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[Live Wallpaper] 3D Active Blocks **updated 5/22/11 **.

This is my first android active opengl 3D wallpaper. Its tilt sensitive and when you touch the wallpaper it causes a ripple effect in the blocks. I have some options to remove the random z axis movement and two different block textures.
I’ve only tested it on my nexus one, and I’m looking for feedback(ideas) and how it runs on other active wallpaper enabled devices.
Thank for trying it out.
Video preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttkBMfPyrXQ
Version update 3.2.3
Added grid rebuild effect when wallpaper comes back in view. Can also be disabled in settings.
Reduced app size, project cleanup and changed some textures to jpgs.
Version update 3.2.2
More work on gallery image selection and the image is now better aligned with texture.
More work on movement code, hoping this corrects the grid position errors
Version update 3.2.1
Rebuilt with target OS 2.1 and lowered texture size to help reduce FC's.
Latest version 3.2.
- Added gallery image clipping, to better size image to grid.
- Uploaded app to market.
Features and effects for version 3.1
- Sticky finger effect (item can stick to your finger and fall back down)
- Disable accelerometer option, saves on battery
- Optimized touch selection.
- Made changes to gallery image loading. Reduced memory footprint and better scaling. (still in work)
- Homescreen page position now tilts the grid.
- Worked on landscape mode. (still in work)
- New preference settings.
**Note It can now be downloaded from the market, just seach for "activeblocks" or use the below link.
market download link http://market.android.com/details?id=com.nibblertech.activeblocks&feature=search_result

Why it asks permissions for Storage and Phone calls?

I have installed it on my HTC Desire and it seems to be working fine.

obvious question is... how's the batterly life since it uses the sensors?

tsouza said:
Why it asks permissions for Storage and Phone calls?
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I'm looking into why its wanting those permissions, because the only one I use is ACCESS_SURFACE_FLINGER for object selection screen buffer writing.
Also I'm working on custom texture selection, which gives you the abillity to use any picture for the textures.
As for battery life, my wallpaper stops running when its not in view so that should help battery life.

Version 3 updated, many new features and effects, see first post for details.

Added video preview see first post for link.

Looks very nice.

cool idea, but it needs higher quality images to start. maybe some additional settings to tweak the users experience?

Looks cool. going to give it a try.

How to remove this??????
for my dext it's tooooo heavy
can't find any way.. hmmm
edit.
es file xplorer can't find it but standard app remover yes... sorry (however nice app )

So I downloaded the app for my HTC Desire and sent it to me through mail. I installed the app and it said that it was installed. But I can't seem to find the app anywhere in my app list, anyone knows why?

I tried this out, it seems to be pretty cool, but on the Droid X it seems to tile images. Maybe it is set to work with a certain pixel size image and tiles them if they are over that size?

You can remove this when you go to settings --> Aplications --> Manage applications --> All
it should be in that list

thomasedridge said:
So I downloaded the app for my HTC Desire and sent it to me through mail. I installed the app and it said that it was installed. But I can't seem to find the app anywhere in my app list, anyone knows why?
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It's a live wallpaper, not an app. You set it as a wallpaper. That's why the thread starts with [Live Wallpaper]
Hehe.

Very cool. Woul love to pick an album, rather than just a single picture from my gallery. Perhaps picking a set number of pics would be ok, also.

lwp
I have never had a problem installing apps before, some reason with this i get an error saying that no app can be found to install it. Any ideas?

im a noob to all of this.. what steps need to be taken to get this onto your device? galexy s, vibrant to be exact

Its a cool live wallpaper its just makes my nexus choppy as hell, also I dont like the fact when you restart your phone and have a custom image the screen comes back on all white. Otherwise its pretty damn cool.

