I'm a creative

Considering myself as a creative never stopped me from trying to create, not only in the digital world, whatever could come in my mind.
2 years ago I designed a lamp completely made of wood, except from the bulb for sure, as a birthday gift. The idea came in my mind one night when I couldn't fall asleep.
Often happens that I could not sleep because my brain decide to work out on the strangest things.
That night I dreamed of that lamp and the morning after I went buying some wood to cut and sharpen as I imagined the night before. After a week of really hard work the idea came to life and it was awful.
It was good considering that it was my first hand-made job ever starting, not even, from scratch. It was crap because it was too fragile to firmly stand without even broke up.
After that I stopped thinking on real works and started thinking more on digital works.
Some of mine digital works requested me too much time that I couldn't even bear, so it wasn't possible to complete them.
After a year, my mind came out again with a wood-made lamp. That time I thought more between the pure idea and the real works. I designed it, I talked with somebody with more engineering skills that me (my father) and then, after only 4 hours of works, my lamp was completed. It could stand still and it's not as fragile as the first one!
Right now, my creation is in my girlfriend's bedroom and I really love to see that it's still there.
In the meanwhile I had a lot of ideas, some of them inspired from the world surrounding me. One day, for sure, I will try to make a sun-powered helicopter just to really understand how hard it could be to create something that could win the gravity force but mostly just because I want to understand how an engine could be made.
Before the helicopter experiment, what I really love to do is filming some sort of movie. Well, not an entire 90 minutes one, something very short. Probably something based upon good stories I read in Stephen King's novels book.
I don't want to be the next Spielberg or Tarantino (it's not my work, at all or probably bot yet) but I just want to try the feelings and the sensation of creating something that could create the same emotion in somebody else.
I'm not just a creative, I'm quite curious. Curious about everything!

Older and newer projects

Last days I talked a lot about my new ideas. I mostly talked about them.
A colleague of mine also told me that the 'train alarm' one could be a bit useless, but it was funny to know that some colleagues read my posts!
When you start thinking on something new, could happen you lose focus on what you previously did. That's why today I decided to update a bit my first (and the only one published) project. I decided to improve it, because I know there is still a lot of stuff to learn and I think it could really be a sandbox for optimization and best-practices as well.
One of the first improvement were the UI. I removed the ugly gray background to the picture and then I added some nice mirror-reflected image effect. This, in some way unfortunately, mean that my application is crashing more often because of memory leaks. I'm sure the problem was already there but I needed to discover it. I tried to release a newer and better version but I suddenly noticed that I still have a lot of stuff.
Good for me, I really love to learn brand new techniques and I really love to learn Android programming.  

More info on GBikr

Probably 'GBikr' wouldn't be the right name for my new Android project because, in my mind, could be something useful not only to motor-bikers but also for car drivers or "classical" bikers as well.
It will help people to track their run around the world by using integrated GPS, time elapsed, gyroscope data and any other kind of telemetric data.
Any suggestion is welcome for improvement and additional feature.

A new project

While discussing with a friend about my first Android app, he gave me a great idea about another app that will be called 'GBikr'.
The name could give some hints, but the only thing I'm sure right now is that would be a really hard work.

Backgr just released

It's about a week that 'Backgr' has been released.
In this week a lot of updates and improvement has been added (such as an improved UI responsiveness, reduced memory leaks and improved general performance).
There is still a lot of work to do, I'm sure of it, but will be wonderful to hear ideas and improvement from end users like you.