Maxr1998

Welcome to my Website! // About Maxr1998

Hey there! I'm Max Rumpf, a 22-year old student & hobbyist Android developer acting under the pseudonyme Maxr1998. I am Recognized Developer on xda-developers.com.
In my free-time, I create apps and mods for powerusers, like MaxLock, an applocker, or HassDroid, a client for the Home Assistant home automation platform. View a list of my projects here.
I'm also active on various other sites, check out the links below. You can contact me via Telegram, as specified below.


My GPG key: 11CDF7B8

My stuff

Hardware & Software I use, like and recommend:

  • Dell XPS 13 [9360, i7-7560U, 16GB RAM] - (powerful, well-built & good-looking, great screen and battery life)
  • Arch Linux + i3 - dotfiles
  • fish shell
  • Vim - current config

Skills

Languages

  • German: natively
  • English: advanced (Cambridge English: Advanced certificate, CEFR level C1)
  • French: basic (DELF certificate, CEFR level B1)

Software experience/programming languages

  • Android (Kotlin/Java)
  • Linux, shell scripting and server management
  • Web development (Ktor, Go, node.js, Tomcat, Django, WebGL)
  • Telegram bots and command line apps in Go
  • C, RISC-V Assembler (in University)
  • Docker (because containers rule™)
  • First experiences in Haskell (workshop) and Fortran
  • Lua (ComputerCraft coding)
  • Atlassian stack (for the CampusApp of Augsburg University)
  • See my GitHub for more…

Projects & Contributions

MaxLock

Android
(Xposed)
Java
Kotlin
MaxLock is an applocker for Android, that features a powerful Xposed implementation as well as a no-root accessibility service one to protect your apps with a lockscreen.
Visit official websiteVisit XDA-ThreadView source on GitHub

XGPM [abandoned]

Android
Xposed
Java
Xposed mod that customizes the look and feel of the Google Play Music application and adds a few extra tweaks.
Download from Xposed repoVisit XDA-ThreadView on GitHub

hellsCode [abandoned]

Linux
C
Android
Xposed
Java
hellsCode is a kernel and system mod that enables unlocking via knock code on the Nexus 4 with hellsCore kernel.
Visit XDA-ThreadView on GitHub

XMediaNotificationTrackSelector [abandoned]

Android
Xposed
Java
Xposed mod that adds a track selector to MediaStyle and other music notifications on Android 5.0 which either support its custom API or the official MediaSession API with queue and controls. Supported by Google Play Music and Timber.
Download from Xposed repoView on GitHub

Always On AMOLED

Android
Java

App which makes your device show the time & more when the screen is "off", just like the Galaxy S7!

Contributions: Pocket mode, bug fixes, etc.

Main author: Tomer Rosenfeld

Visit GitHub page

Android N-ify

Android
Xposed
Java

Xposed mod that backports features from Android Nougat to Android Lollipop and Marshmallow!

Contributions: Direct reply, Google Assistant, Partial screenshot, bugfixes, build server and issue management.

Main authors: MrWasdennnoch and paphonb

Download from Jenkins CIVisit GitHub page

AndroidPAM

C
Android
Java
Android app and linux-pam module which allows you to unlock your PC with your phone's fingerprint reader, using a challenge response verification system with an ECDSA keypair, and the Google Firebase realtime-database for message transfer.
View on GitHub (Module)View on GitHub (App)

HassDroid [abandoned]

Android
Java
Kotlin
Native Android client for the Home Assistant home automation system.
Visit GitHub page with downloadsVisit official Home Assistant Website

QMK firmware

C

Open-source firmware for AVR and ARM based mechanical keyboards.

Contributions: various improvements, code review, personal keyboard configurations and documentation improvements (including translation).

View on GitHub

Niagara Launcher

Android
Java
Kotlin

A modern + minimalist Android home screen optimized for one-✋ access and staying focused.

Main developer: Peter Huber (8bitPit)

Visit websiteGet on Google Play

WeekDaySelectView

Android
Kotlin
Custom View that allows to select a day of week like in a calendar, written for the CampusApp of my University.
View on GitHub

RACE

Swing
JDBC
Java
Personal finance management software, University project in the summer semester 2018.

IngressDataDumpExplorer

Go
WebGL
JavaScript
A website to view your unique visits from the game Ingress on a map (using leaflet.js), with a Go backend (optionally inside docker) and a JavaScript + WebGL frontend.
View on GitHub

ModernAndroidPreferences

Android
Kotlin
Android Preferences UI defined through Kotlin DSL, shown in a RecyclerView.
View on GitHub

Backend for Niagara Launcher

Ktor
Exposed
Kotlin
Postgres
Full backend implementation including license verification, weather API proxy, and other things.

Software project for makandra

Tomcat/Servlets
Hibernate
Java
Postgres
Open-source-library management software to facilitate communication between software developers and legal staff.

Score management system for tutorials

Django
Python
Contract work for the computer science chair at Augsburg University.

SimpleShutdownDialog

GTK
C
Restart dialog for X11 (Linux).
View on GitHub

SpotifyStats

Nuxt
Vue
TypeScript
Webapp to analyze your Spotify data dumps.
View on GitHub

Jellyfin Media Server

Android
Kotlin
JavaScript
C\#

Android app rewritten from scratch with a modern software stack, replacing the old Cordova-based client

Translations

I also helped translating quite a few third-party apps to German, here are some of them:

  • Always On AMOLED
  • Android N-ify
  • hellsCore Kernel Manager
  • MultiROM Manager
  • XDA-Labs
  • Niagara Launcher