In my digital household I use Mealie as a recipe book, meal planner and digital shopping list. To check the groceries off the list during the shopping round, I use the Android app Mealient. A nice small open source project.
The developers behind Mealie are busy and they released a new version. As a good nerd, I quickly want to use the latest version. Quickly read the changelog and hop. Update Mealie from 1.12.0 to 2.0.0. Looked at whether the Mealient app starts and through.
But a little later it turned out that a few parts of the Mealient app, namely the shopping list for me or so, no longer worked. Hmm, that was annoying. Just looked at Github and were more Mealient users who had noticed this. There was also GITHUB activity and a solution direction for the problem. Just adjust a few API endpoints, put a new version of the app in the Play Store and Kees is ready.
Were it not for the owner of the Github Repository suddenly archived the code of the Mealient App and does not intend to release a new version of the Mealient App. The open source project is dead!
And now? I want a working Mealient app again. So it just put it in your own hands. How difficult can it be to fix the app based on existing code? So put on the stout shoes and downloaded the Mealient code, installed Android Studio and delve into an Andoid app using Gradle Building and installing on a remote Android phone.
After some trail-and-error and especially a lot of waiting, I had a full working Mealient app on my phone. Long live open source.