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[Android Apps and Games] Bilgets:
Do you mind to add a feature like one on the windows phone app? o_O like automatically change the Lockscreen to IOTD...

otherwise, this is a good app :D
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Thanks! I would like to add such a feature, but from what I know it's not in the standard android API (might be in JB?), so it's quite hard to accomplish that. I will check if it is possible with stock JB and then I will most definitely build it in!
[Android Apps and Games] Bilgets:
owh so it is a complicated task to do.. thanks that you wanted to look it up :D
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
I'm going for that 5th star, so here you go!

1.4.2 (mar 10, 2013)

- Added a .nomedia file to each folder Fresco uses to save cached images (so Fresco's images will not show up in your gallery app(s) anymore), you can disable this switch in the settings screen.

- Fixed strange characters in Dutch translations (like é )

- [3.0+] Fixed issue with the picture frame widget showing a faint line on the bottom

- [3.0+] Probably fixed an issue clicking the widget (over time) would not work anymore

APK is available for download in the OP and will be shortly in the market. Have fun with it :)
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
Working well for me. Thanks.

I will need to watch the widget button over the next day or so... (edit) Tapped on the widget today and the app isn't loading. :(

Anyway I updated my review. :thumbup:

PS. Maybe a silly(?) feature-request: the current APOD is a panorama and when resized in the widget it looks awful.

Is there any way you could handle that better in the widget? Maybe make it so if it is an odd aspect ratio picture then we get horizontal scroll-bars in the widget?

Just an idea.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Yeah, I noticed that too. Horizontal scrolling is unsupported in widgets due to home screen switching. I can, however, check for odd aspect ratio's and then crop them in the center, but I don't know if that would help, I'll look into it.

Have you seen today's image? It's awesome and very surreal! :P
[Android Apps and Games] JohnnyEpic:
Any see that new Nasa app which shows their spacecrafts? Wish those photos were in this app to. Keep up the great work dev.

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Thanks, but could you post the app you mean? I have some ideas about adding 'stories' to Fresco (with spacecrafts being one of them :))

Which one, there are three out there at the moment? Or are Opportunity and Spirit from the analog age, whilst Curiosity can access the Interplanetary Internet? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] JohnnyEpic:
Not their photos but real ones.

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html

I believe its the one called 3D Spacecraft by Jet Propulsion. Why haven't they added yours up there?

And... You know which Rover sent those. ;)

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
I'm no longer fetching the latest APOD automatically and have to press the 'search for latest...' button.

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Maybe task killer? You could try to force stop the app and then start it up again, that should 'restore' the automatic downloading, although I don't know why it doesn't auto download anymore for you.

I will soon come with an update in which you can send crashes unattended, so I can get a better view of what's happening in the field.
[Android Apps and Games] JohnnyEpic:
Nvrmind. Delete.
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
PLEASE move that huge SQL database to the storage already! TIA :)
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Please give me 24h...
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Alright, little over 24h, but here you go, a new version is NOW available in OP and will be in a few hours in the play store:

1.4.3 (apr 5, 2013)

- Added option in the settings dialog to move the internal db Fresco uses to the sd (to save up internal storage space)

- Fixed an issue where on some devices Fresco could crash all the time. Please do a clear all data if you encountered this issue after you update to this version.

- Thoroughly went through all crash reports and tried to fix all of them (including random crashes)

- Fixed a whole lot more strange characters in Dutch translations

Direct APK link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11837707/fresco/apks/Fresco_1_4_3.apk

At your service :)
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
Excellent support.

Thank you very much! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
This latest build seems to have eliminated the random crashing but the old issue, where tapping the widget doesn't open the app, has returned (for me).
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
The widget bug was there in 1.4 2 too, I still have that under investigation, although I really don't have a clue as to what it is that is causing this bug :/ stay tuned :)
[Android Apps and Games] Lim Wee Huat:
This a very nice and educational app... Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
You're welcome, hope you still enjoy it.

In the meantime I have been struggling with a problem in the app. On some devices it randomly crashes without any clear indication as to what is wrong. So after a while I tried to get a solution for this problem on stackoverflow.com, here's that post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...teexception-no-such-table-error-in-rare-cases

After about two weeks a solution was offered and I implemented that in the app now, so version 1.4.4 is a fact :)

Here is the changelog:

1.4.4

- Fixed random crashes in alarm manager (app keeps crashing on certain devices)

- Widgets were still not clickable sometimes, tried to fix that (again)

Direct APK link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11837707/fresco/apks/Fresco_1_4_4.apk

App has been uploaded to the play store, will be available in a few hours I guess

As always: at your service, enjoy!
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
If you are issuing random crashes due to an out of memory error, please download version 1.4.5, APK is available in the OP now and in a few hours in the play store :) - ...now where's my beer?
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
d-fader, can you please change the loading behavior so that Fresco doesn't hang while loading the Random image?
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Yay! There is a bug that if you press the random icon twice fast, it'll hang :/ I will remove the progress dialog in the next version and replace it with a small progress bar on the top of the image placeholder, so you won't be bothered with that anymore. It will take some planning and development work, but I'll try to do it asap!

