The interesting part of this article was that Epic intentionally circumvented Google Play Store and required Android users to download the launcher from its own website.
Hopefully this leads to more app developers skipping Google Play and launching solo. Of course most apps won't have the name recognition of Fortnite, but I can't imagine discover-ability inside of the Play Store is any better.
I got a new phone recently and had to re-download some apps; Imagine my shock when I opened Google Play and saw that it had become like Google search; crawling with ads for some of the worst, lowest-rung "apps", all of which appear to be some variant of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans. Who honestly wants to fork over 30% to Google for that?
The Apple store is just as bad. I tried finding an app that just takes a photo every n seconds until I press stop.
I could find endless pages of apps that claimed to do this - but had 1-star ratings because they couldn't actually do the single thing they were supposed to do.
Ugh. I remain pretty convinced that there's an app like this out there, but discovering it is just plain impossible.
IIRC none of those just place the photos in the iPhone gallery. They only give you the finished video.
I tried looking into making this myself, but it’s an insane rabbit’s hole of Cocoapod compilation problems and general yak shawing. A kingdom for a bash shell and a few good cli tools..
The workflow is a little counterintuitive but not hard. I created a video to illustrate. There are also quite a few settings I didn’t show, such as image quality, frame limit, blackout periods, etc.
Since it’s very late all you get is me pointing it around the entrance to my hotel room, but the images are captured by the configurable timer, not me directly.
Hmm, I’ve been looking for an iOS project idea recently...
Seems like something one could crank out in a weekend. But I’m with you on discovery. Finding something that isn’t going to disappoint me gets harder with time.
I got a new phone recently and had to re-download some apps; Imagine my shock when I opened Google Play and saw that it had become like Google search; crawling with ads for some of the worst, lowest-rung "apps", all of which appear to be some variant of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans. Who honestly wants to fork over 30% to Google for that?