For some reason, I woke up this morning and had the urge to pick up my Nintendo DS and play Nintendogs. It then dawned on me that the live wallpaper capability that Android had would be an awesome way to play with a virtual pet.
The live wallpaper could just be used to watch your pet and perform simple interactions like calling the pet to come over. I'm not saying that the live wallpaper would have to be a full featured game, but possibly joined with another app that has more functionality.
Would something like this be possible? I would be worried about the battery drain that this would cause, but if it's executed properly, I may just suck it up and charge my phone twice a day.
very possible!
I think there are a lot of live wallpaper that offer this kind of feature. But so far, the best graphic and feature would be Panda Live Wallpaper by Dutadev. Sorry I can't post link. Go search yourself.
You're welcome :good:
Does anyone else experience on their TF an obvious slow down in overall performance when using a live wallpaper? The only time I don't experience the lag is when I am in an already third-party application BUT when I use the homescreen controls like settings and app switching...that lags. Stock browser performance is worse too.
It seems that the only live wallpapers that don't cause any obvious slow down are the ASUS offered ice cube in water and halo spiral.
Any ideas as to why?
I have downloaded live wallpapers that were specifically made for HC including the GT's for Touchwiz (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169061) and others on the market and they just slow everything down.
Well, not many are actually optimized for tablets. But beyond that, you have to remember it is rendering something at 1280x800 continuously, besides the launcher. So it will eat away at some performance no matter what.
The only one I've found that doesn't have much performance decrease is Light Grid. That one runs pretty great on my TF without slowing things down much. I have it set to cycle large black, gray, and white squares.
Makes sense, and thanks about light grid, I will try that out!
I tried the androidify live wallpaper, and although it is kind of lame, it works great too.
I use my beach hd no lag for me
don't forget to bring a towel!
zillah1985 said:
Does anyone else experience on their TF an obvious slow down in overall performance when using a live wallpaper? The only time I don't experience the lag is when I am in an already third-party application BUT when I use the homescreen controls like settings and app switching...that lags. Stock browser performance is worse too.
It seems that the only live wallpapers that don't cause any obvious slow down are the ASUS offered ice cube in water and halo spiral.
Any ideas as to why?
I have downloaded live wallpapers that were specifically made for HC including the GT's for Touchwiz (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169061) and others on the market and they just slow everything down.
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The ones that were updated are the featured LWP.. Ive collected 148 in the past 5 months with maybe 10 of those that cause lag.
SwampWater is my favorite. I emailed the developer who just got a tablet and found interest in developing again ...I emailed thanking him and saying its awesome looking. He recently added colors and more bugs.
SwampWater
Text clock Pro
Symphony of colors
Stars pro
Seeds of life (sperm) lol
Rolling Cat ($2.99) Nothing special i just wanted the cat
Prismatic
Rays of light
Pretty wallpapers (uses 2 layers to choose from).2 Animations and 1 color
PolarClock Live wallpaper
Particle storm
Nightfall Live wallpaper (payed)
Photile Pro
Light Grid Pro (one of the best IMO)
Light Grid Holiday Theme
Nexus Revamped Pro
Moon Phase (free or Payed)
Jump gate (payed)
IBM Watson Avatar Pro (the one that has scrolling words in the preview pic)
The ones I listed are 1$ and some are free or have a trial version
Anything from developer XLLUSION, JASON ALLEN and KITTEHFACE SOFTWARE
The only one from Jason Allen that doesnt work is a Panda sitting in a cup (to new he hasn't upgraded the code yet).
The Bamboo and Panda does work perfectly .
There ares to many to list, those are the ones that work perfectly.. Your best bet is explore the developers other LWP apps. if 1 works, he has most likely updated the rest.
Most the LWP on the list have multiple that work on Tablets , for example Rays of Light. If you select the developer other apps, his other LWP appear I did not not add to the list. From Rays of light you could get 5 or 6 more that work.. Im very picky on live wallpapers. I dont buy just anything..
It's been a rollercoaster of a ride but it's here: The Orbitals Live Wallpaper.
Orbitals LWP is the second spin-off from my original Target Live Wallpaper app.
Orbitals introduces a windows 8 style loading bubbles along with standard and knotted orbits (inspired by the Trefoil knot).
The color schemes are mostly tech/oss inspired and include Ubuntu, XDA, Slashdot and more.
The color scheme, trail length and speed of the orbitals will vary randomly and changed after every touch with a cool spin-in-and-out transition.
Let me know what you thought out even better let every one know by rating in the Google Play Store or donating.
