Android apps, start to finish
Idea, architecture, UI, release, maintenance. One person, no handovers, nothing lost in translation. Apps that please the eye, excite the mind and help the user. In that order on a good day.
Still one man.
Still a studio.
Sixteen years on Android, twenty-odd clients, one lightbulb. Inside: a self-interview nobody asked for, twenty features and a Lab for the things built at 1 a.m.
inside
- The editor answers his own questions
- What this studio does, in four columns
- Contents: twenty apps, 2011 to 2026
- The Lab: three side projects, all free
- Contact: hire me, or just say hi
Price: free · Code: written by AI · Taste: tragically, all mine
A self-interview, conducted under duress.
Are you the best Android developer in Stockholm?
Statistically unlikely. Emotionally, yes.
Why "One Man Studio"?
Because every decision gets made by the person who has to live with it. No committees, no handovers, no telephone game between the designer, the developer and the person answering your emails. They are all me, and I am reasonably easy to reach.
How long have you been doing this?
Since Android 2.1 in 2010, when the back button was a physical object and "material" was something you bought at IKEA. Sixteen years. I have outlived four Android design languages and five versions of this website.
What do you actually do?
Android apps, from idea to Play Store and through the boring years after. iOS to Android ports that feel native instead of translated. Kickstarts for projects that need to begin this month, not next quarter. And I am a decent extra adult in a team that already has one.
What are you like to work with?
Three words: creative, positive, modest. Two out of three, consistently. I plan realistically, communicate transparently and write code the next person can read without a séance.
What is the Lab?
Where ideas go to become side projects instead of invoices. Three of them are alive, free and on the back pages.
- 16years on Android
- 22+clients who paid
- 30+projects shipped
- 06versions of this site
What this studio does, in four columns.
iOS to Android, properly
My specialty. Fast, efficient and faithful to Android's guidelines, so the result feels native rather than translated. This mostly means explaining why the back button exists.
Zero to app store
Need Android development to start this month? I set up the project, the architecture and the pipeline, then either hand it over or keep going. Your call, your codebase.
Teams, deadlines, humans
Design patterns, clean architecture, coding conventions, documentation people actually read. Realistic planning and transparent communication, even under tight deadlines. Especially then.
Just some casual namedropping of clients
- Spotify
- Lamborghini
- Telia
- SEB
- Storytel
- EasyPark
- Systembolaget
- MAG Interactive
- Ericsson
- SF Anytime
- ICA
- McDonald's
- Accedo
- Mobiento
- Viaplay
Twenty features, 2011 to 2026.
EasyPark
EasyPark runs parking in more than 20 countries for millions of drivers. I was responsible for the money aspects of things, making sure that all your payments methods were nicely integrated. Money money bling bling.
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Telia
Telia's app is how a very large number of people in the Nordics binge watch their series and consume endless movies. I joined as an Android consultant in a large codebase with many squads and a proper release train, the kind of place where clean architecture stops being a talking point and becomes survival.
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Lamborghini Unica
Lamborghini Unica is the official app for owners and fans: exclusive content, events and a direct line to Sant'Agata Bolognese. I worked on the Android app through Mobiento, where every pixel was reviewed by people who care about pixels the way Lamborghini cares about style and bravado.
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Spotify
Six months as a consultant on Spotify Connect, the feature that hands playback from your phone to a speaker, a TV or a desktop without anyone noticing the handover. I also worked on the tablet experience: new features, user tests and workshops, and the discovery that people hold tablets in ways no designer expects.
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APPICS
A social network on the blockchain, ported from iOS. Yes, blockchain, I know. It was 2022.
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Starmony
Make real music on your phone. Ported from iOS without missing a beat. Sorry, not sorry.
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Happy Timers
Happy Timers is an easy and fun way to create reminders for upcoming events in your life, while enjoying useful, handpicked tips related to that event.
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SF Anytime
Rent and stream the latest films. Ported with Nordic calm and a great deal of DRM and subtitles at all the languages.
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Lånekoll
All your loans in one view, with advice on paying less and saving more. The bank was not consulted.
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Foodtrackr
Find food trucks. Help food trucks find you. Look, salivate, order, pay. Everybody wins, especially lunch breaks.
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Nuvu
Video streaming for Nigeria, where bandwidth is a rumor. I fought for every kilobyte that I wanted to put in that release.
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SEB
One of Sweden's biggest banks. Transfers, invoices and bureaucracy. Fun times with nice benefits.
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Storytel
Audiobooks for the world.
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Systembolaget
The Swedish state alcohol monopoly, in your pocket. Responsibly, of course. And a bit too expensive perhaps.
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Streetkäk
Sweden's and Norway's food trucks, found and ordered from. Lunch has never been so well-architected.
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Bikini Fit
A fitness app ported from iOS. Simple, beautiful, with a purpose. Unlike most of my gym visits.
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Quizcross
Tic-tac-toe meets trivia. My first game at MAG and my first taste of a global audience. Now, THAT was exciting!
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Ruzzle
A word game with millions of Android users. I learned what scale means, why KPIs matter and what a crash report in the middle of the night feels like.
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Viaplay
Video streaming on Android in 2012, back when that was a brave thing to attempt. At a tablet. Oh the things I have seen.
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Rammstein Unofficial App
The app that started it all. Designed, built and maintained by me since 2011. You never forget your first one.
Open the project →Nothing in this section. Which is suspicious, because there is always something.
Side projects, built after hours. All free.
Things I made for myself at hours I do not recommend. Use them, they are free.
Web tool · Free
JSON Purrser
WANTED: broken JSON. A viewer, editor and validator that fixes bad input, diffs documents and generates TypeScript, Python, Go and SQL. Named by a cat person. No cats harmed.
Open jsonpurrser.com ↗ Money · FreePoofly
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? Expense tracking for Swedish banks that never uploads your data anywhere. CSV, Excel and PDF in, uncomfortable truths out. Works with Swedbank, SEB, Nordea and Handelsbanken.
Open poofly.se ↗ Games · FreeSoFa Games
FOR SALE: nothing. Free browser games with no downloads, no ads, no accounts. Arcade classics and small indie games, playable the second you arrive. Sofa not included.
Open sofagameshub.com ↗ Your idea · Not free, but fairThis space for rent
Have something that should exist on Android and does not yet? The Lab has room. Bring the idea, I bring the coffee and the architecture.
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Contact
Get in touch.
Need an Android developer, a second opinion or a rescue? Write here and the message lands straight in my inbox. I answer most things, usually within a day.
- [email protected]
- in/sotirisfalieris
- GitHub
- OneManStudioDotSe
- Based in
- Stockholm, Sweden. Remote-friendly, fika-compatible.