Battery Live Wallpaper

As I mentioned in my last report I have a new app called “Battery Live Wallpaper” in the Android market. It’s a live wallpaper that indicates the battery status of the phone by either changing the saturation of the background image or its color. A custom image from the SD Card or the gallery can be selected as the source background image.

Currently the color gradient is predefined. Green indicates a completely charged battery, yellow means there are about 20% left and red stands for an empty battery. In the future I plan to allow customized color gradients.

When I developed the Battery Live Wallpaper I expected similar download rates as for the GPS Widget. But currently the rates are much lower. I try to optimze this in the next weeks by posting on some forums and blogs about it. I’m curious how this will improve download rates. If you know some good places to promote an app/wallpaper, please let me know by leaving a comment.

In the market I have two versions of the wallpaper. One free and a paid version. In the free version the option to select a custom image is locked but can be unlocked with Tapjoy.

You can download the free version here and the paid version here.

Another new App: Keyshaker

Today I developed and published a new app called Keyshaker. Originally Keyshaker was developed by Josef Schuh for the iPhone and I got his kind permission to make a clone for Android. Thanks for that!

What is Keyshaker about? The app simply creates a highly secure random key for you while shaking your phone. It uses the accelerometer data of your device as the seed for the random number generator. As a result it is almost impossible to generate the same key twice.

Keyshaker offers the possibility to define the key length (up to 100 characters) and there is also an option to select which charactersets should be used to generate the key (upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers and symbols).

You can download the Keyshaker here.