So get cracking and check out the video, the source code and the app itself in the market (or have a look at my other work).
Thanks all.
I haven't forgotten
Hey all,
Just touching base to say I haven't forgotten you... but i have been very distracted
I got a bit distracted by the Ubuntu App Showdown, but I'm back onto Android now.
I've made some progress here with a spin out animation added. This week hopefully I'll get around to a "stop at 12" animation where the circles complete the circuit they are on and then bunch up at the top, I also need to restrict which animations are used for which orbits as some don't work with all animations now and finally the guys at FDroid also had a couple of suggestions I want to add code side.
Cheers,
Ben.
Looks really cool, personally im not a fan of things following my finger unless its doing it in a subtle way but that's just me. other then that it's a really cool design and im sure others will love it
Uploading version 2 now
Hi all,
Just uploaded v2 of Orbitals LWP.
So it should go live on the Play Store any moment now.
I've only added one new transition but I've also cleaned up how they work and combine so the next one should not be as difficult to add ... but I'll be working on ADBassist for a while, so it may be some time before I add another..
Until then enjoy v2 with zoom in and zoom out (and various other minor fixes).
Awesome, nice, interactive Live Wallpaper HD for your Android Device.
Our landscape helps you to feel the nature right in your office, home or travel - in anywhere.
Live and real physic shows you all features of tools which are created to simulate the power of nature.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.divarc.fallenleaves.free
Google Play - DIVARC GROUP
Nice live wallpaper, looks realistic and not cheap like other LWs. Just got the free one might upgrade for more options
Edit: Just purchased it, like the added options. great job
Looks nice!
Good job.
At Axiomworks, Inc. we are a team of 2 people - a developer and 3D artist / art designer. We make 3D live wallpapers for Android. All our wallpapers present fully 3D experience, unlike numerous 'fake 3D' apps with simple parallax scrolling of backgrounds.
You can find a full list of our live wallpapers on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Axiomworks,+Inc.. Average rating of our apps on Google Play is above 4.0.
Here is a list of some of our apps:
3D Car Live Wallpaper
Free / Full
With 3D Car Live Wallpaper you can feel a freedom of driving a highway in a legendary sports car. Mostly straight road slightly twists between hills, and you can watch as car passes by trees and bushes. There are plenty of customization options: car color, rims color, camera rotation settings. You can change even license plate number of a car to any custom text.
Free version has one car and one landscape type, and full live wallpaper offers more great cars and landscapes for any season with weather effects.
Bamboo Forest 3D Wallpaper
Free / Full
This live wallpaper brings a scene of serene bamboo forest to your Android devices. Wind runs in the top of bamboo trees and gently sways ground vegetation. Occasional butterflies fly through warm sun rays, casting flickering shadows on the ground. The view rotates reacting to your gestures and home screen changes, revealing the different angles of beautiful forest.
In full version you can customize a whole lot of objects in live wallpaper, like ground and grass, color of bamboo plants, butterflies or fireflies, path and railings, stone lanterns, falling leaves, sun rays, dust particles etc. Free version has less customization options.
3D Jelly Bean Live Wallpaper
Free and Ad-Free
All Android fans will be glad to watch a symbol of the latest Android version on home screens of their phones and tablets. As usual, this live wallpaper is in full 3D. And it is not only adorably cute but also very useful - it shows battery level of your device. The lower the battery level is the less jelly beans are in Android jar.
This live wallpaper is absolutely free. You can watch a video of 3D Jelly Bean live wallpaper on YouTube and download it from Google Play.
3D Lotus Live Wallpaper
Free / Full
This live wallpaper will bring you to beautiful and calming lotus pond. Such ponds are always associated with relaxation, rest and calmness. It depicts the scenery of soothing, calming water surface covered with lotus plants and their blooming flowers. Koi fish peacefully swims beneath green lotus leaves, and air is full of life and movement of fussy dragonflies and butterflies.
This live wallpaper has full day-night cycle change; users can choose between different times of day or let the wallpaper follow current time of day. Also, you can customize flowers colors, duckweed and insects.
As usual, it comes in two versions: full version with all customization options and more basic free version.
3D Tulip Live Wallpaper
Free / Full
This live wallpaper presents you a view of tulip flower surrounded by neighbors in the field. The flowers gracefully sway on the wind and the view slowly rotates giving you a fully 3D overview of the scene. Live wallpaper reacts to gestures, rotating the scene in the direction of your swipes and homepage changes.
Full version of live wallpaper offers you a choice of 8 flower colors, including two-colored ones. Free version is limited to one color, it has only wind configuration.
