Building a Local-First Kotlin App With GitHub Actions and RevenueCat
I had been wanting to participate in a hackathon for a while. DevPost contacted me via their newsletter, and from there things escalated quickly. Many of the competition tracks required publishing a fully functional app to common app stores. For this reason, I chose to participate in the Next Gen track. Not having to publish to an app store did not mean I would cut corners. I wanted to build an app that would be shippable in a few days if I ever got access to developer accounts.
The Research
I start a lot of my projects with basic probing and some research. Given the time frame of the competition, I was comfortable with learning an entirely new language if I had to.
Before my real work began, I drafted out my idea. One of the most important restrictions I placed on myself was: no custom servers, no custom...
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