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Sony Smartwatch2 FAQ and Troubleshooting

Sony Smartwatch2 FAQ and Troubleshooting

Sony Smartwatch2 is a wrist watch style device which connects with your Android device and makes you easily access to your data from your wrist. You can view upcoming events in Google calendar, received SMS, tweets, etc. Basics Sony Smartwatch2 has 4 types of applications. Built in Notification Control Widget Some basic functions, such as alarm, stopwatch, timer is built in to Smartwatch2 firmware which can run stand alone, without connection to android device. Notification type app sends notification message / icon from android device to Smartwatch2. Smartwatch2 saves those notification message and notifies user. When android device is disconnected from Smartwatch2, you won’t get new notification, but you can …

Animal Xing Designer color reduction algorithm Part2

Animal Xing Designer color reduction algorithm Part2

I’ve made additional improvements to color reduction in Animal Xing Designer. Original is left as Type A, and added Type B. Slower, but better color optimization. Left top is original image, right top is algorithm I’ve made adjustment day ago. Color at lower right and background color behind legs are lost in detail. In bottom 2 image, which I’ve made improvement this time, you can see better color detail. Unlike normal color reduction, hard thing about color reduction in Animal Crossing is that we have to pick up 15 colors from limited color palette, and do optimization.

Animal Xing Designer color reduction algorithm

Animal Xing Designer color reduction algorithm

Android tool, Animal Xing Designer have been downloaded and used by quiet a number of people, with good feed-backs. However, recently there were some comments where color reduction is not working well. I was thinking of adding different type of color reduction algorithm, but found out there were problem in existing algorithm while reviewing source code. Light colored area had trouble reducing color, where original image as follows; result as follows in v1.31, where image data is mostly gone. Dithering and color reduction is taking place, and color reduction algorithm were not working well in light colored area. I built new algorithm, and now color reduction is working better with v1.32. …

Animal Crossing New Leaf Design BBS

Animal Crossing New Leaf Design BBS

To easily share your original design created with Android App with users in world, Animal Xing Designer, I’ve made Image BBS and added functionality to directly upload design from App to BBS. http://nefastudio.net/axing/pb.php Currently posting can be done only from App. Since this is first time to launch image BBS and linking with App, I’m hoping this works without problem. Hope many people make good use of it.

Android My design tool for Animal Crossing New Leaf, basic operation guide

Android My design tool for Animal Crossing New Leaf, basic operation guide

Tutorial videos under work. I design UI for my app to make it easy for myself, but unfortunately this seems to be unfriendly to other people. Animal Xing Designer tool for Android is also such app, good functionality but hard to understand UI. I don’t think I can improve UI that much by myself, and I also don’t have power to redesign UI, I’ll leave a instruction guide. When you launch app, following screen will be shown. Middle is grid panel for editing design, and left lower corner shown buttons for functions. Buttons from left, Current selected tool / Call tool menu Show / hide color palette, current selected color …

Animal Crossing New Leaf, QR data structure

Animal Crossing New Leaf, QR data structure

Animal Crossing New Leaf is a game for 3DS, and during the play, if you keep on contacting Able Sisters, you will become able to design your own cloth, hat, flag, etc, and also enables sharing with your friends by using QR code. I have created Android app for reading / writing this QR code, with design tool so you can design using your android device. I will leave data structure for QR code I’ve analyzed during development, for somebody who might want. Below is movie for my app for reference. Data is encoded to QR code in binary format, with multiple QRs for some designs, which is a rare …