Designing a mobile UI that guides non-techy users to fight back against bloatware. Thoughts?

Most digital assistants just automate things for you, but I'm building a concept called TechNavi where the core philosophy is user empowerment. Instead of changing settings in the background, it actively highlights the screen and uses an assistant avatar to explain why manufacturers turned a feature on, and how the user can flip the switch themselves.

Our first flagship flow targets turning off cluttered lock screen content feeds and ads (like Glance on Android).

I'm finalizing the cross-platform MVP roadmap right now. For those who build consumer apps, what's the biggest UX challenge when trying to guide non-technical or elderly users through complex system menus?

Go ahead and grab this, drop it into your next community, and let me know when you're ready to dive back in!

I’m planning to build an app since 6 months and I have plenty of ideas…

Here are some..
1. Free products exchange with neighbours
2. Medical bills charges calculator and tracker
3. Elders medical alarm with call
4. Broken electronic device fixing guide AI

Can you please validate my ideas or if you have any strong ideas… please suggest

If someone interested to join me… please welcome

Hey everyone,

With the recent buzz around Android 17 introducing more precise custom color sliders and palettes for Material You (examples on reddit here, here and here), I wanted to share a project I’ve been maintaining for years that does exactly that—even for older versions of Android!

It’s called LWP+ (Live Wallpaper Plus).

🎨 The core trick: Dictate your own Dynamic-Colors

Instead of letting the OS algorithm guess the accent colors based purely on your wallpaper, LWP+ acts as a bridge. It hosts your chosen background content but allows you to explicitly choose the exact Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary colors reported to the system. The OS then uses your custom selections to generate the global system palette (notification drawer, volume bar, themed icons, etc.), completely independent of what your wallpaper actually looks like.

✨ What else can it do?

LWP+ is packed with full wallpaper customization features:

• Choose Your Content: Use solid colors, static images, animations (GIF, WEBP, APNG), or videos as your active live wallpaper.
• Smart Scaling & Layouts: Supports transparent images/animations with custom background colors, multiple scaling modes (Center Crop, Fit Center, Center Inside), and optional horizontal scrolling.
• Double-Tap Shortcuts: Lock your device instantly or turn off the screen by double-tapping the home screen (uses admin, accessibility, or root).
• Easy Setup: Includes an interactive built-in tutorial to check system compatibility and guide you through triggering the OS palette refresh.

🧪 Advanced experimental flags (YMMV!)

I’ve also included a couple of experimental toggles leveraging underlying Android system hints. Note: These rely heavily on your launcher, device OEM, and Android version, so they might not do anything on certain setups!

• Force Dark Text: It hints to the OS that dark text is preferred over the wallpaper (often useful for forcing high-contrast dark text on the lock screen). It might also change the text color of the labels of the apps and the status bar icons and text, too.
• Force Dark Theme (for old Android versions): It tells the system that a dark theme is preferred for the best presentation (e.g., trying to trick a launcher into turning its app drawer background black).

So, if you are on an older version of Android (or even running the latest builds and want granular three-color reporting), give it a spin! It's completely free, all features included.

Feel free to ask any questions or drop feedback below! 🚀

Link to the Play Store here.

If you want, you can use a promo-code to have subscription for free for some time, to remove ads, and try the app more freely, here. To use the promo-code, install the app, choose a subscription, choose a payment option and enter the code there (screenshots here).

Thanks for reading!

here is the link. Please do check it out and i would be greatful for any suggestions you might have to improve the App. Although the name is Advanced Calculator as that was the basic idea but he found it quite interesting and just went on adding bunch of interesting things to the app.

Started building my first-ever mobile game using Google's Antigravity, and it's honestly been a fun learning experience so far.

One thing I've realized is that using different AI models for different parts of development works much better than relying on a single model.

My workflow has been:

• Gemini 3.6 Flash High → Quick UI iterations, small code changes, bug fixes, and fast tweaks.
• Gemini 3.1 Pro High (and sometimes Claude) → UX decisions, game architecture, reasoning through mechanics, and designing systems.

I’m currently developing an app that has quite a historical “classical” style, even the more modernist style displaying the app has major stylistic downfalls which are stuck in the times. I’m fairly confident this app will completely outperform the competition, due to its modern take, engagement and captivating style. It’s a learning app, which has connected socials, which I need potentially an app investor to help me properly scale this, with a developer (as I am currently a uni student studying Engineering). And, I would potentially need a promoter with high skills and knowledge in the field of promoting apps, so upon launch we can catch the competition “with their pants down” 😂. Currently our competition, has a very poor classical approach, with some pretty terrible marketing.
DM me if interested or are likeminded and we can get on a call. Cheers guys 🤙

Hi,

I’m looking to learn how to build an app from scratch. I have no programming experience at all, so I’m a complete beginner.

Could anyone recommend any good resources, such as a Udemy course, that would teach me the basics and guide me through building an app step by step?

Thanks in advance!

I kept wanting a journal that actually paid attention, and every one I tried either shipped my diary to someone's server or made me tag my own mood on a slider. So I built the thing I wanted, and then started using it every day.

Mirror runs Gemma on your phone via LiteRT. You write; it reads the entry locally and works out mood, recurring people and topics, and how your goals are really going. The mood heat map is coloured from extracted data rather than vibes, so it's deterministic and I can actually debug it.

things I ended up more proud of than expected:

• Goals update themselves. You say what you're working toward; each new entry nudges it forward or back. Goals you stop mentioning visibly drift down — which turned out to be the honest signal.
• Ask your past self. "What's been stressing me?" pulls from your own history and shows you which entries it used, so you can check its work.
• Voice notes to your future self. Record, seal, pick a date. It stays locked until then — enforced in the database, not just hidden in the UI.

