This Website will be officially moving in the next couple of days. The new website will be located - HERE -. This website will remain up for another week or so and then it will be taken down for good.
On a side note: All my new posts and everything are still below this big blue box. I'll eventually switch it up I think. Also if there's enough interest in it should I offer an alternative payment solutions (paypal, amazon, etc) Let me know via the poll on the right.
Problems, Important
Well due to certain events I will be un-publishing all themes that violate copyrights for right now. Not all my themes are affected however the ones listed below are:
Nike
Air Jordan
Xbox 360
Adidas Blue
Adidas Orange
Old School Nintendo
USC
Texas A&M
Texas Longhorns
This will hopefully only be temporary and they won't be off the market for long. The listed themes will be taken off the market for now until things are worked out. Sorry for the trouble this may cause for anyone who was thinking of downloading them.
I also will be re-publishing the Air Jordan Fonts under a different name since Air Jordan is a copyright so it'll be named something else.
They will still be visible for viewing on here as a demonstration and so people can see them but there will be no access to them until things are worked out. Thanks for your patience.
Feel free to leave comments
Theme Updates
Starting this week the updates to all the themes I've released will begin happening. This will happen for all themes regardless of paid or free due to the cupcake update and new content being skinnable. Please keep an eye out for those updates and after those updates are completed new themes being released will resume once more.
New aHome Theme and more!
Alright as you can see above a new theme is out so enjoy it. Also everyone who uses my themes whether paid or free expect updates to all of them over the next few weeks. This is due to cupcake rolling out (apparently, I still haven't gotten mine yet) which all these themes are compatible with already but also updates coming to aHome in the near future.
Secondly, DxTop now supports aHome themes. So all you DxTop users can rejoice now in the fact you have lots of themes available to you. I will be playing around with how they look in DxTop over the next few days. I'll still release some themes exclusively for DxTop but this does make my life a little easier.
There's lots of things on the way so make sure to keep your eyes open for updates to everything.
Speaking of which, Mystique Chapter2: The Child is finally out on the market. I saw it this morning. If you haven't played chapter 1 yet, get it now, it's probably one of the best games for android and Chapter2 looks just as good if not better.
Also I'm going to ditch the alternate payment methods. With the market gaining more countries with access to paid apps it's not feasible to have it. My paypal account will remain open though for people who need to use it but the links underneath the theme previews will be gone so you'll have to email me. I am still considering using Amazon.com's checkout system as well but that's just a possibility. If anyone has any better suggestions feel free to leave a comment with it.
Busy Busy
As you may have noticed it's been a few days since I posted anything. I have released a new theme, it's the pink one at the top of the main page as well as added new payment options. I might be discontinuing that however as the usefulness hasn't really been there but I will give it a bit more time, still feeling it out. I have a few more themes on the way that will be released shortly for both dxtop and ahome (yes dxtop users I haven't forgot about you).
Still waiting on my Android cupcake update, it's taking forever to get to my phone. AndroidAndMe.com has posted a new trailer to the upcoming Mystique game, Chapter 2: The Child. All I can say is, damn that looks incredible. It reminds me of Silent Hill a lot but more cool since it's playable on our phones. If you like those kinds of games, definitely go check out the new trailer and chances are you'll be grabbing chapter 1 after watching it if you haven't played it.
While on the topic of games, go over to phandroid.com and check out the video of a pre-alpha emulator for our G1 Android phones that looks awesome as well, especially if you like the old school game.
Couple of Themes, Poll
As you may or may not have noticed there's 2 new themes released for aHome. Slick Business (which has gotten a lot of interest, thank you!) and Xbox 360 which I just released today. I wanted to release this theme on the weekend but it wasn't just how I wanted it so it's out today instead.
Also there's a new poll on the right. Just answer yes or no. Yes meaning I should offer other payment options (thru this site) like paypal and/or amazon or something similar. However to cover the costs of this non-market buyers will have a slightly higher price (like $1.20 instead of $0.99) for paid themes. Please keep that in mind when you answer the poll. Unfortunately other payment sites have higher charges especially relating to mailing of products and their updates. Of course if anyone else has suggestions I'm all ears. This is really mostly for people who can't see paid apps yet (international users without paid apps available on the Android Market) but if you do get paid apps and would benefit from a different payment method by all means vote yes.
Cupcake this week, aHome Update
Well according to sources and the fact it's splattered all over the Android websites like AndroidAndMe.com and Phandroid.com it's apparent that US will be getting our cupcake update finally over the next week or so. About damn time I say. I have been waiting for this since the news came out a week or so ago about the rollout starting but ended up only being UK and a tiny bit of the US.
Secondly, mAPPn has updated aHome. Full version users amoung other features now have an RSS widget. Why is this so great? Because now we can have rss feeds on our phone that is intergrated with aHome, also you'll all be able to get this site on RSS and follow the news/theme releases/whatever else that I post every day without having to come here all the time. Yes, that is blatant self-promotion but how could I not mention that.
