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Winter Forest 3D Live Wallpaper

2013-09-19T12:36:00.000+01:00

Winter Forest Free Live Wallpaper in true 3D
Enjoy our completly free live wallpaper featuring a great and peaceful winter scenery.

This version features a beautiful winter scene with many options to customize (toggle):

- Snow falling;
- Wind (falling snow with wind);
- Camera/Screen frost;
- Winter cabin;
- Wandering wolves;
- Sun flare;
- Camera Settings (support for Samsung Galaxy Touchwiz UI);
- Double tap to open settings menu;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

Planets 3D Live Wallpaper

2013-05-22T16:46:00.001+01:00

Relax and enjoy a beatiful 3D live wallpaper with almost every Planet our Solar System!

Full version features beautiful 3D Planets with option to customize(toggle) the following:

✔ 6 planets to choose from (Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto);
✔ Different planet speed rotation;
✔ 5 different background nebulas to choose from;
✔ Background stars;
✔ Sun effect (sun flare);
✔ Emulated swipe for touchwiz and sense users;
✔ Double tap to open settings menu;
✔ Limit live wallpaper to 30 fps;
✔ APP2SD support: You will need to set the live wallpaper again if you restart your device (Android limitation);

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

Valentine's Day Live Wallpaper

2013-01-17T14:39:00.000+00:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

A beautiful live wallpaper just in time for Valentine's Day! but this time in true 3D. Not a movie, fully supports home screen switching and landscape mode!

Full version features:

✔ Several background images : Hearts, flowers, red roses, teddy bear and a heart shaped chocolate box;
✔ Enable/Disable falling particles;
✔ Different types of particles : Colored hearts, stars, flowers and many more;
✔ Rotate particles;
✔ Customizable title text; (default: Happy Valentine's Day)
✔ Dozens of features to combine creating a unique valentines live wallpaper;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

How to use: Home->Press Menu->Wallpapers->LiveWallpapers

Please comment and rate 5 stars ★★★★★ if you like it!

Lightning Star Live Wallpaper

2012-12-05T13:56:00.001+00:00

Lightning star Live Wallpaper in true 3D.

Full version features a beautiful lightning star with the options to customize the following:

✔ Ground color;
✔ Shape color;
✔ Shape sharpness;
✔ Shape thickness;
✔ Star Motion;
✔ Electric noise;
✔ Star rotation;
✔ Limit LWP to 30fps to reduce battery consuption;
✔ Option to change camera speed and movement;
✔ Double tap anywhere no the screen to open LWP settings menu;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

How to use: Home->Press Menu->Wallpapers->LiveWallpapers

Snow Live Wallpaper

2012-11-25T19:19:00.000+00:00

Relax and enjoy this peaceful and beautiful winter scene in true 3D.

Full version features day and night scene with many options to customize(toggle):

- Day/Night settings (manual or user defined);
- Snow falling;
- Ice fog;
- Option to change camera speed;
- Limit live wallpaper to 30 fps;
- Double tap to open settings menu;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

Click here to download

Halloween Live Wallpaper

2012-10-30T16:50:00.000+00:00

Welcome to Halloween! Enjoy a beautiful live wallpaper on this holiday in true 3D.

Halloween Live Wallpaper in 3D

Full version features a spooky house with many options to customize(toggle):

- Exploding jack O'Lantern (on touch);
- Falling pumpkins from the roof;
- Flying bats;
- Bats patrolling;
- Storm light;
- Background thunderstorm;
- Spooky trees;
- Background fog;
- Option to change camera speed;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

Ocean Beach Live Wallpaper

2012-10-16T14:34:00.006+01:00

Welcome to paradise! Relax and enjoy this beautiful ocean beach view in true 3D.

Full version features a beautiful ocean with realistic water effects and with the options to customize(toggle) the following:

✔ Stranded boat on the beach;
✔ Wooden boat floating in the water;
✔ Seagulls flying;
✔ More palmtrees on the beach;
✔ Wooden dock;
✔ Background fog;
✔ Floating barrel;
✔ Floating crate;
✔ Background rocks;
✔ Option to change camera speed;

Works great with phones, tablets, or any device that supports live wallpapers.

