Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, I want to talk about why I don't do tutorials.
Okay, so today, I want to answer a question that came in a couple of days
ago by Aqib Feroz. He asked, "Hello Eric. Why don't you make tutorials?"
Aqib, I really appreciate the question. Thank you very much.
I do tutorials sometimes but I don't - as a general rule I don't spend a
lot of time doing tutorials because there's not a real shortage of tutorials
out there, right? A lot of times people will ask me can you do a tutorial on on
Android development. Like from the beginning. Like beginners Android. And I
would do a terrible tutorial. I think there are so many really good tutorials
out there and really good developers making tutorials about these kind of
things, that we don't really need another one on YouTube or anywhere. Unless is if
there was something I thought I could add. The tutorials I've done in the past
it's been more like like deploying to Google Play or deploying to iTunes
because that was something that I thought was really lacking in terms of,
like when I had to figure it out, I found it really hard to figure this stuff out.
Because the - all the documentation I could find was out-of-date and it gets
out-of-date so quickly. Every time there's a major Google Play change or
when we talk about stuff like keyword research and things like that, that's
something that's hard to research. Or when you do find resources on how to do
that, a lot of times it might be skewed towards one platform or another. And if I
think there's a shortage, I'll do something on that. But most of the time,
the goal of the channel is not so much to teach, but more that we have a
conversation. So, if you watch the video each day, but you don't read the
comments, you're probably missing out on a lot because there's a lot that goes
into the comments that other people are having the same frustrations or they may
discover something and they'll bring it up there. And it's really interesting.
We all get better as developers. And I've talked about this before how when I
first started. There was like I knew nobody who was doing apps I was the only
person that I knew of. And of course, I was surrounded by people who who
didn't really understand what it was I was trying to do because they weren't in
it. But they wouldn't, you know, they would read certain things or they they would
say, like when people give me advice like "You
should put a button with an ad right over it so that the button moves around
and they have to catch it and keep clicking the ads, right?" I said, "Well,
that's - it's kind of a policy violation. You can't really do that." No. Like, "Okay,
alright." No, think of other things at which were just really sneaky and shady
and like you have to know what it's like to be an app developer. You have to know
this kind of stuff only when you start working with other app developers and
getting a conversations with them that you really start to learn things. And
that's when I joined this mastermind group and meeting other app developers
and it was like a whole new world opened up because they had the same problems
and insecurities and and everything. Just trying to make everything work
on the app market. And that's more what I hope the channel is. But if I thought
there was some way I can help out with tutorials I would. And a lot
of times, it's as a developer we just - we can't - I see, this weekend I got
asked a couple of questions from a couple different people about if I could
solve this problem for him, like a bug that they were having or something they
were having trouble figuring out. And I would say - just - I mean, I had that - I did
that like a few years ago. If you just Google it, you'll find the resources and
but it's like, 'No, can you have a look at it? Because I'm really struggling with
this." And I said, "You know, I really - I can't debug this application for you."
This is - as a developer, there's certain things that you have to go
through. You get better as a developer by teaching yourself and you have these
stumbling blocks and everything like that. And sometimes, the tutorials, they
can't really teach you that kind of stuff and that's something that I
also don't want to get too wrapped up in. So, I hope despite the lack of
tutorials on this channel, it still provides some value to you, guys.
This is what I'm here to do. I definitely get value from the comments you, guys, put
in. So, like I said, if you don't - if you watch the channel every day but you
don't read the comments, you're missing out on a lot because it's the
conversation that we're having as app developers in this app market, that's the
most beneficial part of - hopefully a beneficial part of what we're doing here.
So anyway, that's it for today! I will talk to you, guys, again tomorrow!