scowluga/pokemove — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-08-10 · repo last pushed 2019-05-13
Check if a Pokemon is weak or strong against a specific move type during gameplay
Look up damage multipliers without memorizing type charts
Quickly find a Pokemon by name with autocomplete typing
Get instant type effectiveness answers on your phone mid-battle
| scowluga/pokemove | denizaydogan1902/anvilai | mfori/bit-aes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Language | Kotlin | Kotlin | Kotlin |
| Last pushed | 2019-05-13 | — | 2020-05-11 |
| Maintenance | Dormant | — | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | hard | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | general | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Available on Google Play Store so no build step needed, developers can clone and open in Android Studio.
PokeMove is a simple Android app that answers a question every Pokemon trainer faces at some point: "Is this Pokemon weak or strong against this type?" Instead of memorizing type charts or looking things up on a wiki, you type in a Pokemon's name, pick a type, and the app tells you the damage multiplier, whether it takes extra damage, reduced damage, or normal damage from that type. Under the hood, it's a fairly thin app. It pulls live data from PokeAPI, a free public database of Pokemon information, rather than shipping its own copy of all those stats. You start typing a Pokemon name and an autocomplete feature helps you finish it. Then the app looks up how that Pokemon's typing interacts with whatever move type you're checking and displays the result. The README doesn't go into detail on exactly which generations or how many Pokemon are supported, but since it relies on a live API, coverage likely tracks whatever that database knows about. The intended audience is casual Pokemon players who want a quick reference tool on their phone. If you're mid-battle and can't remember whether Water is super effective against Steel, or whether Fairy resists Bug, this saves you a trip to a browser. It's the kind of utility app that lives on your home screen during a playthrough and then quietly gets uninstalled when you're done. In terms of how it's built, the project uses Kotlin as its programming language and leans on a couple of standard Android libraries for handling network requests and background data loading. It's published on the Google Play Store, so you don't need to build it yourself, you can just install it. The scope is intentionally narrow: it does one lookup task and nothing else, which keeps it lightweight and quick to use.
PokeMove is a simple Android app that tells you whether a Pokemon is weak or strong against a specific move type. Type a Pokemon name, pick a type, and see the damage multiplier instantly.
Mainly Kotlin. The stack also includes Kotlin, Android.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2019-05-13).
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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