Dynamic Paint Live Wallpaper v1.15

  - Update: Lower memory usage

This is primarily a bug fix release that does a better job of managing its render-to-texture buffers.  This should trim the memory usage by a few megs, and hopefully help performance a bit besides.

Silhouette Live Wallpaper v1.6

  - Update: Nicer cloud overlay art
  - Update: Fixed dithering on sky backdrop
  - Update: New icon and thumbnail art
  - Update: Added live wallpaper usage flag
  - Bug Fix: Better preview screen behavior

On a really high res device, the lack of dithering in particular actually makes a pretty huge difference.  It's a lot cleaner and sharper, and that's helped along by the new cloud overlay art.  I also made the cloud angle a lot more extreme so it feels more like things are coming in from a distance than it did before.  The new cloud overlay is completely greyscale as well, so despite being four times the resolution should use the same amount of memory.

These changes definitely look sharper and hold up very well on even a high res screen.

Easter Meadows Live Wallpaper v1.0

(Android Market)
(YouTube Video)

Finally got this one published after tinkering with it for far too long.  Basically what we have here is a colorful easter scene, complete with blowing grass, butterflies, eggs, and more.  It turned out really beautifully and I'm extremely proud of the result, especially considering the fairly meager hardware we've got it running on.

On a technical level we spent a ton of time experimenting with the grass, and went through a few different iterations as far as rendering it goes.  Ultimately we ended up with something like twelve thousand individual grass blades all animating and being influenced by the wind.  A bit overkill but I really like how the effect turned out.  :)

There's a variety of settings to control number of eggs, which basket you want, how fast the wind moves, how many butterflies there are, etc.  In addition, the 99 cent version gains twice as many egg and butterfly variations.

I think this is one of the prettiest projects we have on the market so far and am really excited to hear what people think.  As always, if you have any problems please let us know!

Blue Skies Live Wallpaper v1.35

  - New Feature: Accurate sunrise/sunset times for your position
  - Update: New icon/thumbnail art
  - Bug Fix: Now unregistering battery intent receiver properly.

Update: v1.36 just released.  This fixes an issue with the moon/sun not displaying properly.


Similar to Snowfall, Blue Skies will now use your coarse location to calculate sunrise/sunset based upon your current location and time zone.  This seems to work well in practice, let me know if you run into any issues!

The icon and thumbnail art is now higher res, so it'll look better on tablets mostly.

If you've ever looked at your log and seen a warning about an intent receiver leaking, that's because we were registering to get updates about the phone's battery, but had forgotten to unregister upon shutdown.  This is fixed now.

Both this and Snowfall now have the live wallpaper filter enabled as well, so hopefully that'll help reduce confusion a touch.

Snowfall Live Wallpaper v1.25

  - New Feature: Time of Day now calculates accurate sunset/sunrise
  - Update: Santa sightings more frequent outside of December
  - Update: Higher res icon/thumbnail art
  - Bug Fix: Fixed compatibility detection

The big thing here is that enabling Time of Day will now check your coarse location, and calculate an accurate sunset/sunrise time based on it.  This is one of those things we've gotten a bunch of e-mail about over time, so hopefully folks like the additional accuracy.

Dynamic Paint Live Wallpaper v1.1

  - New Feature: Brush width preference
  - Update: Two new backgrounds -- Mosaic and Canvas
  - Bug Fix: Black screen on Tegra devices

Some new stuff for this update, including a couple of new backgrounds.  Mosaic's indentations show off the effect quite well.  We also have support in for ETC1 compressed textures, so the memory usage should be better.

In addition, you can how customize the width of your brush when interacting with the screen!