# Bringing An Awesome App to Life: 1 Second Everyday for Android - Touchlab

DevFeed: [Bringing An Awesome App to Life: 1 Second Everyday for Android - Touchlab](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bringing-an-awesome-app-to-life-1-second-everyday-for-android-touchlab-38075.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://touchlab.co/2013-08-bringing-an-awesome-app-to-life-1-second-everyday-for>)

Published: 2013-08-01T22:37:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Touchlab | Enterprise Mobile Innovation & Development](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/touchlab-enterprise-mobile-innovation-development.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [announce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announce.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [built-by-touchlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/built-by-touchlab.md>), [codec](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codec.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [h-264](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/h-264.md>), [press](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/press.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>)

## AI overview

Touchlab announces the Android app for 1 Second Everyday and describes the engineering challenges involved in adding video recording and editing. The team used H.264 to support sharing across platforms and developed techniques to cut and merge one-second clips despite Android's limited built-in video-editing capabilities and manufacturer-specific output differences.

## Source excerpt

I'm thrilled to announce today's launch of 1 Second Everyday's Android app. We worked super hard but it was worth it to support such an awesome endeavor.