With the addition of the Nexus One to my Android family, I really want to use the excellent screen to the fullest of its potential. Games are one thing, but I would love to find some awesome eye-candy apps or trip toys.
A few that I have found so far are:
Andrainbow - Cool shifting color app
Automata - Game f life simulator that's interactive
IamascopeLE - Closest to what I'm looking for, it's like a 3D, interactive kaleidescope
Bubbles - Cooler if it were more realistic
Anybody have any good suggestions for apps that are just pure eye-candy? Not really looking for live wallpapers, just some neat (possibly interactive) shinys.
Try the Wave live wallpaper. Best eyecandy I've seen yet in a live wallpaper (no offense to earth rot! I just prefer the cartoonish, pastel style to the globe)--makes use of the accelerometer, has randomly appearing airplane/parachute/dolphins and all. The art is pretty good, too. I'm also fond of the Substrate live wallpaper package.
Have you tried out iLightr? I haven't given it a whirl yet, but it seems to be well-received.
Someone needs to directly copy the iTunes visualizers for live wallpapers. Those things are INCREDIBLE.
See, as I said - the Live Wallpapers are cool, but I want an app I can fire up and play around with. Like a physics demo engine. I've been browsing the Demo section and have come up with some cools things.
iLightr I had for a few minutes - MEH.
Gents, I've been working on this for a bit now, and I think I'll share it here. I'll try to keep this post short.
The line below with the icons is the link to the store page. I'll make it super corny so you can't miss it.
Minecraft Nether Portal Live Wallpaper
It ain't much, but if you love Minecraft, you may like this.
Make your device look like a Nether Portal! (A normal one is 2 wide by 3 tall. If you're in landscape, it reverses them.)
Unlike (stock) Minecraft, you can set a denser grid, with more portals.
Particles & sound are optional. Frame rate is both unlimited (As fast as your device can handle) or, limit from 1FPS to 60FPS (assuming you can handle it).
Unless you have a Galaxy Nexus like I, you may need to fiddle with settings to get it looking right, in terms of particles. I'm working on this. :silly:
To be honest, the sound drives me insane.
tl;dr for the lazy people: I made a Nether Portal for your device. [LINK TO PLAY STORE]
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:
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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.
Ice flowing
https://vimeo.com/387425022
Snow falling
https://vimeo.com/387425829
Ice flowing original
https://vimeo.com/387426366
vids
ice flowing
https://mega.nz/#!QxInQQxK!EtwTlJxaHFlQFRLZ9tH_6K16Krc53I36Pspuy3XwMwQ
snow falling
https://mega.nz/#!ZtADBCJD!IPB7cccNaFtHapJ_cDr6j_Zr0M0rYiETHPMdfzPxFMg
I personally think video or live wallpapers are kind of useless.
1) They use more battery consumption
2) They use more system memory.
3) who has time to sit there all day staring at their phone getting excited over desktop/lockscreen wallpapers or video's
How to do it?
Darkat70 said:
I personally think video or live wallpapers are kind of useless.
1) They use more battery consumption
2) They use more system memory.
3) who has time to sit there all day staring at their phone getting excited over desktop/lockscreen wallpapers or video's
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I personally think some allow us to gaze at the beauty of technology
I love surreal abstract wallpapers so I've made a small collection. I'm learning Blender just so I can make my own. I set it up so that it cycles between 15 of them every time I turn on my phone. I wish there was a way to have more than 15 though. Here's a Drive download link for all of them.