📱 DoooM 📜
05 Apr 2026 • 1 min read
a scrolling tracker
Work has started on DoooM a simple yet hopefully informative android usage tracker that reflects the recent history of scrolling activity.
Having previously made a progressive web app in the form of when-ze-bus, we're now looking at system level programming with Kotlin, a Java compatible language that can receive android's AccessibilityService events, and hence has the ability to reflect on scrolling behaviours.
Scroll increments seem to be measured by distance rather than individual actions: a side swish maybe just one or two points, a little vertical swish (such as when reading) will result in the counter going up a handful, but a big infinite-feed type swash can result in tens or even hundreds being added to the daily tally. I'm still getting a feel for how it works, but it does seem to be generally reflective of usage behaviours. A normal day's scrolling through feeds may see thousands, perhaps tens-of-thousands, of points being added up.
The f-doid packaging process awaits, and a couple of features lined up, but in the meantime, it can be evaluated with this package:
