Wakka Wallpaper is an Android live wallpaper which emulates a popular 1980’s arcade game around your launcher icons.
Market link: http://tinyurl.com/24calz7 or search “Wakka Wallpaper”
Introduction:
A bunch of my projects are at large “in between” stages. Here is what the near future holds for them:
This is the app that got me my developer seeded Nexus One so it gets the first revamping. I have just begun rewriting this from scratch as an exercise to get back in to Android development and to resolve some issues which were brought to light since its release. The development is all open source so more contributions on the GitHub project are always welcome. Coming in this 2.0 will be features such as message start warning, initial vibration delay, multiple morse code dictionary support, and not vibrating while in-call.
Banned from the Android market on the cusp of 10,000 downloads and rapidly approaching 2,500 from here this app is definitely in need of a 2.0. A popular teaser shot was posted way back in the day showing advanced features such as multiple simultaneous barrages, scheduled barrages, and drafts but development was never completed due to the lack of a device to test it on. Easily the most useful app (read: mischevous) app I have it too will be given high priority for completion. It also goes faster with development assistance…
Two teaser shots as well as a teaser video were shown for this a long time ago but fell to the same fate as SMSBarrage 2.0 did. Today I discovered Handy Poll which has striking resemblance to my app (though was released many months later). Having not yet had a chance to play with Handy Poll I can’t say as to how it compares but I still would like to continue development on this, albeit at a much lower priority. The source exists on GitHub, as with everything else.
In the middle of a 2.0 rewrite to remove the jQuery UI dependency and is nearly complete once a few minor issues are resolved. Expect to see this within a month or two at the most.
Writing this for integration at my work and as it started out dependent on jQuery UI it too must be retooled to work without it. Most likely will be developed alongside but slightly behind jQValidate so two to three months should see a full 1.0 release.
A python rewrite to mitigate inconsistencies between platforms has started and it is just about to a working bare-bones state. Post-1.0 features will be ported to the future branch as time permits but as I no longer use this script and the current version works just fine it will be lowest priority. However, as this natively supports two major features the 1.x versions lack, multiple file and multiple track support, it will not be forgotten. Expect the 2.0 sometime over the summer.
This is a python script/library I am writing which allows for the downloading of videos off of YouTube, Vimeo, and any other site (provided you write a small plugin) for use in a small side project. It has gone to 1.0 but is very rudimentary in supporting only certain resolutions per platform. It requires only a few hours tweaking to be a full, world-ready release. Expect within April.
WordPress is not the platform for me. I’ll be developing a more project oriented site over the summer with a focus on easier discovery and access to information for each. I do believe Django will be the framework of choice with a wholly custom layout and a few custom Django apps as well. The static layout mockup is nearly complete so porting to a template and then integrating the necessary Django apps will start soon.
SMSPoll is an application for the Android platform which will allow you to conduct polls over SMS messages. It supports running multiple polls at once, a variety of different response types, and individual poll settings.
SMSMorse is now available for free on the Android Market due to an underwhelming performance at $0.99! You can view the package on Cyrket or click the barcode to the right if you’re on an Android device to go directly to the market.
The $0.99 version is still available and its title has been suffixed by “DONATE”. Any updates to the application will be pushed to users who have purchased the $0.99 version initially and then to the free version later.
If you get good use out of the free version I would greatly appreciate you purchasing the $0.99 version to support development. You can also donate without sending Google 30% of the purchase price by clicking the donate link in the menu to the left and choose an appropriate method.
Since the application is now free you can browse the source code either through the project manager or directly.
SMSMorse is an Android application which will intercept incoming SMS messages and vibrate their contents in morse code.
Version 0.1.0 is a rudimentary proof-of-concept version but does provide some simple settings to customize the notification. The single dot length, the basis for the length of all timing (dash, letter space, word space, etc.), can be adjusted from 50ms to 250ms. You can also optionally choose to include the sender’s number before or after the message contents.
Future versions will include features such as cancelling a current vibration, vibrating sender number only, and automatic starting of the service on device boot.
The application is available in the Android Market for $0.99. Feature requests and bug reports can be submitted by going to the project page below.
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Jake Wharton
Pittsburgh, PA