Very nice concept mate, works flawlessly on my SGS

[APP][1.5+] WebLiveWallpaper: set whatever you want as wallpaper or widget! (v0.98.4)

WebLiveWallpaper: Set content (galleries/animations/sites/cams from the web or local files/folders) as Live Wallpaper, live widget or as picture frame.
Create your personal show, create your own (animated) wallpaper with JavaScript!
Original first post:
I wrote my first live wallpaper today because I did not find something like it and thought it should not be too difficult to do. So here it is. I always wanted a real live wallpaper displaying something from the web instead of just a picture or offline animation. For me it is really useful because I can keep an eye on my favourite webcam over the day and decide to go there if the conditions stay or improve. A lot of other use cases should be possible ...
There is now also a picture frame app and a live widget included (also running on devices without live wallpaper support).
WebLiveWallpaper BETA
market://details?id=com.dngames.websitelivewallpaper
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.dngames.websitelivewallpaper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VM8L-rnzQ
Some instructions are included in the app description!
User Rangelus wrote a FAQ for me!
Happy to get some feedback,
Michael
Edit: updated apk to v0.98.4: large widgets and some smaller errors repaired
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.8: made local folders directly working as source
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.7.5: hopefully made it working on Android 1.5 devices and fixed Live Wallpaper Settings fc
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.7.1: rewrite of some stuff to fight memory and speed issues + app and widgets repaired again for Android versions without live wallpapers
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.6.7: Tried to save lost memory, to load settings more save for devices with slow file io. Added static gallery setting for fast refreshing large image gallery pictures after loaded once. + reddit as example for static gallery slideshow
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.6: New widget 4x2 size and finally selectable background color. Added reddit gallery (EarthPorn), seabreeze weather and a great Antwerpen (Belgium) harbour webcam as new examples.
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.4.19: Live! widgets in three sizes and with different content possible + widget context menu + fallback for missing images (advanced setting) + some internal rework
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.3.1: new Live! widget added (now paused when screen is off)
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.2.3: Widget repaired (!!) and other small changes + some crash fixes
Edit: updated apk to v0.97.1: Tutorial, some new animation examples + animated gifs also from sdcard now + website view and crash fixes
v0.97: new category of backgrounds: animation with some javascript/gif animation examples (this is a first version which still has to be improved!) + some crash fixes
v0.96.8.9: times stored/used in xml files, new extended image search fixes some sites which made digging more difficult
v0.96.8: first version of setup assistant + local pictures crash fix + again + trust all ssl certs ok + show crash fix + red screen fixed
0.96.7.1: show management and full mjpeg video streaming support (+ mjpeg change fix)
v0.96.6.3: local pictures (your gallery)/sites can also be showed, internal changes, more settings (+wifi reload fix)
version 0.96.3 has fixes again, runs google image search ok and streams (slow!) video in web snapshot mode
version 0.96.1 has fixes and new web view/snapshot
version 0.96 now you can create your own show!!! (and a lot of changes again)
version 0.95.1 with editable xml quickselection data and new options
version 0.95

Noone else thinking this is a great idea?
This enables you to get an automated cycling flickr-Wallpaper, the National Geographic Pic of the Day automatically on your homescreen. Or the latest News-Picture, or your wallpapers from many image galleries. And of course webcams ... and so on. I think this freedom and possibilities is what makes Android so great!
New version with asynchronous loading, much improved website parsing. Still a lot to do (performance, widget, website redirects supported, better organisation of links and settings, ...) and so little time. But I really think this one has to appeal to some more people than just on a few sports-forums I read/post where people enjoy watching webcams!?!
New apk attached to first post!

_miha_ said:
This enables you to get an automated cycling flickr-Wallpaper, the National Geographic Pic of the Day automatically on your homescreen. Or the latest News-Picture, or your wallpapers from many image galleries. And of course webcams ... and so on. I think this freedom and possibilities is what makes Android so great!
New version with asynchronous loading, much improved website parsing. Still a lot to do (performance, widget, website redirects supported, better organisation of links and settings, ...) and so little time. But I really think this one has to appeal to some more people than just on a few sports-forums I read/post where people enjoy watching webcams!?!
New apk attached to first post!
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I'll def give this a try!

this is awesome! thank you..

This seems a brilliant yet simple idea and seems to be well done. I will give this a try but its not realy for me as i dont have a data plan and only really use my wifi at home to connect so the updates on the pic would not be frequent enough.....maybe one day I will treat myself.
Thanks for your hard work

Def. bookmarked for later use. Very good idea.

