From the archive · Dale Spoonemore
Learning to build our first mobile app
Source dated December 12, 2017. Archived: .
An excerpt from the current version of Dale’s 2017 Seed to Spoon article. The source has been edited since then; the original version has not been independently recovered.
However, the thing I’ve felt compelled to do since I first started trying to memorize gardening books was to build the ultimate gardening mobile app. I often felt lost and overwhelmed when I first started growing food. I was always having to pull up the Kindle app on my phone and search through books when I needed to recall information about growing a plant. I also spent a lot of time taking pictures of insects and looking them up to see if they were beneficial or not. What became even more difficult was trying to keep track of which plants I should plant next to each other and which ones to avoid. From the beginning, I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind that I could build a mobile app to solve these problems and many more.
I’ve had a love affair with computers and software since I first got my hands on one as a kid. I’ve worked in the software business since shortly after I graduated from high school; however, I hadn’t done much real coding outside of a few lazily failed attempts to learn. I’d always considered learning to code this mountain that “I’d climb someday when I had time…”.
I started towards learning last year, but didn’t feel like I had the skills to build a mobile app and that I needed someone to partner with me in order to build it. Then I had a lunch with friends from work that changed my thinking. I was complaining to them about not being able to find a partner and they all told me they thought I was ready and that I should jump in and learn. Then a couple of them spent some time afterwards showing me how to get the project set up. That’s basically the moment I went dark from here. All of my time at late nights and early mornings when I couldn’t sleep that used to go towards writing blog posts and editing videos shifted to learning how to build a mobile app and I’ve been peddling as fast as I can towards that goal ever since.
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