I'm developing an app for a client, but they are responsible for the APIs.

Which turns out is the biggest mistake of my life...

I don't know whether data types are unknown to them or they are just playing a sick game with my emotions.

They have a different data type depending on how they feel, e.g.

- a boolean can be true, false, 0,1 or 2...
- an array can be an array or just a single item...

Who in their right mind can do this?

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Some advice would be greatly appreciated: I have an app on the play store that currently is free with ads, and an in app purchase to remove the ads. Is there a better way of trying to get people donating or should I go overboard with the ads (something I am very hesistant to do)

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...

User:"It's not working"
Me:"Have you turned it off and on again?"
User:"Yes"
Me: goes down there, system uptime is 360days...
"How do you turn it off?"
User:"by pressing the button on the monitor

Tell me of this seems right: We used to operate (before I started) in a the user is always right way, if a user wanted a button to wipe his/her arse they got it.

I don't understand how a software developer can operate in this way (or am I missing something?) the users are all staff at the school

At our school, they teach "digital creativity" instead of ICT. They also teach coding... Which they think means scratch....

Gremlin
[grem-lin]
Noun
1. When a user is incompetent and blames their problems on the computer:, "My computer is full of gremlins"