City Live Wallpaper

2012-05-01T20:58:00.000+01:00

NpSoft released a new version of City live wallpaper.

* Full version features:

✔ Dark House Theme;

✔ Green City Theme;

✔ Disable themes and choose a background color;

✔ Enable/Disable snow particles;

✔ Choose between snowflake and mixed particles;

✔ Adjust number of particles spawned;

✔ Choose particle color;

Available features in Dark House Theme (full version):
✔ Animated ghosts or flying witch on screen touch;
✔ Background flying bats;
✔ Spider, window, and background fog animations;

Available features in Green City (full version):
✔ Animated fireflies;

Market link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nps.livewallpaper.citylivewallpaper

Free Version

Paid Version

Valentine's Heart HD Live Wallpaper

2012-02-07T14:36:00.003+00:00

Valentine’s Heart Live Wallpaper: Why wait for Valentine’s Day?

A beautiful live wallpaper just in time for Valentine’s Day! Not a movie, fully supports home screen switching and landscape mode!

Features:
✔ Valentine’s Heart Theme;
✔ Disable theme and choose background color;
✔ Enable/Disable falling hearts;
✔ Choose between glass pink hearts, red normal hearts, or watch them both falling like rain;
✔ Ajust number of hearts spawned;
✔ Touch the screen for a beautiful explosion of pink hearts;

How to use: Home->Press Menu->Wallpapers->LiveWallpapers

Paid Version

Free Version

City Live Wallpaper

2012-01-25T18:27:00.000+00:00

City Live Wallpaper: beautiful cities on your home screen!

City live wallpaper features beautiful glowing particles over green and dark city.Full support for landscape mode and home screen switching!

* Features:
✔ Dark City Theme;
✔ Green City Theme;
✔ Background Colors;
✔ Enable/Disable Particles;
✔ Snowflake and Mixed Particles;
✔ Number of particles spawned;
✔ Particle color;

Please comment if you like it!

Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nps.livewallpaper.citylivewallpaper

City Live Wallpaper is available for Android devices running Android 2.1 or greater!

Free Version

Paid Version

[NEW VERSION] Bluphys - Physics Game (free)

2011-10-03T19:24:00.002+01:00

Hi guys,

New version of Bluphys - Physics Game.

Get it while it's free :)

New features:
20 more levels;
More enemies;
New objects to interact;

Next version will have ~~openfeint~~ scoreloop support

Bluphys - Physics Game

2011-09-21T12:20:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

My friend just released his first app on Android Market.
It's a very simple game that he made in his spare time.

Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nps.game.bluphys

Screen shots

QRcode

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks.

Earth Hour 2011

2011-03-26T18:34:00.001+00:00

At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour.

This Earth Hour we want you to go beyond the hour, so after the lights go back on think about what else you can do to make a difference.
Together our actions add up.

Android Development

2011-03-24T15:22:00.001+00:00

I've been working on my first Android game for a few months now (it's taking longer than I expected) and since the the main purpose of this blog was Android development, after today I'm going to publish some tutorials explaining how everyone can develop simple games for Android.

Before starting with the basics, we need to:

Download and configue Eclipse
Download and install Android SDK

Finish those 2 steps before reading any further.

Now, let's install and configure the ADT plugin.

The Android Development Tools (ADT) is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that extends the capabilities of Eclipse to let you quickly set up new Android projects, create an application UI, add components based on the Android Framework API, debug your applications using the Android SDK tools, and even export signed (or unsigned) .apk files in order to distribute your application.

We need this :)

Download and install the ADT Plugin:

Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New Software....

Click Add, in the top-right corner.

In the Add Repository dialog that appears, enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name and the following URL for the Location:

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

Note: If you have trouble acquiring the plugin, try using "http" in the Location URL, instead of "https" (https is preferred for security reasons).