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Hey! Thanks! :)
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
Thank you.

Could you also please add an option to exclude APOD/IOTD for the automatically set wallpaper?
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
Problem: can't download the APOD as of this morning. Tried to clear data, reinitialised the database and uninstalled and reinstalled but the progress stays at 0%
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Seems to work fine here...? I'll fire up an emulator to double check, hold on :)

Edit: Seems to be working in the emu too (I also tried to clear data, but it re-initialized just fine). Could it be something with your internet connectivity?
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
Had the same issue at home and now at work?!?

Edit: Hmmm working fine now - no idea what the issue was. Sorry for the wild goose chase!
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Another minor update is available in the play store (or as direct link in the original post):

Version 1.4.6

- Fixed an issue where downloading images after a reboot would only occur after you started the app at least once

- Improved the random crashes fix (on some devices the crashes still occur, hopefully everything is ok now)

- Improved the speed of downloading new entries

Have fun and the GUI updates are still to be done, it will take some more time, hang on :)
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
So I was on the brink of shooting a big kamehameha to my phone, since the random crashes were still happening on some devices. So I decided to do something totally unethical in my eyes: catch the random exceptions and let the app silently continue its execution. This will eliminate the crashes from showing (though not from happening). In addition I added support for ACRA ( http://acra.ch ), so when a crash occurs (even the catched one mentioned), it will upload the crash data to be reviewed. Hopefully I can crush the bug that way. The crash reporting is enabled by defualt, but can be disabled in the preferences.

So here goes version 1.4.7:

- Improved the random crashes fix and don't let Fresco crash anymore when it occurs.

- Added a setting to send catched crash reports for better inspection of the root cause of the random crash bug (no sensitive/private data will be sent, you can disable this in the settings screen)

Newest apk: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11837707/fresco/apks/Fresco_1_4_7.apk (or in the play store, see op)

PS. I also made a small website for the app, available at http://www.tagpulse.nl/fresco

Have fun!
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
I've been using Fresco for a few months and I like it a lot. One thing would make it perfect: Whenever a new image arrives and I invoke Fresco from the notification bar, if I choose one of the alternative images, the notification stays active. Since when I choose an alternative I clearly don't want the new image, the notification should go away. Thanks for a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Sorry for the late response, but thanks for spotting the bug, I will fix it and you can expect a new release in a day or so :)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Wow! I don't think the response was late at all. Thanks for your attention.

By the way, the Image of the Day (not APOD) hasn't updated since June 27. I checked the site and there are new images since then.

And if I have that image up and choose "Open source page," I get the APOD page for the latest image. Any ideas? I've tried clearing the cache, but it didn't help.

Thanks,

Nathan
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
I'll check that out too :) Not sure what's happening with the IOTD images though, the source of that seems to be unavailable anymore, guess that is because of the new NASA website? I need some more time to check out how I can get that up and running again, so please hold on ;) Thanks for your support!
[Android Apps and Games] WinterEternal:
This app is simply amazing. As if having an extra pair of eyes in every phone with every person on Earth isn't enough, having our telescopes AND the minds of masters behind them quoting along is just a treat.

Thank you so very much for this app!!!

I have a recommendation, please add a QR scan code at the first post to link to app store!

You will ALWAYS have more users if users have easier access!
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Thank you for these nice words, they are much appreciated!

A new version (1.5.0) is now available for direct download here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11837707/fresco/apks/Fresco_1_5_0.apk (should take a few hours before it'll be available in the play store).

Changes:

1.5.0 (july 24, 2013)

- The notification will now correctly be removed when a new new wallpaper has been selected (e.g. when you select an alternative). After selecting the wallpaper, the selection dialog will also automatically be closed.

- Fixed a bug where a CPU of your phone could go up to 100% usage due to the NASA IOTD images not being available (anymore)

- Removed all NASA IOTD images, since NASA changed the method of exposing this data. This will be fixed in the next version (probably somewhere in August), for now only APOD images will be available.