Android Cupcake News
Well as most dev's have gotten, google has sent out an official email outlining new improvements to the market. Paid apps will soon be available in
* Austria
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Spain
and free apps can now be targeted to:
* Canada
* France
* Ireland
* Italy
* Portugal
* Spain
* Switzerland
and if you're a dev we also now have to add a minimum SDK version to the manifest.xml since 1.5 is rolling out slowly, some people will have it before others (currently UK right now). Phandroid has posted an entire article over this including the actual email (saves me from copy/pasting from my email). They have 'only new' beside paid and free apps listing which I'm guessing me past apps won't show so a bit of advice, make an update for your free/paid app when these markets open up to reach these customers!
AndroidAndMe have a great preview article on 1.5 widgets you should also checkout. The official full list of widgets on release are:
* Analog Clock
* Calendar
* Music Player
* Picture Frame
* and Search
but we all know there will be a bunch on the market asap.
You can check both of these articles out at their respective sites here:
Phandroid Market Article
AndroidAndMe Cupcake Widget Preview
or through the feed links at the bottom of the main page.
USC aHome Theme, Steampunk Icons
Well even though I posted yesterday that I had released both the aHome USC Theme and the DxTop Steampunk icon pack it actually didn't happen till today. Why? Cause I had to tweak a couple of things before I felt it was good for release so sorry for making people wait an extra 12 hours but quality comes first.
This website is almost done, I have to work on a few graphical elements to spruce up the look to how I want it and I'm still organizing a few things near the bottom of the page. I added Cyrket's rss feed to display the newest apps on the market down there as well. I still have yet to figure out what I want to do for the video of the day area, I might just drop that or change it to feature apps/themes/tutorials. I really don't know yet, there's already sites like Driodeo that have a ton of videos.
On the theme front, I still am working on those 2 Dxtop themes I had mentioned I would release on the weekend, I'm a bit behind but they'll be done this week as well as another 1 or 2 aHome themes. I also plan to make a post in the Rants and Reviews section in the next day or two...will it be a rant or a review? No clue yet.
2 Adidas Themes for aHome
Just updated the theme preview thread with large screenshots of the 2 Adidas themes I just released today, enjoy. Next on the list is a free USC theme which I'll be releasing this weekend as well.
DxTop users: I have 2 themes, 1 free and 1 paid, I'm working on and will be releasing this weekend (hopefully, if not this week for sure) so keep an eye out for those.
Incoming Cupcake Update
According to Phandroid.com (you can go to the article via the link at the bottom of the main page) T-Mobile is rolling out the update for the USA and UK owners. While all this is fantastic my main concern is hopefully the updated won't destroy the layout of themes otherwise I'm going to have a LOT of updating. As far as I know it's not suppose to though so I wouldn't worry about it, leave the worrying to me if it actually happens.
Either way the Android update is very much welcomed.
Themes for this weekend
Even though it's only mid-week I usually already know the themes I'm going to be releasing on the weekend. Most people now have kind of guessed that I usually don't release much during the week. I like to take my time and do a good job on things I put out onto the Android market for aHome or DxTop.
This weekend I'll be releasing an Adidas shoe theme and a USC theme for aHome. For DxTop I'm leaning towards converting my Air Jordan theme for aHome for DxTop users. It's been extremely popular with aHome users and lord knows DxTop could use more themes, I just don't know if DxTop users want themes like that. If I get all that done I'll be looking into releasing my Old School Nintendo theme for DxTop as well for free.
Speaking of DxTop, as of this posting I'm still waiting for the update that fixes the little bug with the home screen highlights to be released.
Updates Updates Updates
Alright so after some messing around I have the email subscription option working as well as the rss feeds working. So now you can get updates via your email or rss feed(s) of your choice.
DxTop has been updated as well with performance increases, bug fixes, cupcake widget support which is great. Also picture frame skinning (soon) and BetterCut font packs are now supported which being a theme dev is great news. On the flip side, the icon bubbles have reverted back on the home screens to orange and displaying that under the modified icon highlight files. I believe it's a bug and hopefully it gets fixed fast.
Also on the theme end of things, I've heard back from Better Android. I'll be sending my icons in for them to pack and release for the DxTop themes I've released once I get them organized over the next couple days.
Then there is the Video of the Day box below. Chances are that'll show videos pertaining to Android stuff.
New Website
Well it was about due especially with me making both DxTop and aHome themes that I was going to need a place to post everything and be a bit more organized and so here it is. The slideshow at the top with show previews of already released themes for both DxTop and aHome but due to the size it'll only show a part of a specific theme although full screenshots will be posted on here as well. I will update my Official aHome forum thread when I release new aHome themes but this will be Extreme Themes new home.
Everything will be fully posted in the next few days so if you see some content missing, I just haven't added it yet. The email subscription option isn't running yet either. I'll also have an rss feed to subscribe to and any other options that are possible, suggestions would be great (i.e. different rss feed services etc).
And yes, this is a free template, I like it, eventually I'll make my own at some point but for now I'm using this.