How to add a gif as an android wearable watchface

Here is a short description on how to add a custom gif as an android watchface.

Things you need:

- aGif Watchface (for free at the play store)
- a cool gif animation (http://giphy.com)
- probably Gimp to rescale the gif image

1. Find a cool gif animation

Got it? Okay, lets to the next

2. Resize the gif animation

Your wearable is a small device, the gif should be reduced to minimum size. The best is to rescale its resolution to your wearables resolution (mostly 320x280 or 320x320).
This can be easily done with Gimp.

3. Copy the gif animation to your smartphone, dropbox or upload it somewhere.

4. Upload the gif animation to your watch with aGifWatchface.

After you have opened aGifWatchface, make sure that the connection to wearable is established. If you click on "test connection" you should receive a toast with the message "answer received". If not, please wait a little bit until the wearable is connected.

If you have the gif animation on your smartphone or dropbox you can add the file by clicking "open File", select it through your filemanager and send it directly to your device.

aGif Watchface

If you have uploaded the gif animation somewhere copy the URL to the textfield and click "download". This will download the gif animation and send it to your device.

Your wearable will notify you when the gif animation is received.

Gif animation received by wearable

 You can click on "set image" to open the aGifWatchface Configuration Activity.

This opens the aGif Watchface Configs where you can select your animation

All included animations will be on top of the list. Custom added animations will be visible when your scroll down. All custom gifs must end with .gif.

Included animations on top

Custom animations end with gif

Thats it! My new gif watchface is ready!

The new cool gif watchface

Android gif watchface

aGifWatchface

With the new watchface api 5.0 for android wear it is easily to develop new watchfaces. After testing some of the available watchfaces on the android market, I thought to myself that I need a simple analog watchface with some cool gif animations behind it.
That is why I created aGif Watchface for android.

Main Features of this app:

• Total free!
• Use any gif animation as a watchface
• 6 included animations

Using these features you can create your own custom watchface. Check out this article for some examples on how to add different gif animations as a watchface.

Changelog

Latest articles for aGif Watchface.

Here are some examples for aGif Watchface

With my latest app "aGif Watchface" you can use any gif animation as an android wear watchface!
Due to copyright reasons I could not include all animations I wanted. I only had the chance to add free animations.

But you can add cool gif watchfaces to your app on your own. Check these examples. Only the first animations are included inside the app. You have to search for custom animations with http://giphy.com/.

aGif Watchface Default animation

A psychodelic watchface

A cute blinking pear watchface

A simple matrix-like watchface

A cute baby seal as a watchface

Money counting watchface

A cool animation from total recall

Fry is clapping on your watchface

Calm waves as an animated watchface

Nyancat hovers over your watchface

The glory hypnotoad as a watchface

A flight through space as a watchface

Phone Drop Scream App

Phone Drop Scream for android

Hello Users!

I was inspired by xkcd to create an android app that makes your phone scream when falling or dropping.
After one night of creating a prototype I am now ready to release this cool app for you!

Drop Scream App for android

Features:

• Free for use!
• Detects when you drop your phone and fires a customizable sound
• Customizable sensor sensitivity threshold
• Widget with drop counter

Sounds:

• Wilhelm Scream
• Shattering Glas
• Burp
• Fart
• Explosion
• Nooooo
• Funny Sheep

Phone Drop Scream App

The app is only 1.5 mb in size and can be downloaded at the google play store for free!

Used permissions:
This app uses a few permission, but does not collect any personal data or uses aggresive ads.
Inside the app is a small adbanner.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE and INTERNET permissions are used to load ads.
BILLING is used if you plan to remove ads from this app.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETE is used to init the service when your phone has rebooted
VIBRATE is currently not used :)

Phone Drop Scream Sounds

Baby Namen und Bedeutung für Android

Mit Baby Names findest du
schnell den Namen für dein Kind

Heute ist es wieder Zeit für eine neue kleine App von mir.

Baby Namen!

Mit dieser App kannst du die Bedeutung von über 6000 Namen nachschlagen und dir vom Eulenorakel den passenden Namen für deinen Kinder vorschlagen lassen.

Das Eulenorakel

Du kannst das magische Eulenorakel nach dem besten Namen für deine Kinder befragen. Dafür musst du dir deinen Namen und den deines Partners eintragen und nach einer kurzen Bedenkzeit hat die magische Eule die passenden Namen errechnet.

Das magische Eulenorakel

Namensbedeutung

Diese App beinhaltet Daten zu über 6000 Namen und deren Bedeutung. Du kannst dir die Bedeutungen vorlesen lassen, sie als favoriten setzen oder mit Freunden teilen.

Die Namensdatenbank

Das App Menü

Finding a babyname

With baby names for android you
can quickly find the right name for your baby

It is time to introduce a new app I have just released.

Baby Names!

This app features more then 800 english names and detailed descriptions.

The magic Owls Oracle will help you to find the right name for your baby.

The Owls Oracle

You can ask the magic owls oracle for the right name for your baby. All you have to do is enter your name and the name of your girlfriend or boyfriend. The owl will calculate a magic algorithm to get the right names.

The magic owls oracle

The Name meaning

You can search the whole database containing more then 800 names and detailed descriptions. Did you ever know where your name is from?

