He is only 17 but Apple has already invited the Hungarian iOS-developer two times – video

Roland Horváth from Sopron learned the basics of coding by watching videos on the Internet. However, he was bitten by the coding bug so he later learned more sophisticated languages. He created his first app when he was 13 and he was already invited as a presenter to the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) where he could personally meet Tim Cook, the CEO of the company – reported hvg.hu.

Addicted to coding since the age of 9

‘I was maybe 9. I played computer games a lot, but I was thinking about how I could realise my ideas for new games. Thus, I kept searching on the Internet with my basic-level English how I can write a game. I found GameMaker, a visual game maker program. Then I was creating simple games all day with the knowledge I acquired until then” – told Roland about the start of his career.

According to the secondary school student from Sopron, he started to make a lot of games but he finished only some of them.

“My devotion towards coding came with my first smartphone’

– added Roland.

He created his first working app when he was 13 as a school project. Show Me! is promoting sign language and he worked on it for months then. However, it was

a real breakthrough in his career

since it received many awards. For example, it was awarded at Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles in 2017. Despite his young age, Roland is very purposeful, according to him; his apps are inspired by everyday problems.

Apps inspired by everyday problems

For example, he already created a GPS-based alarm clock (Transitnap) which wakes up people a couple of minutes before they reach their destination so they would not miss their station because they sleep or talk. For this idea, he was thanked from 30 countries, but he received no money since