New version 0.84 with optimizations and better gallery support
Loading is faster now (and you can enable a progress bar if you are curious/need to know).
I also added an option to dig into picture galleries (load the large version of the image which looks much better as a wallpaper on highres phones).
For the next update I am working on cycling the gallery pictures instead of using the most recent "best" one so there will be even more Live for more 'static' webpages.
New apk attached to first post!

Awesome. Thanks!
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

Version 0.9
Has a lot of changes (hopefully good ones) with the loading and gallery stuff and a LOT of options to set everything fine.
For example WIFI exclusive updating has been added! Also the quick selections have presets now to explain useful settings for your sites ...
Still a lot to do. Next will be password protected webcam/server access.

0.9.1 fixes some things
no more default WIFI-only enabled (red screen if mobile at first start)
fixes of parameters for some quick selection items
no more crashes with wrong/incomplete URLs entered by hand

0.91 ... watch xdadevelopers (or other website) live on your homescreen background
See last screenshot attached to first post It's a hack (web snapshot) I may regret/have to replace by something else later and not fast. But should be ok for a lot of use cases.
And a lot of more serious updates like a sorted settings menu, access to standard password protected servers/cams, better gallery updating with long refresh times.
Edit: v0.91.1 can now be opened after install/in market for all those people not knowing what a wallpaper is!

Taking a look at this on my sgs!!

Dev, you should have more confidence in patience, it's a great idea ;-). I typically wait until things hit the RSS, so I'm sure you'll see a little spike since it just came up in the past 20 minutes.
Good luck! I do have a question, have you judged the battery life impact? I did see the custom refresh rate option, but still I am curious to see what impact it had on both your idle and active battery life stats if you update as often as a regular widget since it'll probably download more data.
Suggestions: Be able to set up a schedule
Preferably with different settings for different days. For instance, M-F have it set to use pic of the day with an update every 24 hours, then on weekends have it set up to show a web/weathercam every 15 mins.
Also, being able to set it, instead of every X seconds, being able to set it to update maybe 3x on M-F would help out in a few cases. Example, to see a traffic or weather cam just before going to/from work.
Good luck, I look forward to seeing what you do with it, I'll let you know my findings.

_miha_ said:
no more default WIFI-only enabled (red screen if mobile at first start)
fixes of parameters for some quick selection items
no more crashes with wrong/incomplete URLs entered by hand
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all i can say is AMAZING
and also FOOTBALL scores as my live wallpaper FTW
come on you POOL!

Very nice. Works pretty well.
It would be real nice if you could get the picture to use the whole screen. Not sure if you are constrained by the site of course but I want to use this on my Archos 101 and it has a 1024X600 resolution so I get a lot of black bars.
Thank you for making this available.

Good idea.
How is on battery life though?

Very interested to see where this goes. Great idea IMHO. Subscribed.

Nice work.
Nice work. While trying this out, I ran across an issue. I accidentally the refresh time. If you enter nothing for the refresh time, it will force close (v0.91.2).

Great idea
Think of busy parents whose kids are in a daycare with kiddie cameras...live feed of your baby !

Awesome app. Ive bben wanting something like this for a while. Maybe could add some battery saving settings. thank you !!!!!!!

Galaxy Tab Wallpaper collection

Hello Everyone,
I found out that this section needs a decent wallpaper thread. Therefore I would like to share some HQ wallpapers. I hope you like it.
Notes:
1. The wallpapers are optimized for landscape mode. If you want to portrait the photo. Use your launcher or photo editing app to do so. There are many apps in the market that can help you achieve that.
2. I will try my best to keep the wallpaper categorized according to Genre (eg. Nature, Games etc). Each pack contains 10 (Ten) images.
3. Files sizes vary since I didn't want to compromise the quality of any photo.
4. Check Back for updates.
Links:
Nature:
Nature Pack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?ymmln5mbtk0id0f
Nature Pack 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?8h14fq03mzza6hx
Nature Pack 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?0xaboxoaoa084tb
Nature Pack 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?tt12g6ud7z1cqln
Nature Pack 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?58dtgp4ij0th9ns
Games:
Games Pack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?lsuh1hp1gppb9ug
Games Pack 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?do12ca7bfabn0cx
Games Pack 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?b4qazuns38t1q9g
Games Pack 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ntd8ny0383y8yg
Games Pack 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?q933rrv13k42lh3
Cars, Bikes and Jets:
Cars Pack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?sthax84al1vm0a9
Cars Pack 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?6wjzh2s6kauuwwi
Cars Pack 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v2vtnxp9bbeuga
Cars Pack 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?3i8q1r6pcrcs7oo
Cars Pack 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?v94sgp35j25z3mi
Feedback and requests are welcomed. Bear with me as I am aesthetically disabled