3D Rose Live Wallpaper
Free / Full
3D Rose Live Wallpaper is a fully 3D live wallpaper depicting rose flower reacting to gestures. You can rotate flower by swiping through your home screens. It will change it's rotation on any change of home screen. Recently updated version of this wallpaper has an option to add a photographic vignette as an extra eye-candy. You can change color of rose and background the way you like.
Free version of wallpaper is somewhat limited in configuration options but still it's good enough to decorate your phone's home screen.
Lantern Festival 3D
Free / Full
Lantern Festival 3D brings typical Chinese scene to home screen of your phone. Full moon in calm summer night spreads its gentle light over this serene landscape. Water reflects trees which are covered by dense fog coming down from ancient mountains and further to the river, hiding fisherman's boats resting on waves. Lanterns with flickering flames of candles inside them are left adrift and slowly float down the river. And people in castle are celebrating holiday by launching floating lanterns up to the sky. As usual application comes in two versions: full with all options available and free with somewhat limited customization possibilities.
3D Melting Candle
Free / Full
3D Melting Candle live wallpaper brings antique table to your home screen. Enjoy the serenity of this evening scene. Flickering light of candle casts shadows from all object on the table. The candle melts according to battery level of your device. You can customize this wallpaper the way you want. You can disable certain objects, and change the look of almost all things, from large book and quill to small coins scattered around the candle holder.
Free version doesn't have all objects you will see in full version, and doesn't provide a lot of options to customize the look of wallpaper, but it still have the melting candle to check your battery level.
3D Guns Live Wallpaper
Paid version
Put a 3D scene of military weapons to your homescreen with this live wallpaper! It represents fully 3D view of modern military weapons, customized by your choice. Selected loadout can be watched from all angles, and camera movement will react to your finger gestures and homescreen changes.
There is a lot of customization options:
- plenty of pistol and rifle models to choose from;
- weapons have customizable attachments, decorations, and colors;
- customizable additional objects, including knives, grenades, binoculars etc;
- environment and effects settings;
- different camera modes.
So....XDA is an advertising platform these days?
Thanks nice work
Just installed the new "Bamboo Forest 3D Wallpaper" On my Sg3, Unbelievable, looks like you could walk right into the Phone…
:good: As far as advertising go’s, XDA could never be accused of being some hotbed of altruisms. :silly:
Nexus 4 bug
Installed the Jelly Bean 3d wallpaper but brightness of reflexes seems a little messed up...It is just me? I have a stock Android Nexus 4... Attached screenshot...
kenkiller said:
So....XDA is an advertising platform these days?
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Is that so..........
No, XDA promotes developers. These wallpapers are beautiful and deserve recognition. Thank you for the post and for supporting devs XDA.
kenkiller said:
So....XDA is an advertising platform these days?
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Oh come on....
I dunno, it just seems too clean to be a Dev thread. I mean, if such posts are OK, what's stopping any Dev with a free/trial version from opening such threads all over XDA?
Nice work! Little beauty on my screen.
This is really impressive!
Is this compatible with Xperia Z and how can I use it? Does it require root/sueruser?
Fabowski said:
This is really impressive!
Is this compatible with Xperia Z and how can I use it? Does it require root/sueruser?
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These live wallpapers work on any device with OpenGL|ES 2.0, Xperia Z included. And they do not require any root.
just curious, what did you use to capture the screen for the jellybean video?
I love the candle one, thanks XDA for the promoting and thanks developers for theses animations
Regards
Very nice work indeed! :good:
Love the car one!
P.S. No rules are being broken here so no more OT nonsense.
Latern festival isla amazing!! Great works guys!
Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk 2
These wallpapers are awesome... It's such a pity that I can't try them... I ain't got no playstore :crying:
alicarbovader said:
These wallpapers are awesome... It's such a pity that I can't try them... I ain't got no playstore :crying:
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Why not?
the_scotsman said:
Why not?
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Because I'm no fan of External SD Card and all the apps 2 sd thing cuz my country ain't got class 10 sd cards. So the only option I have is to change hboot to small system and bigger data partitions just for extra 100 mb. That's why I remove all the apps that are huge in size(including the google things) to spueeze extra space from any ROM. Its a real dilemma to remove apps from the ROM's zip file and then copy it to my card so as to install them. And I'm a flash- and ROM-aholic
Force close
The free 3D car force closes every time I go to my home screen, on note 2 t-mobile...
Jelly-bean-man said:
The free 3D car force closes every time I go to my home screen, on note 2 t-mobile...
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Please PM me log with crash info. Thank you for reporting this bug.