Instant Mustache #1 - The idea

This article is part of a series of articles about the development process of Instant Mustache, a fun camera app that adds mustaches to all faces using face detection. Click here to get a chronological list of all published articles about Instant Mustache.

The idea
Instant Mustache is the name of an app that I'm going to develop. The idea is to show the development process of an app starting from a rough idea to a full featured app in the Android market. I'll demonstrate the process of developing the app as well as the thoughts and decisions involved. The source code will be publicly available on GitHub.

Later versions of this series of articles are expected to be about topics like refactoring, adding features, testing and maybe monetization. I'll try to make everything as transparent as possible including user statistics of the Android market.

The app
Instant Mustache is a fun app that utilizes the face tracking feature of Android 4.x to add mustaches to all detected faces currently visible to the camera. Users will be able to take funny pictures and share them with their friends on social networks or other apps on their mobile phone. The user shouldn't need to place the mustaches herself. Instead the placing should be done automatically for every detected face.

This is a rough idea every developer can come up with. In the following postings we will refine the idea, plan the app with some basic wireframes and develop an elementary version that can be extended to match our planned full-featured app later.

Do not forget the napkin

Of course as a good entrepreneur we had this world-changing idea on the go and had only time to sketch it on a napkin to not forget it later.

So here is the napkin we came up with: