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And your blogpost on Fragment animations in Capitain Train inspired a buch of developers (including me) to go further with animations! 🙌

Good ol' days

1️⃣ Screenshots for each release were auto-generated with themed passengers: Bernadette & Jacques Chirac in French, Bonnie & Clyde in English, or Angela & Gerhard in German.

Each screenshot also hinted at the next release date. With a strict 6-week cycle, release N showed a departure date matching release N+1. A subtle touch we were proud of!

2️⃣ The app has an Easter Egg still visible today! Triple-tap the version number in settings to find it. Inspired by movie credits, it included animations and gestures carefully crafted for fun.

Hiding it was even more fun—I inlined everything (code, text, images) into a single file! Along the way, I learned a fun limitation: string literals in Java can’t exceed 65,535 bytes.

Gandharva

@gandharva.bsky.social

Putting ❣️in screenshots and what’s new were a thing. It’s still done mostly be indie devs. Others- bug fixes and improvements