Click OK.

In the Available Software dialog, select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and click Next.

In the next window, you'll see a list of the tools to be downloaded. Click Next.

Read and accept the license agreements, then click Finish.

When the installation completes, restart Eclipse.

Now, all that's left is to configure the ADT Plugin:

Select Window > Preferences

Select Android from the left panel.

For the SDK Location in the main panel, click Browse... and locate your downloaded SDK directory.

Click Apply, then OK.

That's it :)

How to read, rotate and save images with Graphics2D

2011-01-13T10:56:00.003+00:00

My previous post "Rotate and translate images with AffineTransform" rotates and translates any buffered image, however I found out that using AffineTransform isn't always the best solution. I've encountered several problems rotating images bigger than 2000px and because of that, another solution was needed to resolve my problem.

Here's a little example that reads and rotates an image 90 degrees.

private String rotateImage(String pathToImage) {

BufferedImage image = null;
String tempFileName = null;

try {
   File f = new File(pathToImage);

   if (f.exists()) {

     image = ImageIO.read(f);

     Image rotatedImage = new BufferedImage(image.getHeight(),
                      image.getWidth(),image.getType());

     Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) rotatedImage.getGraphics();

     g2d.rotate(Math.toRadians(90.0));

     g2d.drawImage(image, 0, -rotatedImage.getWidth(null), null);
     g2d.dispose();

     //Random name
     String timeStampName = UUID.randomUUID().
                           toString().substring(1, 8);

     //Save image to java.io.tmpdir
     tempFileName = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") +
                    timeStampName + ".jpg";


     ImageIO.write((BufferedImage) rotatedImage, "jpg",
                                    new File(tempFileName));


   }

} catch (Exception e) {
  //TODO: Do something here
}

return tempFileName;

}

Rotate and translate images with AffineTransform

2010-12-22T17:56:00.001+00:00

Staying on the same subject as my previous posts, the next example will help you rotate and translate any BufferedImage.

public BufferedImage rotateImage(BufferedImage rotateImage) {
AffineTransformOp op = null;

try {

   AffineTransform tx = new AffineTransform();

   //Rotate 90º
   tx.rotate(Math.toRadians(90), rotateImage.getWidth()
              / 2.0, rotateImage.getHeight() / 2.0);

   AffineTransform translationTransform;
   translationTransform = findTranslation(tx, rotateImage);

   tx.preConcatenate(translationTransform);

   op = new AffineTransformOp(tx, AffineTransformOp.TYPE_BILINEAR);

   } catch (Exception e) {
      //Do something here
   }

   return op.filter(rotateImage, null);
}

The function that finds the Translation:

private AffineTransform findTranslation(AffineTransform at, BufferedImage bi) {
   Point2D p2din, p2dout;

   p2din = new Point2D.Double(0.0, 0.0);
   p2dout = at.transform(p2din, null);
   double ytrans = p2dout.getY();

   p2din = new Point2D.Double(0, bi.getHeight());
   p2dout = at.transform(p2din, null);
   double xtrans = p2dout.getX();

   AffineTransform tat = new AffineTransform();
   tat.translate(-xtrans, -ytrans);

   return tat;
}

And finally ... import this:

import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

All done :)

How to convert images

2010-12-16T16:18:00.002+00:00

javax.imageio.ImageIO let's you convert and save images from one format into another.It works using plug-in modules that handle various formats, including gif, png, bmp, jpg and others. We can use getWriterFormatNames() to find out all supported types.

String[] types = ImageIO.getWriterFormatNames();

  for (String name: types){
    System.out.println(name);
  }

Next, let's load our image into a BufferedImage which is a subclass of Image class:

File inputFile = new File("1.bmp");

  BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(inputFile);

Finally convert the image:

File outputFile = new File("1.jpg");

  ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", outputFile);

In this example, the image file bmp was converted into a jpg image file.

