Photokube 1.8 released!

Whats new in this one? The new icon for a start, and new promotional graphics:

And to justify a new version, two cool new special effects, Invert Hue and Invert Colour:

Invert Colour gives the classic photographic negative look, whilst Invert Hue swaps the colours round without swapping the brightness or contrast. Gives a cooler temperature look to the photos..



New Photokube Icon

Noticed that I get a lot more sales when Photokube is listed on the front page of LiveWallpapers.org, so am pretty sure that people like it if they actually see it. So going to do a bit of a marketing push.

First thing, need to update the icon. The existing cube with Android logos in different colours is cute, and very Androidy, but doesn't actually indicate what the purpose of the Wallpaper, namely to show your own photos. So the new logo shows some typical usage, a picture of a person, a flower and a balloon to indicate people, nature and landscapes. Hopefully if people see this when scrolling through the market they will be more likely to stop and have a look.

Click for a larger image, the 1st is 512x512 in size for promotional purposes, the others are internal sizes used on the phone itself, corresponding to the various screen sizes out there.

Let me know what you think..

Photokube 1.7 released!

New version is live on the Market now, featuring the new floating panels:

Hope you like it...

Better Screenshots

Solved the issue of the dodgy OpenGL screen shots. Wrote some code for a special Screenshot mode, when enabled that freezes all movement of cube and panels, so that I can manually rotate the cube to where I want it to be. Tapping the screen randomly positions the floating panels.

That gives a static image that can be captured nicely, voila!

This one is at the native resolution, click for bigger:



Now all I have to do is learn about HTML, so I can do some really simple stuff on this blog like showing the above images side by side...

Floating Panels

Floating panels now in Photokube!

From 0-10 panels that show one of the pictures from the sides of the cube, appearing in a random position with random rotation, size and direction.

If you tap on a panel, it spirals into the screen and disappears, only to be regenerated off screen and appear again. Playing around with it gives me another idea for some sort of mini game within the wallpaper, see if you can make them all disappear within a certain time limit. 

But what would be the reward? Hmmm.

The panels look a bit jagged in the screenshot, there is no easy way to smoothly capture a moving OpenGL image from the phone, particularly when it is rotating. It appears as smooth as silk on the actual device, of course.

Bit of testing, then should update on to the market in the next day or so.
If it proves popular I might add mini cubes instead of panels.