the next step? He had spent a lot of his time to complete that project, he had continued to work in spite of resuming the school activity and for this reason he didn’t want to simply forget something that had represented a thrilling adventure for him. He wanted more, and therefore he decided to do what he considered to be the next logical step after finishing the development of an Android app, publishing it. At this point, when Christmas arrived, he used the pause regarding academic tasks to double the efforts in his project and perfecting every single improvable aspect.

Finally a day arrived in which, helped by his father, he configured and opened a Google Play developer account in order to be able to share his work through Android’s official app store. The work he had to do in the days that preceded the publication was very stimulating for him: creating a website, filling the Google Play forms, coming up with a promotional text, choosing the best app screenshots and even contacting -without much success- specialized sites to get his app to the public. It was on the 26th of December 2016 that the app was definitively published in Google Play.