Here's the complete source code. Enjoy.

private void convertBmpToJpg(File inputFile){
   BufferedImage image = null;

   try{
      //Read bmp image
      image = ImageIO.read(inputFile);

      File outputFile = new File("1.jpg");
      //Convert bmp to jpg
      ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", outputFile);

   }catch(Exception e){
    //Do something here
   }

}

Don't forget to include this:

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

How to resize Buffered Images

2010-12-15T10:43:00.000+00:00

When we need to resize or scale images in Java, the Java2D Team has been encouraging developers to move away from Image.getScaledInstance() to more updated APIs. This is exactly what I tried to do. So, if you are in need of a fairly good function that resizes images, look no further :)

private BufferedImage resizedImage(BufferedImage oriImage) {

    int type = oriImage.getType() == 0
            ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB : oriImage.getType();

    BufferedImage scaledImage = new BufferedImage((int) scaleWidth,
            (int) scaleHeight, type);

    // Paint scaled version of image to new image

    Graphics2D graphics2D = scaledImage.createGraphics();
    graphics2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
            RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);

    graphics2D.drawImage(oriImage, 0, 0, (int) scaleWidth,
            (int) scaleHeight, null);

    // Clean up
    graphics2D.dispose();

//Return scaled image
 return scaledImage;

}

Aside note: Some of my co-workers asked me about AffineTransform.scale() when performing scaled functions. Well, there is nothing wrong in using AffineTransform.Here's an example:

 AffineTransform xform = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(2, 2);
 graphics2D.drawImage(img, xform, null);

But in a majority of cases, there is a better approach. Simply use the scaling variant of Graphics.drawImage()

 graphics2D.drawImage(oriImage, 0, 0, oriImage.getWidth()*2,
            oriImage.getHeight()*2, null);

Reading a file into a Byte Array

2010-12-10T15:09:00.006+00:00

To read a file (image file) into a Byte Array all we need to is copy the next function into your source code.

I tweaked it to fit my needs, however it is not entirely mine. I found it by goggling a while ago (don't remember when) and most of the credits will have to go to the creator (sorry... don't know who you are either, because the page where I found this function didn't have anything regarding the creator).

public byte[] readBytes(String pathToImage) {
 int read = 0;
 int numRead = 0;
 byte[] filebytes = null;

 try {
  File file = new File(pathToImage);

  if (file.exists()) {

   int size = (int) file.length();  //File length

   if (size > Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
    System.out.println("File too big !!!");
    return null;
   }

   filebytes = new byte[size];

   DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));

   while (read < filebytes.length
     && (numRead = dis.read(filebytes, read, filebytes.length - read)) >= 0) {
    read = read + numRead;
   }

   dis.close();

   if (read < filebytes.length) {
    System.out.println("Error reading file: " + file.getName());
   }

  }
  file = null;

 } catch (Exception e) {
  //Do something here
 }

 return filebytes;
}

Usage:

//Call function
byte[] imageFile = readBytes("c:\image.jpg");

Don't forget to include this:

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

and that's it.

So... what's missing ?

Give credits ... done
Function that reads image files into byte array ...done

Need help with something else? You know what to do ;)

Good luck.

JComboBox Text Alignment

2010-12-07T18:07:00.003+00:00

Today someone asked me how can we make the text in a JComboBox align to the right instead of the left? Here's your answer :)

DefaultListCellRenderer dlcr = new DefaultListCellRenderer();
 //DefaultListCellRenderer.LEFT;
 //DefaultListCellRenderer.CENTER;
 //DefaultListCellRenderer.RIGHT;
 dlcr.setHorizontalAlignment(DefaultListCellRenderer.RIGHT);
 jComboBox1.setRenderer(dlcr);

Import this,

import javax.swing.DefaultListCellRenderer;

and your done.

How to set an Application Icon in Swing

2010-12-06T17:56:00.005+00:00

To set an application icon simply paste this code in you application:

InputStream icon = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("MyIcon.gif");
if (icon != null) {
   BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(icon);
   setIconImage(image);
}

Swing components, such as labels and buttons can be decorated with an icon by using the Icon interface: IconImage.

