[Android Themes] onenonlycasper:
Re: request DG or customizing my wallpaper designs

Thanks for feedback, also for being one of the few people who notice and appreciate clean designs in general.... My favorite style of designing and the principal I often live by when working is "K.I.S.S." (keep it simple stupid)... I get so many jobs from clients that want ridiculously cluttered or chaotic designs for logos, banners, flyers, ads, wallpapers, and even icons that they want me to cram way too much into and ultimately end up looking horrible in my opinion, but as long as they like it and of course they pay for the design, I just try to do what they request.

As far as my progress on the actual development of the app I stated initially as the purpose of this thread, I am at a standstill because I lost basically all of my progress over last 2 weeks roughly, when the VPS I set up to host my files on crashed several days ago. Normally I have a backup system in place that continuously syncs my files every hour from the computers I use to develop or design major projects on, but I was forced to work within the virtual system online all because a completely different issue caused my actual laptops I use to do most work on, to basically be shutdown for a few days while I checked my other systems and the network they run desperately on for issues and then had to wipe my main PCs clean then reinstalled the OS and other software and applications from scratch but of course I wasn't able to get back online and running on the backup systems network so that what I had completed on the VPS online could be downloaded to my local network drive and ultimately would have saved me from losing almost 2 weeks of work on a development that I do not normally work on, because I am still kinda new to Android development in general but also have not really done much work on creating apps for android from scratch so its even worse to lose data and files that really seemed to be something I'm not entirely sure if I can even recreate at all. I am a graphic designer first so I don't even use some of the necessary elements of android development at all for my normal work projects. There was definitely a big part of me that knew I should've held off on working on this app until I was back on my normal systems/set up and could keep things backing up to the secondary network drive because every small step I took working in a foreign environment with a system I barely grasped on this level.... There's no doubt some of my progress was just a matter of luck and timing, mixed with a lot of trial and error after hours of reviewing guides and other peoples work just to see if I could piece things together when I was stumped.

Now, I apologize for the very long post but I say all of this because I have been so frustrated by everything that has happened recently that just don't know if I can start over again. First I have a ton if real work to catch up on and other projects to get completed for clients asap so I don't really have the free time to get back into creating this app, second I literally felt like my brain hurt at times when staring at code or reviewing guides tutorials or data from other people to get little things working for me in this apps creation, so I just don't know if I even want to start over and try to do This crap again. So that's everything and it does kinda feel good to get it out and I guess we shall see is all I can say when it comes to completing this app....for now I'm taking a break from android development and apps.

Sent from Tapatalk app using Nexus 7-3G running god knows what ROM I recently flashed out of boredom or to test out just because I'm a serial flasher and addicted to android devices and can't seem to settle on one set up for any of my tablets/phones