Night Sky Part 2

Second try... I got a complaint that the sky had too much stars. And since I like to give the option to customize everything, I threw the static night sky photo away and made my own instead. Now you can set how many stars you like. And while I was at it, I added twinkling stars and shooting stars as well. And of course the option to turn them off too.


The sky is a separate texture that is created once every time the star count is changed. So I didn't have to keep performance in mind when deciding max star count. 5000 is max now, since I thought 10000 made the night sky a bit too cluttered.

Clover Field

Just released a new flower wallpaper - Clover Field Live Wallpaper.

This time with red clovers and I added an extra "grass type" with just clover leaves as an option. I made one small improvement in the general "Flowers" project, now the flowers can have an y-offset making them appear different in height. The clovers can vary 30% from their original height in this particular lwp.

I also found some very nice looking cc licensed trees on Flickr for the background.

And I finally built me a macro for exporting all icon png:s as well as a .vbs file to move them in the right folders. This will save some boring admin time in the future.

Enjoy! :)

Night Sky Part 1

After multiple requests I have decided to start implementing a night sky with stars. First version is now out in Rose Garden Live Wallpaper and Corn Field Live Wallpaper.

This one is a static night sky, I will add twinkling stars and shooting stars later on.

Now, time for weekend!

Rose Garden

I had less development time this week due to kindergarten party, wife having to visit the doctor and a business meeting. And as described earlier inspiration has been low. But I did manage to get another wallpaper ready just before Friday's work day ended.

My wife has been on to me for a while about making a live wallpaper with roses. I started the work a couple of times but never really could see how I would do it. I couldn't just use my flower template because roses don't grow on a field with one flower on a stem like daisies or dandelions. However I finally tried it with some more bush like cc images of different pink roses I found on Flickr. Then I played with the angle and size and think the end result was pretty nice:

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

I don't know why but I visualized the background as something old with stones, a ruin, a cottage or a wall. When I found a nice creative commons photo of Visingsborg Castle on Visingsö, Sweden I grabbed my tablet and pen and quickly cut it out, stitched the left and right side together for the eternal horizontal scroll and I think it fitted nice into the rose garden.

I also added some rose petals falling like snow from the sky. How can they do that? Where do they come from? I don't know. Maybe there was a storm that carried them long and high by the wind. It really doesn't matter. It looks nice. And If you don't like it, you can always move the petal count slider to zero. :)

If the Rose Garden Live Wallpaper hits some downloads I will isolate some more roses in different colors and add the option to change roses in the full version.

Mount Rainier

Based on the previous quite popular "Mountain Lake Live Wallpaper" I decided to make a similar, with different background and foreground flowers. I found this very nice photo of Mount Rainier taken by Frank Kovalchek that felt like made for a wallpaper: "Stitched shot of Mt. Rainier and Little Tahoma reflected on Bench Lake".

Please have a look at Mount Rainier Live Wallpaper on Google Play.

Instead of using lupins and dandelions I hunted down some creative commons photos of fireweed (that took ages to isolate with the pen and tablet) for the foreground flowers. I think those work well with a landscape like this.

I also included the new easter egg function "Bird Hunt Mode" for both the paid and free version.

Other than that this lwp is very similar to Mountain Lake so if you already are using that one, this might not add so much to your lwp collection. Some small improvements with the scroll and waves; the scroll should be more consistent now when changing wallpaper priority. The waves were too fast before on new high end phones. Their speed are now system clock based and should be the same regardless of the device's computing power.

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About Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier is a massive stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle in the state of Washington, United States. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m). Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list. Because of its large amount of glacial ice, Mt. Rainier could potentially produce massive lahars that would threaten the whole Puyallup River valley.

About Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium, commonly known as Fireweed (mainly in North America), Great Willow-herb (Canada), or Rosebay Willowherb (mainly in Britain), is a perennial herbaceous plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. It is native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, including large parts of the boreal forests.

Bird Hunt Mode

I have been out of inspiration and energy the last days. So instead of looking for new scenes for live wallpapers I have been playing around with the birds in my Landscape project. In the settings it's now possible to enable "Bird Hunt Mode" and then just tap on the screen where you want to shoot. The first wallpaper where this has been implemented (still beta) is "Misty Forest". For now I have decided to leave the option to enable bird hunt mode in both the free and full version.

I have also added some stats:

- shots fired
- hits
- kills
- direct kills

Maybe it would be nice to add a global hiscore table as well. Let's see if there are any more than me who find this a fun "easter egg" though... :)

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