After releasing several notable Android apps including StatusBar+ and ChargeBar, I was contacted in 2012 by PlanGrid to develop the first version of their blueprint reader for Android tablets. At this time, the Android ecosystem was nascent, fragmented, and unstable. I developed several components including GridFragment and a tile rendering engine to display high-fidelity blueprints on resource-constrained devices (similar to TileView).

Android Studio wasn’t officially released until December 2014, so early versions of PlanGrid for Android used Ant, Eclipse, and integrated with Bugsnag for crash detection. PlanGrid for Android Beta (v0.1.1) was publicly released in February 2014