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禅文 Zenwen
- 3 Devlogs
- 8 Total hours
An app to help people effectively learn Chinese and other languages. Seamlessly integrates with your day.
🏯 禅文 Zenwen - Devlog 3️⃣
你好! Zenwen is an app to help people ACTUALLY learn languages. As someone with a 970 day Duolingo streak, I know what us learners need.
The first thing I’m making for the app is vocab decks, and I’m almost ready to ship this!
Today was focused on displaying the actual vocab in the decks as well as being able to add new vocab.
Learned a lot about how to handle inputs in Flutter. This morning I realized my button layout wasn’t very convenient for users, so I had to rearrange it, which forced me to learn about InkWell, which will help me learn a lot moving forward.
🏯 禅文 Zenwen - Devlog 2️⃣
你好！ Zenwen is an app I’m making with Flutter to help people ACRUALLY learn languages. As someone with a 970 day Duolingo streak, I know what us language learners need to actually be successful.
Made a lot of progress today!
I developed a basic display of vocab decks, which includes: title, description, practice button, edit button.
Also made a way to create new vocab decks, by clicking the button at the bottom right.
You can’t view or add vocab yet, that’s hopefully coming tomorrow.
The UI is pretty bare bones right now. I’m focused on functionality before I make it look good.
As for bugs I encountered, the entire app crashed when I switched from using a stateless widget to a stateful widget. Quickly discovered this was me being stupid because I forgot to restart the app. Apparently hot reload doesn’t like big changes between stateless and stateful.
🏯 禅文 Zenwen - Devlog 1️⃣
Zenwen is (will be) an app to help people ACTUALLY learn languages like Chinese. As someone with a 960 day Duolingo streak, I know exactly what us language learners need.
My first ship will be a tool for making and studying vocab decks to seamlessly fit in with your day.
Today was a short but productive. The app is basically just a blank screen on the front end, but the systems are falling into place in the code.
Today I developed the system for storing vocab decks.
Now it should be fairly easy to add flashcards and other study tools.
The first hour or so of the day was spent fixing VSCode because lots of things were breaking. It said my phone was connected, but it wouldn’t show up. The Flutter extension also stopped working.
Changed the name from Zhenwen to Zenwen. Zhenwen has religious cultural meanings, so I want to respect that. 真文 means “true text”, which has meanings in Taoism. 禅文 (technically chánwén) essentially means “peaceful language”.
For your entertainment here is a screenshot of a stupid bug that confused me for 30 minutes. 99k pixel overflow.
Can’t wait to see what the next week will bring and watch this app come to life!
