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[APP] Grid Clock

This clock is based on Led Clock by David Horn posted on here some time ago. The principle of the clock is minimalism. The left column represents the hous, the next five columns represent minutes and the final column represents groups of five seconds (if you choose the 'show seconds' option). The hours increment upwards, the minutes increment leftwards then upwards and the seconds increment upwards. I have taken David’s original clock idea and bolted on lots of user options purely as an exercise to get up to speed programming for the compact framework.
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Set individual colours for many elements such as hour leds, minute leds, second leds, frame, font and background.
Draw rectangular or round leds
Show / Hide seconds
Show digits on hours, minutes, seconds
Change led size – small, medium, large.
Imaging:
Load image as foreground, the image gets drawn piece by piece like a jigsaw as another led gets added to the clock. Watch your image build up on screen as the hour goes by. Alternatively you can set the image as a background image and the clock gets drawn on top.
Image Folders:
You can also specify a folder of images and set the rotation frequency to minute, hour or day. The current image behaves as above and gets rotated so you can have a new image loaded every day, or hour etc.
I am using GDI to draw the clock but it is heavily optimized. The thread only runs every 5 secs or every 60 secs if you choose not to show seconds. The drawing itself only draws what is absolutely necessary at any time. So if we are not refreshing / painting the form, usually we are only drawing a single led therefore this should be light on resources. As evidence of this, consider the fact that I am not using double buffering anywhere and yet the redrawing is always flicker free and stable.
I wrote this clock as a Touch HD owner but tested it on several of the mobile images. It should run on any Windows Mobile device and on most screen resolutions from version 5 upwards. It currently uses .Net 3.5 but I can port it back to 2.0 if required as all the code is legacy written and I am using no libraries from the newer framework. I’d appreciate any reasonable feedback.
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Surely this should've been posted in the themes, apps and software section?

MOD EDIT
Moved to themes, apps and software forum

oops, sorry about that.

Galaxy Nexus Black wallpaper = Battery saving (experiment result)

This is a direct recreation of an experiment performed by gogol on April of 2010. Although it is well known that a black background uses less power on AMOLED screens, I wanted to establish actual figures for the Galaxy Nexus.
Testing Condition:
- Fresh boot on 4.0.2 yakju Galaxy Nexus
- Wifi OFF
- Mobile network OFF
- GPS OFF
- Bluetooth OFF
- Screen at home screen with default icon placement(no clock widget)
(1) At maximum brightness, screen on for 15 minutes
- Pure black wallpaper will consume about 2% (from 80% down to 78%)
- Galaxy Nexus wavy blue wallpaper will consume about 4% (from 77% down to 73%)
(2) At brightness = 20+%, screen on for 15 minutes
- Pure black wallpaper will consume about 1% (from 72% down to 71%)
- Galaxy Nexus wavy blue wallpaper will consume about 2% (from 69% down to 67%)
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Although no one is going to stare at a wallpaper for 15 minutes straight, over time, it should add up to fairly decent savings with normal use. I really was surprised by the power usage. Despite its size, the screen is pretty energy efficient.

those arent really reliable numbers given the error margins of the experiment (battery reading, ambient temp, etc)
have the screen on for 4 straight hours, and maybe we'll be talking

ccpotato said:
those arent really reliable numbers given the error margins of the experiment (battery reading, ambient temp, etc)
have the screen on for 4 straight hours, and maybe we'll be talking
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I was originally going to make it an hour long but the maximum sleep timer on stock ICS is 10 minutes and I didn't want to sit around tapping on the screen every 8 minutes I'll probably find an app or something and try it again overnight. Although not 100% accurate, it directly reflects previous experiments.

screebl should do the trick...
market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite

bc predz said:
screebl should do the trick...
market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite
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Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.

There was already someone else who tested black vs white in this forum. The results are bit surprising.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366878
Black vs white screens at different levels of brightness.

wonshikee said:
There was already someone else who tested black vs white in this forum. The results are bit surprising.
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Not surprising at all.
1280x720 tiny little LEDs all want their own few µ-amps. Those that are switched on, that is. ^_^
I will try a pure black wallpaper and report back.
EDIT: Made a pure black 1280x720 wallpaper. Save anywhere on your device and "install" by viewing with the gallery app > select options.