As always: at your service :)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Working just fine now ... acting as expected when choosing an alternative image. Sorry for the delay in reporting ... the first couple of APODs that came through after the update were so good I had to have them. It took a few days before there was one I didn't want. Thanks a million for the quick fix.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
No problem. It seems that, however, the banners are still visible after product purchase. As I can't purchase the products with my account I cannot fully confirm it, but looking through the code it seems that this is teh case and that is quite shameful :( I will check it and fix it asap.

Edit: Panic for nothing, it seems to work after all, guess I have to rub the sleep out of my eyes :)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
It's me again ... having a new problem with Fresco. It hasn't reported a new APOD image to me in a week or so. When I manually go into the app, it says "Retrieving high resolution image" and either sits there for a very long time, tells me "Image not available," or stops responding. It's behaving the same on my Nexus 7 and my ZTE Warp Sequent.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Hi, I'm very sorry, but due to the lapse in federal funding, the website of NASA (including the APOD website) are not available at the moment. This means the app cannot get new data until the the funding continues! Let's hope it won't take too long anymore!
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Of course! I knew the NASA website is down, but somehow I didn't put it together with this. Agreed ... let's hope it returns soon.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
That day is today :) The app works again ;)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
I know. I was very excited this morning when there was a new APOD awaiting. They didn't waste any time getting it going when the shutdown ended.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
I have released a new version, since new images were not downloaded anymore (which had to do with the IOTD archive). I have decided to remove this archive. It's nearly impossible to index it in its current state. I am, however, planning a design overhaul of the app, hopefully my tight time schedule will allow enough time to develop it.

Direct download available in the OP, play store APK has been uploaded to the play store, it will be available in the next few hours. Have fun and as always: at your service :)

Here's the changelog:

1.5.1 (october 23, 2013)

- Fixed a bug in database initialization which could cause spontaneous re-initializations and crashes

- Added a pop-up icon in the action-bar for all devices (devices without HW buttons already had that icon)

- Changed sharing, so you can share the actual image in stead of a link to it

- Increased responsiveness of the app

- Removed the Image of the Day (NASA) archive, due to the change of the website of the NASA, this cannot be kept up-to-date.
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
Fresco is/was a good unique name. Too bad you are eradicating it. ;)

Anyway I'm still a fan of your great app.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
I agree, but the problem is that the name is not really descriptive. If the app would have had 100k downloads it would be different, but for the small user base I think a name describing what the app does is better. I'll give it some more thoughts though. Thanks for your message!
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Is is defunct?

I've noticed I haven't gotten any new pics recently, and when I went to put the app on a new phone I discovered it's gone from Google Play. Has it gone to the big app cemetery in the sky?

Edit: That title was supposed to be Is it defunct?
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Hi walpow,

The answer is: NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

The reason why it isn't working anymore is because of my ISP. I've added SSL support to my domain (tagpulse.nl) and the images are downloaded from that domain (http://www.tagpulse.nl/nasa/.... to be exact). The problem is that they redirect all http traffic to https traffic with a hard 301. I've asked them to turn it off (and eventually they did), but everytime they do that, they have to do it again after the server on which the domain runs reboots.

The solution is simple, I have to change the url of the image source and I will create a new APK a.s.a.p., but it won't be available in the Play Store. Due to alleged copyright infringement claims, my developer account has been suspended. I had created a few apps which had links to publicly available YouTube video's, which were not legally on there appearantly (I did not upload them). I'm pretty (actually very) sad about that, but I can't do anything about it :(.

Alright about Fresco then, I will create a new APK and wil post it here as soon as I can. I'm very sorry you can't download or update it from the Play Store. I hope I can reach someone at Google some day in the future and convince them I'm a decent developer and my acount will be unsuspended :)

Greetings,

Jori
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
It's done, check the first post for more information. Direct link to APK: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11837707/fresco/apks/Fresco_1_5_2.apk

Have fun and as always: at your service! :)
[Android Apps and Games] ullekh99:
Thanks a lot for the app. I searched for other alternate apps but urs is the best. Keep up the good work. Thanks again for the app:thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Thanks for the quick response. I've downloaded the APK and all is well. You are a great developer and Google should not be giving you a hard time.

A question: I've just switched to a new phone. Is there a way to get my favorites back? If I restore the data via Titanium Backup, will that work? Or is there a folder on the SD card I can transfer over?