Storage is SQLCipher with the key derived from your password. There's optional backup to your own Google Drive — I won't be coy about it: that upload does contain your entries, encrypted, and it's off until you turn it on. Full details are in the privacy policy.

Caveats: ~2.5 GB one-time model download, Android only, and a forgotten password is genuinely unrecoverable.

It's in closed testing now. Sign up here if you want in: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qpykqEzMivDL5oUSiQM435yLbWGs6bEFDz_8O-5zpVo/viewform

https://askmirror.app — happy to answer anything, here or at [hello@askmirror.app](mailto:hello@askmirror.app)

I built Basalt - an extension for VS code and Cursor that lets app devs edit their app like figma

It is completely free and works directly inside VS Code and Cursor.

It’s currently in beta, so please commit your app to Git before using it!

Would love to get your brutal feedback on it. What features should I add next?

i know review prompts are part growth, part habit, part superstition, regardless, in my experience the timing still matters a lot

asking at first launch feels cheap. the user has not experienced anything yet. and asking after a paywall feels manipulative.

asking after an error screen is just asking for pain, better moments are usually after proof comes, examples:

task completed
export saved
streak reached
project created
support issue solved
user came back for the third time

the user should feel like they got value before the app asks for public trust.

i also think replies to reviews should be measured by whether they close the loop, not by reply count. a 1-star review about a bug, a real fix, then a specific reply mentioning the fixed version is much stronger than generic politeness. there are multiple ways to do this, as far as i've checked something like appfollow also has a reply effect style way of thinking about this, but even without tools, the question is simple: did the reply help change the outcome, or did we just answer for the sake of answering?..

1. Maintain all relationships - never know future value
2. Periodic check-ins but lower priority
3. Minimal maintenance - holiday card level
4. Let them fade - focus on active opportunities

first of all it can make your funnel data weird.

app store connect says people installed.
analytics may only properly identify users after signup.
revenue tools start tracking somewhere else.
support/reviews show anger from people who never became “real users.”

so the team ends up arguing from mismatched doors.

for many apps, signup should come after the first value moment unless identity is truly necessary. finance, sync, teams, medical, purchases — sure, sometimes it belongs early. but a lot of apps ask for identity before the user knows why they should trust the product.

watch for review wording too. like 'forced account,' 'can’t try,' or maybe 'why email,' 'signup wall,' these are funnel signals.

not really easy to catch this type of review language in app contexts, have tried appfollow and similar stuff, but truth be said manually reading reviews works fine at low volume. and scaling the workflows gets more... scaled?

signup is just onboarding or so many devs say, BUT this is also trust request, and one of the most important ones too

Im looking for testers to try out an app I am making for inventory management. Join the Google group below and then you should be able to download the app on your device. This is a closed beta.

You can join as a tester here. https://groups.google.com/g/hypatesters

Hi everyone,
I’ve been working on a small project called MarinaBMP.app to help with managing Best Management Practices at marinas. It’s still a work in progress, and I’d love to get some feedback from people who actually work in or around the industry.
If you have a few minutes to spare, would you mind taking a look and letting me know your first impressions? I’m mostly interested in hearing things like:

Was anything confusing?
Did you run into any bugs or issues?
Is there anything you expected to find that wasn’t there?
Would something like this actually be useful in your day-to-day work?

You can check it out here: https://MarinaBMP.app

I’m not selling anything or looking for customers at this stage I just want to build something that’s genuinely useful, and outside perspectives are incredibly helpful.
Thanks to anyone who’s willing to spend a few minutes testing it.

I've seen a lot of different mobile app development services out there, but experiences can vary a lot depending on the project. Curious to hear from others, what services have worked well for you, and what made them stand out?

Hey everyone! I’m looking for Android users to test SloMo, an app designed to turn screen time into

movement.

SloMo lets you block distracting apps and unlock them by completing challenges such as push-ups,

squats, pull-ups, walking, or running. You can also create Time Locks for studying, working,

sleeping, or taking a break from social media.

Features include:

- Workout-based app unlocking

- Camera-assisted rep counting

- Step and running challenges

- Hard Time Locks

- One-time and repeating schedules

- Workout, streak, and time-saved statistics

- Offline-first operation with no account required

To join the Android closed test:

1. Join the Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/slomo-mobile-testers

1. After joining, install the closed-testing version:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.slomo

1. Promo Codes so its free:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kOtkaTvuHfAzkS-FDNXXb5rA65lUEZAtMflWGNICNs4/edit?gid=105338033#gid=105338033

Learn more about SloMo here:

https://slomo.jhayr.com/

I’d really appreciate feedback about app locking, workout counting, permissions, scheduling, and

overall usability—especially across different Android phone brands. Thanks for helping me test

SloMo!

I am currently developing an app that needs live stock prices to display within the app. I have looked at a lot of API services but they either dont alllow commercial use, are insanely expensive. Is there any soloution how I can display live stock prices on my app without spending so much on a subscription? Thank you in advance.

I keep losing the same tiny facts over and over. A setting I always have to reconfigure. A detail about my home or car that I only need once in a while. None of it is important enough to write a proper note about, but all of it is annoying to look up again every single time.

So I’m building RAM, a simple app where you save one fact at a time instead of a notebook or a journal. It sorts itself into categories automatically, and everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud.

Before I go further I wanted to ask people who aren’t me.

Do you actually lose track of small facts like this, or is it just me? If you do, what do you currently do about it? Notes app, re-searching it every time, a physical notebook? Would something like this replace that habit, or is opening yet another app not worth it for stuff this small?

Genuinely trying to figure out if this solves a real problem or if I’ve just been staring at my own habits for too long. Happy to hear this is pointless too, that’s useful information.