Skin Widget for Minecraft (formerly known as Minecraft Skin Widget) has surpassed 50,000 installs!
Keep your eyes open, I’m working a new version with a bunch of new features. It’s taking a bit longer than expected to do because of work and home etc. But I’ll hopefully have it released soon.
If you do see this post and want to request any features for future releases just leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do.
Today we hit number 4 in the new free widgets category.
So a few things have happened with Minecraft Skin Widget since my last post.
We’ve past the 25,000 mark and we’re in the Play Store top 100 in 3 countries in our category and in the top 500 for the majority.
I did add some non-intrusive advertising. I didn’t think I’d make any serious money, it was more of an experiment, but the apps pulled enough to pay for the developer license and make a bit of profit.
There was a lot of negative feedback from people not knowing how to use the app and how to access the widget. So I added a quick video. This seems to have helped somewhat. I still get the odd message from users about this.
Completely unintentionally I may have stepped some bounds with Mojang on copyright issues. So I’ve changed the name of the app to “Skin Widget for Minecraft” and I’m in the process of changing the icon. This is my own fault for not checking the branding guidelines and I thank Mojang for giving me a chance to solve these issues.
There’s still a few ideas I want to work on for this app. But my day job is getting in the way.
Well Minecraft Skin Widget broke 10,000 installs today so I’m actually quite chuffed.
When I released it about a week ago I never thought so many people would use it.
It is also in the UK’s top 500 apps list sitting at 272 in its category.
I wanted to display my Minecraft skin on my phone and I thought, “may as well make a widget”. So I did and thought I would share it for anyone else looking to do the same.
A simple widget allowing you to displaying your favorite Minecraft character skins on your Android device.
Just enter the username of the skin you want and the app will build a widget for your homescreen.
Simple as that.
Whats new:
Coming soon:
Help: This is a widget only and there is no launcher icon in your app drawer. Look for the Minecraft Skin Widget in your widget menu.
I started putting together my own computer about a year ago.
Just picked up a Corsair H100i a few days ago and thought this would be a natural time to share.
Specifications:
The H100i is actually quite good. My idle temps sit around the 23 – 25C mark and I’ve never seen it go over 60C under load [link].
One thing I’d like to point out is that it lets out a loud whine sometimes, similar to the whine of an old refrigeration. Corsair claims a fix will be available soon.
Picked up a Nexus 4 a couple weeks ago and bought some protection from Zagg that I’ve used before. It does prevent against scratches but you are left with little dents instead. I also would add that it isn’t any batter than the OEM screen at protecting against smudges and smears.
Some points:
From the Zagg website:
Overall I quite like it. The grippy-ness alone is great, but it is rather expensive at £24.99. I’ll use it for now, but I do find myself considering removing it every once in a while.
There’s this really great show on Cartoon Network called Adventure Time.
It’s one of those cartoons that is seemingly aimed at older kids.
My SO and I love it so much we themed our Halloween costumes Adventure Time style.
The Finn hat was made by Lisa using this awesome Finn Hat Template.
WATCH IT NOW!
If you are adding a TabWidget to your app and using TabActivity you can easily change the colours by using the following code:
@Override public void onTabChanged(String arg0) { TabHost tabHost = getTabHost(); //reset for unselected
for(int i=0;i<tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();i++) { tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i) .setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.my_background); ((TextView) tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).findViewById(android.R.id.title)) .setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_colour)); } //selected
tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(tabHost.getCurrentTab()) .setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_highlight_colour)); ((TextView) tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(tabHost.getCurrentTab()) .findViewById(android.R.id.title)) .setTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.black)); }
Don’t forget to register you TabChangeListener:
getTabHost().setOnTabChangedListener(this);