I Dug Up My 10-Year-Old Android App, Dusted It Off With AI, and Put It Back on the Play Store

Last week I did something I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did — I resurrected a side project I hadn't touched in a decade. Meet Drivelert : an anti-drowsiness app I built ages ago to help drivers stay alert on long trips. The Play Store had quietly pulled it down due to ancient target SDK, zero maintenance, the usual graveyard story. I'd moved on. The app hadn't. Then, for reasons I can't fully explain (nostalgia? a slow weekend? some stubborn refusal to let past-me's work die?), I decided to bring it back. What Even Was This Thing? Drivelert was a simple but genuinely useful idea: monitor signs of driver fatigue and alert them before it becomes dangerous. I built it back when I was younger, more idealistic, and apparently not bothered by shipping something and completely abandoning it. The code was... a time capsule. Deprecated APIs, patterns I wouldn't touch today, some choices that made me genuinely wince. But the idea was solid. The bones were good. A decade later: smarter, m