2024 Retrospective

Thailand

The first half year, I was working in Thailand. Recently, there is a trend that the developers are moving to Thailand to work individually. Thailand is a nice place to work, you can live in a nice condo with a swimming pool and a gym for a rent that only afford a small room in Beijing or Shanghai. But I still have to work very hard to find the ballance between work and life.

Mobile develop

This year, especially the first half, I was working on mobile development. Different to the usual. I checked not only react native, but also android kotlin and iOS swift. Majorly because I was planning to become an iOS developer, but I failed on applying one. I think I will try again in 2025. I will buy a mac mini this year, but I still wait the result of the Apple Intelligence.

Wearable develop

At the same time, I developed some apps on Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch. This year, I bought the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, because I can buy a global version in Thailand. I quite enjoy the Galaxy Watch, especially in the end of this year, this watch finally support the double tap gesture. But I didn’t find the develop document.

VR/XR develop

This is the major work of my year. I tried MRTK, microsoft just stopped supporting it. I am not sure if they are regretting that… The second half of the year, I tried to develop a Vision pro application.

Tried some VR frameworks, like Unity, Godot, Wonderland Engine and babylon.js.

Estonia

The last 4 months, I was studying games in Estonia. I will study in Estonia until 2026.

What I finished in 2023 expectation

What I expect $