Hi there 👋
As of April 2021, I've been an Android Engineer with over three years of experience working remotely, trying to live and flex my true digital nomad life. 👨🏻💻🏔🌎
✨ What I've Worked On:
💻 Open Source Contributions & Publications:
- Extended Player View Library (Kotlin): Published an easy to customize player view library for Android. See the code on GitHub.
- Jetpack Compose Samples (Kotlin, Compose): Contributor to the leading open-source project to help people learn about Compose, starred by more than 3k developers. Contributions include adding a todo feature to one of the sample apps.
- Cascade Library (Kotlin): Contributor to an open-source library to replace Android’s popup menu, starred by 1.4k developers. Contributions include adding support for grouped menus and fixing an invisible item bug.
📱 Apps
- Text Recognition App (Kotlin, ML Kit, Firebase): A text recognition app to help detect text from images and stores them back as PDF.
Textify - Apps on Google Play
Automate the tedious work of manually typing a printed document, searching your chat screenshots for a particular message, or extracting your favorite quote from the book you just read. Textify helps recognize text from photos and stores them back as PDF, in just a couple of taps!
📚 Books
- Published a book about the one day experience of spending my day with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.
A Day with The Woz
“‘The Woz’ built the first [personal computer]—by hand, himself.”—USA Today<br /><br />A real life one-day experience, read how it felt for an Apple fanboy when he met Stephen Gary “Steve” Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the …
Interested to know more? Let's grab a coffee and talk tech, music, TV shows, or latest adventures.
📮 Contact
- Twitter: @waseefakhtar
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waseef
- GitHub: github.com/waseefakhtar