Thanks,

Nathan
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Thanks, let's hope they will eventually reinstate my developer account :)

Titanium backup probably won't work (not sure though), but what you can do is use the 'Export' and 'Import' buttons on the favorite screen. Click the Export button (the box with an arrow pointing right) and export it e.g. to Dropbox or via Gmail (and send it to yourself). The text of that e-mail (it's base64) can be used to import them on your new phone (mailing to yourself, you should be able to open it on your new phone), just copy the content of the e-mail to the clipboard, click the import button (the box with an arrow pointing left) and paste the base64 string. Then you should have imported your favorites :)

Also thanks to you! :)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Worked like a charm. Thanks again. I did notice, though, that the thumbnails after the import were of the wrong images and very unclear. I have seen this a couple of times before, though I can't remember the circumstances. Hitting each thumbnail to see the full-size images fixes the thumbnails. Not a problem, since I know how to fix it, but I thought I'd let you know.

Also, is there a way to make it remember which cropping app I want to use when setting an old image as wallpaper? It gives me two choices and there's no Always vs One Time Only option. I've seen this behavior recently with other apps - no way to tell it, "Yeah, I really mean it, I want to use this one forever" - so maybe it's an OS weirdness.

All the best,

Nathan
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Yeah, there are two sources of images, thumbs and large ones, the thumbs load faster, so that's why Fresco will show them if you didn't download them already. Don't know why they are different than their bigger counterparts though, I'll take a look at that.

I guess there should be a way to enable the 'Only this time' / 'Always use this' option in the dialog, I'll check that out too :)

Could take a few days though :) I'll be back.
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Once more into the breach

It's me again. Fresco hasn't updated since June 2. A quick visit to the website tells me there's newer stuff available. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Mmmm-):
Yes same here!!
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Looks like we're out of luck. Though they are at least acknowledging new photos, none of the other APOD apps holds a candle to Fresco.
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
I hope d-fader is doing well.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
First of all: I'm sorry.

Second of all: it's working again.

Long story:

Thanks for the messages and thanks [MENTION=1106845]pathologo[/MENTION] : yes, I'm doing well. I just was very busy during the last couple of months and, truth be told, I couldn't find the energy to address this issue. I'm very sorry for that. Everything should be working again now, including the images from June 3 to today. Have fun!

So as always: at your service and again I'm very sorry it took so long. You guys are great!
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
I came here today to report it was magically working again, but I guess it's not magic.

No need to be sorry. You've continually provided exemplary support. Fresco is far, far ahead of all the other Android APOD apps, and we missed it. Very happy to see it back.

A question: Since it's not attached to Play, and we don't have a new version, what did you change to get it working again?
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
The problem occurred due to something wrongly configured on my VPS (which indexes the images from apod). I'm not sure what went wrong, but as the VPS is used for more than just Fresco, I guess something went wrong configuring a different project :) so the app did everything correctly, it was the indexing 'service' that didn't work anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Thanks. Figured it was some other system somewhere between the APOD server and the app, but since I haven't a clue how you work your magic, I appreciate the info.

Lots of fun catching up on the Pluto pics. Between Pluto, Ceres, and the comet mission, it's been a fabulous year for solar system exploration.
[Android Apps and Games] Mmmm-):
Hmmm, Fresco seems to have stopped updating again on my phone. It's stuck on Oct14. Anyone else experiencing the same?
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
Working again.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
Yeah, I posted this message on october 20th, but it was in the wrong thread, oops :)

'Thanks guys, I know about the issue. Not sure what exactly goes wrong, but it's something with the indexing code. I'll try to fix asap, will take a few days I'm afraid. Stay tuned!'

It seems that the problem fixed itself, so maybe there was something wrong with the apod site itself?
[Android Apps and Games] pathologo:
Unfortunately Fresco isn't updating again since 09.01.2016.
[Android Apps and Games] d-fader:
And it should be working again, sorry for the delay people :)
[Android Apps and Games] walpow:
Yup, it's back, and I applaud its return.
[Android Apps and Games] LANDKA:
Which are the best Astronomy apps for Android?
[Android Apps and Games] todonormal:
I am interesting in this app. Thanks.
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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
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[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biswatmak:
Is there a possible method to change default governor like "ondemand" to "conservative"

before flashing the ROM

??? What I mean is can any user change any ROM value in any file to achieve the same so that ROMS which does not have CPU Control ( Like AOSP ) can boot up with conservative governor ???
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side_effect:
AFAIR,in kernel config u need to change this while compiling:

# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_

GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set

CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_

GOV_USERSPACE=y

Or use an init.d script,copy paste this and set permissions

echo "governor-name" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/

cpufreq /scaling_governor
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpaceCaker:
FTFY
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biswatmak:
Look I was looking a more user point of view. Suppose I don't wan't to compile, then can I change the ROM's governor traits ????
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side_effect:
Read carefully.I already gave a method.

edit:-.- quote fail