You can also set names as favorites and even let the app read the names description!

The name meaning database

The app menu

Baby names meanings for android

Free Bitcoin Charts App

Bitcoin Buddy

Bitcoin Buddy is a new free Bitcoin App for Android

Using this app you are able to monitor bitcoin prices in almost every currency and on almost all available markets.

• View Markets Statistics
• View Latest Trades Statistics
• 27 Currencies & 74 Markets available
• Get notification if bitcoin prices changes
• Pinch & Zoom diagrams

Although I have put a lot of work into this app, I cannot guarantee the correctness of the data. Please keep in mind that bitcoin prices may change very quickly.

Markets/Trades 

On these Views you can follow the latest Trades and Markets statistics.

You can select your currency and market at the bottom of the diagram.

The data is at least 15 minutes old.

Bitcoin Trades Charts

Bitcoin Markets Charts

Monitor Markets

You can configure this app to notify you whenever the bitcoin prices are changing.

Click on the upper right preferences-Button.

In the preferences you can select as many bitcoin markets as you want. The app will check these markets every 20 minutes.

Monitor bitcoin prices

Bitcoin Buddy Notification

The Bitcoin Buddy Icon

The Bitcoin Buddy Logo

The App Icon is a mix of the bitcoin icon and the android icon.

The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

All Bitcoin statistics data is provided by the awesome http://bitcoincharts.com API.

This App contains ads

If you don't like these ads, you can buy the premium addon. Open the App Menu, choose the Contact Tab and click on Buy premium.

If you have any problems with this app, feel free to contact me.

Where is my app?

Hey guys.

I always had the problem finding the apps I was looking for on my android device. While searching I kept swiping right and left through all my app icons but somehow I overseen the apps I was looking for.

Then I had an Idea:

Can I search my installed apps by name?

After researching a little bit, I did not find any cool app for this feature, so I started to create it on my own. Developing the "search app by name"- feature, I added a few other cool features, like sorting apps by usage.

And now I present to the first release of: "Where is my app?" :)

Filtering all installed apps by name

The two main features of this app are:

• Search and filter all installed apps by name
• Sort apps by usage. That means, if you start apps with "Where is my app?" they will be grouped on top of all apps, so you can start your regular apps quicker.
• If you do a long click on the app icons, you can quickly view app informations or even deinstall an app with just a quick click :)
• Cool fancy animations

 You can read more about the features of "Where is my app?" on the official "Where is my app blog"

You can deinstall apps with just a single click

This app is free for everybody! It has a small adbanner on the bottom, but if you like you can get the pro version of where is my app without ad.

Android App für Fefes Blog

Ein kostenloser Newsreader für Fefes Blog

Lange hat es gedauert, aber jetzt ist sie endlich da. Die Android App für Fefes Blog! Als langjähriger Leser von Fefes Blog hatte ich vor seit einiger Zeit die Idee aus ein paar alten Schnipseln Code eine kleine Newsreader App zu basteln.
Jetzt ist sie endlich da und Fefe wird sich über dieses Wunderwerk aus Java und XML bestimmt freuen ;)

Die App ist werbefrei und kostenlos und das bleibt sie auch. Sie besteht aus einem kleinen Newsreader, welcher in definierbaren Abständen Fefes RSS-Feed abruft.
Wenn diese Überprüfung neuen Klatsch in Fefes Blog entdeckt informiert die App euch mittels einer Benachrichtigung. Diese lässt sich im Einstellungsfenster konfigurieren oder deaktivieren.

Fefes Newsreader im Play Store.

My Nexus 4 temperature is quite hot

Click here to get to the new Homepage for Battery Temperature Guard

Hey guys.
I own a Nexus 4 and i really love it. The only thing that bothers me is that my Nexus 4 is getting quite hot. The "normal" temperature while using it is around 30-40 degrees celsius.
Like this the smartphone feels quite hot!

The bad thing is... it is not yet summer in germany! I am really afraid that it might overheat very fast if it finally gets hot here.
The Last two days were quite sunny and the temperature of my Nexus 4 was rising up to 50 degrees celsius. Wow! I just had to put my device on a table for a few minutes and I could cook eggs on it :) I tought it might explode.

Well that is the reason I created a small free app called "Battery temperature guard". This app monitors your current battery temperature and warns you if it gets to hot. This way you will never ever forget your smartphone frying in the sun ;)

The app is free, but you can also buy the pro version of "Battery temperature guard" to get rid of the small ads.

How to use this app:

Another cool feature: The temperature
history diagram

• Download the Battery Temperature Warning app for free from the play store
• Open the app, click on the upper right preferences button and adjust the warning temperature to your desired temperature. The default value is 40 degrees.
• Thats it! The app will run in the background and constantly checks the temperature of your smartphones or tablets battery.
• If the alarm goes off, just close the app you are using or put the device out of the sun somewhere in the shadows ;)

FAQ:

• But my device automatically shuts down when it reaches 60 degrees?
• Yeah thats right, but 60 degrees is a very high temperature for a battery and will reduce the lifetime of your battery dramatically. So its better to keep the battery temperature at a lower level and not let it get so high.