About the app
Joe's Piano helps piano students learn to read music through flashcards. Each card shows a note with a memory aid, like "Apple on the windowsill" for A, and students answer against a timer to build speed and recall. It includes graded decks starting from a Primer deck, a scales screen with quick navigation, an option that reveals the answer when a student is stuck, and a dark mode.
The challenge
Joe already had the app on iPhone, but a large share of his students use Android and could not get it. He needed a faithful Android version of an app that already existed, rebuilt from his own code so it matched what his students were used to, and then kept working as Android and the Play Store changed.
What we built
Working from Joe's existing code, OgreLogic recreated Joe's Piano as a native Android app, matching the flashcard decks, the practice timer, the scales navigation, the reveal-answer flow, and the look and feel. We ran beta testing and published it to Google Play. Over the next few years we fixed the small things that matter in a teaching tool, including a flashcard answer-validation glitch, a timer that added an extra second, card ordering on the Primer deck, and dark-mode display, and we kept the app compliant with Play Console policy updates.
The result
Joe's piano students on Android got the same flashcard practice tool their classmates had on iPhone, built to match the original and maintained over several years. It is a small, focused education app, done carefully for the people who actually use it: students learning to read music.