How I Built Apps With Over 2 Million Downloads — Part 1 (Choosing An Idea)
12 min readDec 5, 2019
Hi everyone, my name’s Alex, and I have been writing Android apps and publishing them under my very aptly named RandomAppsInc Google Play handle since 2013. I have been working full-time as a software engineer since I graduated from college, so all of my apps were hacked together in my spare time as side projects. Despite that, they have accumulated over 2 million downloads and 20 thousand ratings, the vast majority of which are 5 stars.