[Request] Rorschach Watchface

It would be awesome if someone could create the "delusional" Rorschach watch face for the Moto360, the way it works is you look at the upper right corner for the hour and the lower left corner for the minutes. The upper left and lower right are simply mirror images of the hour and minutes. Here is the site explaining the concept
http://blog.tokyoflash.com/2013/03/rorschach-2-e-paper-watch-update/
For the moto360, it would definitely look better if the background was black and the inkblot white
Anyone know if making this would be possible?

lordscipio said:
It would be awesome if someone could create the "delusional" Rorschach watch face for the Moto360, the way it works is you look at the upper right corner for the hour and the lower left corner for the minutes. The upper left and lower right are simply mirror images of the hour and minutes. Here is the site explaining the concept
http://blog.tokyoflash.com/2013/03/rorschach-2-e-paper-watch-update/
For the moto360, it would definitely look better if the background was black and the inkblot white
Anyone know if making this would be possible?
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Hello, I've coded the app, and tested it, it is fully working and should be released on the play store soon :fingers-crossed:

Awesome! Looks much better than the attempts on facerepo. Just purchased. Thanks!

Actually, could not get it to show up. I rebooted my watch, disconnected/reconnected, but it will not show as an option in watch faces. : /
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After resetting the apps on the watch it was able to show up, however it force closes whenever I try to go into settings (on S5 and moto360). Also, some numbers are a bit hard to read like 53 minutes as they merge together to form a blob that reads 99. Also, 08 minutes shows up as a 0 and a 0 fully filled (basically looks like two zeros). Currently very difficult/impossible to know what the minutes time is due to these merging issues.
Seems like a bit of fine tuning on the display of the numbers will make the app perfect!

[Q] Progress Bar Split using Advanced Parameter

Morning all.
I am trying to make a fancy battery bar widget using 4 progress bars each curved 90 degrees and rotated to make a full circle, and each individual bar only showing a 25% range of the battery level, so bar 1 is 0-24%, bar 2 is 25-49 % etc.
What I'm trying to do now is split the bars into sections depending on the battery level, so when the battery is below 75% but above 50, I want the 3rd section to split into 5 chunks but have the first two bars stay solid... if you get what I mean.
But I've searched and tried to find the Advanced Parameter for progress bar chunks/splits and I cannot find it. The text on the advanced parameter button in Zooper says "...control almost any aspect of this module...", and I'm not bashing, but is this one option not available or have I missed the appropriate keyword from my XDA/Google searches?
Thanks

Wrong thread

@Mokum020
Thanks for the tip I think that's the way to go.
I'll tell you what as well, trying to get the segments lined up with eachother is a PITA!

Mokum020 said:
How about making two progress bars for each section, one solid and one in chunks and show/hide them with the offset parameter at a certain % level:
Solid
Code:
[ox]$#BLEVN#>=75?1000$[/ox]
Chunks
Code:
[ox]$#BLEVN#<75?1000$[/ox]
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Very Smart Solution!!!
P.S. I'm a robot

Ratchet_Guy said:
Very Smart Solution!!!
P.S. I'm a robot
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I thought this was an interesting idea so I built my own version of it, attached. Would like to see the OP's as well if willing to share.
As the OP mentioned getting the segments to line up to the exact pixel/millimeter is easier said than done, but sometimes close enough looks...close enough lol.

[WatchFace] TimrFace for Android Wear

Timr Face for android Wear is a free, minimalistic and simple watch face for designed in line with Google's Material Design.
Seconds are indicated by the smooth, animated scale.
Depending on the set time format, the watch face will display the time in the 12 or 24 hour format.
By long pressing the watch face you can change the color to one of the 11 colors available.
You can change the background color and the scale animation rate in the mobile android wear app.
I need some feedback from you guys, especially from people using this watch face on their Sony Smartwatch
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Nice work, I have it and is very nice.
Some times seconds doesn't appear. i have to turn off the screen (enter dimmed mode), and it works
Just on thing, in dimmed mode seems too poor, but if not it should be a battery drain, so I have no better idea.
Thank you.

Florianisme said:
I need some feedback from you guys, especially from people using this watch face on their Sony Smartwatch
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Hey, thanks for your nice watchface. I love the flat (material) design very much.
Some points I recognized:
- the time (hh:ii) isn't centered, but has an offset to the left. The left margin is twice the size as the right one.
- the animated written seconds (numbers) are tiny
- in case of a notification at the bottom, it overlays the seconds.
Perhaps you can reduce the margin between time and seconds-animation, so that the seconds move to the middle of the screen.
Nice work! Tommy
. Unfortunatelly I cannot link a Screenshot.

That's a nice face!