About

Hello,

my name is Johannes, I was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1987 and am living in Munich now.

In early 2008, when I was studying Information Science and Management at the University of applied Sciences in Munich, some fellow students and I participated in an .Net workshop. Comming from an Java background, it was easy for us to write software in C# and so we decided to take the more advanced DevCamp. After the camp, the lead speaker asked us to participate in the upcomming Microsoft Imagine Cup, a competition on software design. We participated with the idea of a system for dynamic ridesharing (DRS) using the .Net compact framework. We won the regional final and became third in the German finals. We won an MP3 player and a Windows Vista Ultimate that never arrived (wow!).

Besides that, another developer from Munich, Florian Detig, contacted us. He was (and is) passionate about mobility and implemented an DRS app for Android. I didn’t know much about Android at that time because no cellphones and only the first buggy SDKs were available yet (it was mid 2008). Still, his enthusiasm, he was an Android developer from day one on, brought us to our first Android app.

Since January 17th 2009, Fahrplan, the first German timetable app for Android was available to the Android Market which was released to Germany on the same day. One of my team colleges started the blog andforge.net shortly after that and so I began to blog. We were not sure about the DRS-topic and made some businessplans, researches and tests. I made my bachelor thesis implementing that app in a more professional way for Android using an App Engine backend. At that time, we also decided that DRS would not be able to support us financially in the short and middle term,  but Android could.

Because of that, we decided to launch our own company that provides great Android apps to anyone. ANDLABS was born. Since then we are learned lots of great things, meet phantastic people and worked with the best users out there.

 

The other part of my life, when not sitting in front of a computer, is filled with my great family, my fantastic girlfriend and the martial art Aikido which I practice for many years. Currently I hold the rank of shodan which fills me with great thankfullness. It reminds me of the great teachers I have and had, the phantastic and never ending way and the luck of having found Aikido at the age of only 17.

My Shodan Certificate

My Shodan Certificate

Aikido provides me with the flexibility, openness and calmness needed for daily business and has influenced my personality more than most other things.

 

I hope I can provide you with some valuable information on Android development and app monetization here.

Please contact me whenever you want. If you feel like to suggest a topic for this blog, please do so.