Below you’ll find a small, yet growing list of my published apps.
dLyteFal Watch Faces
I love watches. My favorites are unique, creative, and colorful watches. Ones that really pop and defy the status quo. I like to match watches up with my outfits and mood for a day. I took that love of watches and channeled it into watch faces made for Wear OS devices. These will carry over my love of traditional watch making, as well as the creativity I can explore with a digital medium. I look forward to making tons of these for people to enjoy. My first, dLyteFall 001 – “Hour Pointer” will be available soon. It takes a creative approach to time telling. While still pointing to the time on an analog face, it does so with a circular hour and minute hand with either a triangle or bar pointer. The hour hand has a short, rounded triangle, and the minute hand is a precise bar that extends past the edge of the display. The seconds hand is a diamond, stretched over the circular hour marker to show the passage of time with a sweeping action. the ambient mode takes it down to the bare bones, with a triangle featuring the arced edge of the original hour hand and a floating bar for the minutes. It’s been tested to make sure burn in is highly unlikely.
FunShine Weather
I had an idea for a new design style. Something in the same vein as skeuomorphism or neuomorphism, but not so focused on tangible shapes. It’s more based on our phones, actually, imagining them in an AR or post-phone world. If the desktop was the visual metaphor that carried us from office spaces and desk tops to computing, then what would be the visual metaphor that carries us from smartphones and tablets to augmented reality interfaces? The best way to describe it is, what if physical holograms projected off your screen for information, with touch-sensitive items still on the glass? I took that design language and created the FunShine Design Library (GitHub Link). From there, I needed something to implement it, and I had been wanting to make a weather app for a while, so I made FunShine (GitHub Link). I decided to make something that uses coarse location and doesn’t store it to try to enhance privacy, and features a simple one screen forecast design. It gave me a chance to play with new technologies and create an app from scratch that features DataStore, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Accompanist, and Hilt. I’m also currently adapting the FunShine Design Library, based in JetPack Compose and Material 3 to work for the Wear OS versions of these libraries, for Wear OS watch faces, apps, and tiles. Exploring new technologies was as rewarding as the final project, and I hope you like it!
Tippette
Tippette is a simple tip calculator, but it’s also more than that. Tippette makes tipping extremely simple. All you need is your total, who’s splitting the bill, and answer how the service was. No percentage, no figuring anything out. Just a simple total. Tippette is free, and it’ll make you a better customer. Check it out!
Ticky-Tacky-Toey
A classic take on a classic game, offering the same two-player, offline, basic experience you remember from Tic Tac Toe. No gimmicks, no online play. Just a child and parent friendly game.