Yan Chummar

A Fine Day, I was expecting a Gift sent from the UK. It started when I met a wonderful person at an event, His name is Joe Hoyle and he is the CTO and co-founder of Human Made, He lives in the UK. After talking with him at an event, and also talking about my few wishes, he offered to send me his old MacBook Air, which was like a dream for me to get one at this time. And after that event, we were in-contact and he had shipped the item, and after all the customs clearance and all. It finally arrived today. Such a wonderful and valuable gift for me and my career. I'd now be able to develop and work seamlessly with a much better performing device. Thanks a lot to Joe Hoyle!

Today, had an event at Trivandrum, an event organised by Microsoft's Kerala Community. It was a grand scale event and It was indeed a pleasure to be there, As the point I came to know about the event the registration was closed and I had contacted the organiser for the tickets and he provided me as well but also gave me a wonderful opportunity to talk in front of many entrepreneurs and tech people. They gave me a session time for an introduction and Q&A. The opportunity was remarkable as many high profile people were there to attend the event. There were employees from Microsoft and may Microsoft MVPs. It was indeed a pleasure and happy to see so many people supporting me and my works. I was somewhat astonished when people asked could I take a selfie with you, It was really an exciting moment.

February 18 th February 2017, one of the best days, Today was a big day of my life, If I start from the beginning it happened like this, there was an event at CUSAT (Cochin University of Science And Technology) which is one of the elite institutes in Kerala, the event was named Innovate 2017, which was the biggest event of the year with a large number of programs, as a matter of fact one of the organisers of the event came to know about my works and news, and he messaged me with an invite to the event as a guest to present a talk there, and today was the day for that speech, at first I was nervous and scared to speak at such a high level institution and finally I was able to speak very well than what I expected, everyone there was very supportive. The chief guest of the event was C.Balagopal Sir, CEO Terumo Penpol, then Sijo Kuruvilla, CEO & Founder, StartupVillage, then   Dr. J Letha, Vice Chancellor of CUSAT. And before concluding I was gifted a memento for being a special...

February 8 th , 2017, A wonderful day and indeed a great turning point in my life. Today I was featured on Manorama Online, the top Malayalam news website and newspaper. In the last few days, a reporter from Manorama came to know about my creations and contacted me in order to obtain details to publish an article featuring me. I was really happy and excited when I saw myself on the news and got amused by seeing everyone’s response. People began to text me with congratulating messages, and I had a good amount of new friends online. The response was wonderful and also my download counts started to increase, as a result three of my apps has already crossed a hundred downloads, which is a big deal for me. The huge and tremendous response inspired and motivated me to innovate new apps and solutions. I’m very thankful to Manorama and the reporter for giving me such a wonderful exposure. Link to the News  

December 21, After attending the GDG meetup, I got an invitation to Samsung's Tizen DevLabs hosted at Holiday Inn, Kochi. I was really glad to get the invitation to the program. The program started and everyone was somewhat confused when they saw me attending the event and during the first break in the sessions, people came to me and started asking about me, my age, what I do and all, and was really happy. After some more sessions, many people came to me congratulated me, took selfies with me. And I was really amused seeing such a great response from them. And finally when they were about to wind up the whole event, the people who hosted the events who were from Samsung Research and Development Bangalore, talked a few words about me and introduced me as the youngest developer to attend that event, and I was really happy and completely got amused when those people came to me and took selfies with me, and they also took my number. And after the event, everyone was given away a Tizen...

17th December 2016, really an exciting day of my life. Since i was introduced to the tech industry at a small age, i always wanted to speak about my startup or my softwares in front of a wide audience. And today it was possible, i was invited to a Monthly meetup organised by GDG Cochin or Google Developer Group Cochin, i was assigned to speak about my journey of being an Android Developer at a small age. The event was hosted at Infopark, Cochin which is a bit far away from my hometown Kottayam, the distance is approximately 64kms. I reached the location by 10:30, all prepared with ppt and filled with inspirations. I had the second session, and i was able to complete my talk without any major mistakes. And after that a lot of people came to me and congratulated me, wished me and they all were very motivating and they all welcomed me in a very nice manner. I was very happy with the overall experience. It was the first GDG meetup I've attended, and very glad to recieve such an oppurt...

When i turned 13, i started doing Android. I turned to Android because the mobile platforms were rising and Android was Google's OS, so its reliable and will be developer-friendly. So i completely planned on doing Android Development. I got the SDK and Android Studio set up, but didn't knew where to start from and what all to learn first, i googled a lot and found that online video courses and tutorials can help me, As my family is not very wealthy i didn't planned on buying any online course, so i searched for the best free Android course i could get and finally if found Udacity. Udacity's courses which are powered by Google are really really helpful in making you an Android Developer. The videos they provided the quiz and challenges they gave was just perfect for me to begin developing Android Apps. In this way i was able to start Android Development. But i always keep learning inorder to improve my skills and grow my knowledge. As Android has becamed a large platfor...