Binary Tree - Come On...

I recently published a new Live Wallpaper called "Binary Tree". It is not based on any of my "Nature" projects published before, and is quite different. As was "Magnitic Balls", another one that I published in the beginning of the summer. The latter soon became quite popular (> 93 000 downloads since Jun 19).

I'm quite pleased with this new "Binary Tree" lwp. It has loads of settings and you can make the tree look and behave extremely different.

In the basic setup, it's a tree with branches in different lengths, and all branches end in a 1 or 0. Branches sway slowly, so the tree never is static. And branches go in all directions, including Z, making it very much 3d. When you swipe to change home screens, the tree turns around its own Y axis. That means that it is spinning.

Branches have a life time, and after a while the fade away, giving room for a new branch to get born. The new branch is "drawn" by a glowing cursor, and as it gets fully grown the cursor explodes in a flash of light leaving a 0 or 1 when it fades out.

However, my users don't seem to recognize it at all. Downloads are very modest. You should really try it out. Much work and thinking behind this one! Make use of your 15 minutes of refund time and try all the settings in order to make it look just the way you like it, at this time. And change it later on. I think it's very cool, and trust that you will too! :)

Full version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.binarytreefull

Free version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.binarytreefree

Autumn Lake

While I was at it... I made another autumn live wallpaper, this time based on my "Reflections" project instead of the previous that was based on my "Flowers" project. Previous reflections wallpapers are "Mountain Lake", "Forest Lake" and a couple of more.

I made few additions to this one (except the pictures of course), but I added the option to completely remove the foreground (flowers and grass), leaving more screen space for the water reflections. And I also added the option to select between two different backgrounds.

The colorful autumn forests look very good reflecting in the water as the sky and clouds shift in different colors during the day.

Full version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.autumnlakefull

Free version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.autumnlakefree

Autumn Trees

The circle is closed. Winter, Spring, Summer... and now Autumn Trees. One tree live wallpaper for each season. This one is quite similar to summer trees, of course with different trees, colors and background. And with the addition of being able to select different types of falling objects (leaves in different colors or the spinning seeds from summer trees).

As always, two versions. One free with most settings locked. And one full with tons of settings, priced the lowest allowed by Google - $0.99 (+ VAT if you're in Europe). Both are, of course, ad free.

Recognize the tree? Yes it's the same as the "Summer Trees" maple. It worked well just changing the color in Photoshop. The oak is there as well, with modified leaf colors. I did add some "real" autumn trees to select from as well though; one yellow maple, one maple that shifts from green to orange and one rowan tree with red berries. All in all five trees to choose from.
 

Hope you like it!

Full version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.autumntreesfull

Free version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adermark.autumntreesfree

Sea of Poppies

I have been busy with a customer project for the last month, hence no new releases.

Today, however, I thought I had some time to do other stuff, so I started with a new poppy wallpaper. I already have one out, but it's focused on more close-ups of the flowers. I wanted one where you see them from a distance and get the feeling of a red sea of poppies.

I found this gorgeous cc image by Geomangio a while ago and have wanted to do something with it since then:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/geomangio/488581670/

So I isolated the background and then used some of my previous objects to compile this new "Sea of Poppies Live Wallpaper". Hope you like it!

Find it here:
Sea of Poppies (Full Version)
Sea of Poppies (Free Version)

InstaSquare

For the first time in a long while I'm releasing something that's not a wallpaper. The new app is a simple photo-editing app called InstaSquare.

Instagram for Android was an instant hit and I started using it with my iPhone friends who where already in there. I quickly noticed the limitations of the square format though. Since I'm also a photographer and often want to share real photos and I had to crop them badly to put them on instagram.

So I made this app where it's very easy to either just use your photo without crop, or fine tune it by just zooming in a little, moving it around in the square frame or even rotating it without limitations (not just the 90 degrees that are so common) with an easy rotating gesture using your thumb and index finger (pinch). The free rotation feature is rarely found in other photo edit apps, and no one I have seen does it as easy and fast as InstaSquare.

I plan to extend the functinality by letting the user select background color, maybe add textured backrounds and increase the photo size from 1024x1024 to 2048x2048 in the near future.

Also I will release a free version of the app with some functions locked.

Magnetic Balls

So this new Magnetic Balls Live Wallpaper is a bit different from most of my previous wallpapers. It's not about nature, skies, clouds, stars, birds or even flowers. It's just lots and lots of balls. They follow your touch and are sucked towards your finger. And after a while they drop and fall right back where they started. There are a bunch of settings in the full version:

- Object shape (they don't have to be balls)
- Grid distance
- Distance between balls
- Lift speed (how fast do they "jump")
- Gravity (how fast do they fall)
- Float time (increase to make them stay in the air in the highest position before dropping)
- Ball size
- Lift neighbors (how many neighbor balls are affected when a ball starts to fly)
- Color of balls
- Random color changes when touched (on/off)

Playing around with these controls can make them change behaviour quite dramatically. From a slow jello to popping popcorns.

If color changes are enabled each swipe will generate a new random color and the balls you touch shift color. After that they "bleed" this color to their neigbors and after a while all colors start blending together to a nice smooth gradient. Your wallpaper never will look the same from one minute to another.

And please comments, bug reports, improvements, suggestions - just write them here in this blog.

Enjoy!

Birch Wood

I have wanted to do something like this for a while. I visualized the birch forest with just white birch trunks. However after deploying the first version I couldn't make it look as I wanted, the trunks where just too tall (attached image) when in portrait mode (which must be the most common mode by far). So I started looking for a nice clean birch crown to add to the top of the trunks. After hours of searching both on Flickr creative commons and stock photo sites I couldn't find anything that looked nice. I added some green leaves but am not quite happy with the result. Better than the first release but I have to keep looking. Or bring my camera for a birch-hunt.