One statement creates the image icon and the other includes the image in the label:

File f = new File("C:\\Image.jpg");

if (f.exists()) {
   BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(f);
   Icon imageicon = new ImageIcon(image);
   jLabel1.setIcon(imageicon); //Includes the icon
}

Don't forget that you need to include this libraries:

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

Need help on something else related ? Ask away ;)

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

2010-12-02T13:02:00.006+00:00

This may be old news, but apparently Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X.
“We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle’s senior vice president of Development. Personally I'm more eager to see how Oracle, Apple and the JAVA community will handle the issue of Apple's use of private API in their JAVA development.

Let's just hope that Apple's implementation doesn't end up like Microsoft's :(

For more information on JAVA and on the subject, visit:

Working with JTables

2010-11-26T18:24:00.015+00:00

With JTables you can display tables of data, allowing the user to edit the data. Fallow this example if you want to learn how to fill a specific position in a JTable.

Create a new JDialog Form.
Drag and drop the JTable swing component into the JDialog Form. You should have something like this,

Next, change from Design View to Source View and paste the following source-code inside the constructor (after InitComponents),

jTable1.setValueAt("0,0 position", 0, 0);
jTable1.setValueAt("1,0 position", 1, 0);
jTable1.setValueAt("2,0 position", 2, 0);
jTable1.setValueAt("3,0 position", 3, 0);

jTable1.setValueAt("1,2 position", 1, 2);
jTable1.setValueAt("1,3 position", 1, 3);

Each line fills the first position of the table. Very simple :) Now, let's complicate a little more by changing the header font to bold. First, let's find out JTable's font by doing this,

Font font = jTable1.getTableHeader().getFont();

And now, change the font to bold,

jTable1.getTableHeader().setFont(font.deriveFont(Font.BOLD));

Resizing the column header you ask ... no problem, simply do this,

TableColumn column = null;
column = jTable1.getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
column.setPreferredWidth(140);

Run your file (Shift+F6), and you should have something like this,

Want to know more ? Read How to Use Tables.

Need help with something related ? Ask away :)

Image inside a Scroll Pane

2010-11-16T14:58:00.019+00:00

Today I'm going to show you how you can place an image inside Scroll Pane.

Create new JDialog Form,

Drag and drop the Scroll Pane component into the JDialog Form and do the same with the JLabel (place it inside the Scoll Pane). You should have something like this,

Place this code inside the constructor (right after initComponents),

try {

   this.setResizable(false); //Dialog not resizable by the user
   this.setLocationRelativeTo(null); //Center form

   File f = new File("C:\\Image.jpg");

   if (f.exists()) {
      BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(f);

      Icon imageicon = new ImageIcon(image);

      jLabel1.setText(null); //Text this component will display
      jLabel1.setIcon(imageicon); //Image that this component will display
   }


} catch (Exception e) {
   //Do something here
}

Import this to your project,

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

Run file (Shift+F6), and you should have something like this,

And that's it.I hope that this will be a help to people. Enjoy.

How to sign JAR files

2010-11-11T15:19:00.005+00:00

Since JAR files need to be downloaded as part of a Java applet you should digitally sign them. Before we can start make sure you have Java SDK keytool and jarsigner in your path. You can find these tools in Java SDK bin directory.

Create a new key,

keytool -genkey -keystore myKeystore -alias myself

When asked, fill the information regarding the new key name, password, etc. This procedure creates myKeystore on you disk.

Create a self signed certificate,

keytool -selfcert -alias myself -keystore myKeystore

List the contents of the keystore (not mandatory),

keytool -list -keystore myKeystore

        Keystore type: jks
        Keystore provider: SUN

        Your keystore contains 1 entry:
        myself, Fri Nov 12 19:29:32 PST 2010, keyEntry,
        Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
        C2:E9:BF:F9:D3:DF:4C:8F:3C:5F:22:9E:AF:0B:42:9D

Repeat these last step to sign all your JAR files,

jarsigner -keystore myKeystore test.jar myself