Today we continue to get to know our top BlackBerry Developer Support Forum contributors. If you’ve searched for answers to a question in the Native Development board, chances are you’ve see posts from Zmey. Zmey’s name is Andrey Fidrya, and he’s helping us out from Russia. Here is how Andrey describes himself.
I am a software Consultant with fourteen years of experience developing desktop and mobile applications, video streaming software, network device drivers and computer games. I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and now live in Voronezh, Russia. Since 2007, I’ve worked in a small software team called Zabiyaka.
After attending the BlackBerry JAM Conference in Moscow, where the new BB10 platform was introduced, I started coding for it. Having worked with Qt before, I liked how Cascades extended it for use with BlackBerry 10, allowing the creation of fluid and beautiful interfaces. The Community Support Forums were a valuable source of information about the platform and I would like to thank everyone participating in them.
Together with Demid Chugunov, our UX specialist, and Anton Karandeev, a SW Engineer, we developed two applications for Blackberry 10, both are B4B certified:
1) Zabiyaka Unit Converter: a rich collection of unit converters and calculators, where much attention was given to accuracy of the formulas and ease of use.
2) Wireless Barcode Scanner: the app’s primary task is to transfer barcodes to a PC for accounting purposes, but it can also recognize many QR code types such as phones, email addresses or geolocation information, making it a useful tool to have at hand.
Please feel free to follow me on Twitter at @zmeyc.
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