20/07/2011
Initial Release with Nature and Games Packs.
21/07/2011
Added Cars, Bikes and Jets Packs.

thanks bud for the wallpaper , there was a thread like this a few weeks back
for the galaxy tab i think names as "tab wallpaper thread" or something

k0sh said:
thanks bud for the wallpaper , there was a thread like this a few weeks back
for the galaxy tab i think names as "tab wallpaper thread" or something
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I see. Well I started this thread to give tabbers a more comprehensive collection of wallpapers to choose from.
EDIT new packs added.

DarkPal said:
I see. Well I started this thread to give tabbers a more comprehensive collection of wallpapers to choose from.
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i'm not against it all actually i downloaded some
and i like to see more in Portrait because i'm not fan of landscape , can you do some ? i'll be thankful

thanks man! I have about 5 home screens and each has wallpaper that randomly changes every 30 mins or so. but this saves me a lotta time hunting for wallpapers...

Anyone else notice the quality significantly drop when using the gallery app to set a wallpaper

natious said:
Anyone else notice the quality significantly drop when using the gallery app to set a wallpaper
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Really? I thought it's just me. So, there isn't something wrong with my eyes.
I use Quick Pic now, it's much more better in quality.

Its a known Samsung bug (pixilization on scaling via the gallery app). It's been there since Froyo they havent fixed it ever since. Use quick pick as an alternative.

thanks man. Its awesome

Thank you very much. Some nice pictures there.

Thanks for this.

Very nice pictures.
Thank you !

[APP] Challenger Comics Viewer

Hi,
I published a comics viewer application on Android Market :
The application name is "Challenger Comics Viewer" : https://market.android.com/details?id=org.kill.geek.bdviewer
Supported format are :
JPG
PNG
GIF
BMP
WebP (Android 4.0+)
PDF
ePUB
CBZ/ZIP
CBR/RAR
CB7/7Z
CBT/TAR
DjVu
Main features are :
Automatic page loading
Zoom using multi-touch
Vertical/Horizontal scrolling
2 display modes (Simple View which displays pages one by one and Multiple Image View which displays all pages one after the other)
Scale filters: Bilinear, Bicubic, Lanczos4
Library with covers displayed to quickly open comics (multiple kind of views available)
Borders cropping
Reading from left to right or from right to left
Actions can be customized
Switch automatically to next issue when last page of comics is displayed
Single page and "2 page" display mode
Included filter to improve displayed images quality
Manual scrolling by moving finger on screen
Autoscrolling by long pressing screen
Fit to Width/Height display
Multiple Image preview type
Option to direct access to page
Network acces (samba, webdav, ftp and sftp)
History management
Support multi-language (for now, english and french)
Border can be display over Bitmaps to easily identify pages
Contrast/Brightness/Gamma management
Screen brightness management
Application can be moved to SD Card
Cached data can be stored on internal memory or SD Card
Files could be on device or on network.
Supported network protocols are :
Google Drive
SkyDrive/OneDrive
Mega
Ubooquity (http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity)
DLNA/Upnp
OPDS (beta)
Windows/SAMBA/CIFS
DropBox
Webdav (like box.com, 4shared.com, alwaysdata.com, ...)
FTP
SFTP
For people who have no access to Android market, here is a link to the apk file (Version 2.1.28) : Apk file (a mirror is also available here)
I need some user feedbacks.
Is there any kind testers which wants to try it ?
Thanks in advance.
--
The Challenger
http://challengerviewer.wordpress.com

I added a video.
Is there any feedback ?

Tried it... doesn't recognise CBZ or CBR the two most common net comic formats
I'll unzip/unrar them and try again.

It definitely needs CBZ and CBR support.
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

You are right. I will add support of cbz and cbr.
What about performance ?
Is it smooth (depending of your phone or tablet) ?
Thank you very much for your help.
Regards.

Seems super-smooth. Will be happy to use it if you can add the CBR/Z support and keep it running as nice!
Although I am running on a Samsung Galaxy SII running CheckROM RevoHD v4 and the excellent DarkKnight v2.4.3 kernel... so most things run pretty smooth!

I added both file support : .cbz and .cbr.
Cbz (zip) is not cpu consuming so app is still smooth.
About Cbr (rar), it's no as smooth as before but still usable.
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

I added PDF file support.
So now the list of supported format is :
JPG
PNG
PDF
CBZ/ZIP
CBR/RAR
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

I published a new version (v1.0.48).
This version contains new features :
A border can be display over bitmaps to easily identify pages
Added option to choose border size
Support multi-language (for now, english and french)
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

I published a new version (v1.0.51).
This version contains new features :
Added autoscroll by long pressing screen
Replace configuration screen
Added velocity management
Added korean language
Fix minor bugs
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

Any chance of getting a link to the apk directly? I'd like to try this but I don't have access to the Market on my Kindle Fire.
Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

Thanks, gonna try out my new Walking Dead Comics!

Thanks for the link! This works great on the Kindle Fire. The scrolling is kind of annoying at times, but it hasn't failed to open any file I've thrown at it yet. Is there an option to tap to turn pages instead of scrolling? If there is, I can't find it. If there isn't, there should be. Other than that this is a great comics viewer. Great job!
Drunk texted from my FactorySense Thunderbolt.

Thanks onestoploser for your feedback.
For now, there is no option to go next page (only by scrolling).
I will add an option for this.
About scrolling, you said :
The scrolling is kind of annoying at times
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What exactly is the issue ?
Thanks.

Will test now on cm9 p1000

The Challenger said:
What exactly is the issue ?
Thanks.
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Sometimes it seems to scroll too far, like into the next page after the one I'm going to. Setting the velocity speed to none helps, but still happens on occasion. That's why I was wondering about a tap to turn the page option. Like I said though, this is a great app!
Drunk texted from my FactorySense Thunderbolt.

onestoploser said:
Sometimes it seems to scroll too far, like into the next page after the one I'm going to. Setting the velocity speed to none helps, but still happens on occasion. That's why I was wondering about a tap to turn the page option. Like I said though, this is a great app!
Drunk texted from my FactorySense Thunderbolt.
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Thanks for your explanation.
I will try to investigate on this issue and a least add a "tap to next/previous page".

I published a new version (v1.0.55).
This version contains new features :
Added screen brightness option
Added contrast/brightness/gamma options
Added filter to increase images quality
User can Tap on screen to go to previous/next page (with animation)
Change AutoScroll behavior. To activate auto scroll, you just have to long press the screen once.
Fix minor bugs
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

The Challenger said:
I published a new version (v1.0.55).
This version contains new features :
Added screen brightness option
Added contrast/brightness/gamma options
Added filter to increase images quality
User can Tap on screen to go to previous/next page (with animation)
Change AutoScroll behavior. To activate auto scroll, you just have to long press the screen once.
Fix minor bugs
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !
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Sweet! I'll try it out after work tonight!
Drunk texted from my FactorySense Thunderbolt.

I published a new version (v1.0.57).
This version contains :
Fix Scrolling (Manual and Auto) on some devices (especially HTC devices)
Added option to deactivate bitmap filter
Don't hesitate to give a feedback.
Thanks !

[APP][3.0+] Anime Walls

A collection of 1920x1080 anime wallpapers.
The old versions of this application stopped working (I think the remote server changed their setup?), so I made a quick update. I don't wanna leave you guys hanging ^^
Clicking on the image will give you the option to quickly set it as your wallpaper, it will auto download the image into /sdcard/CuteWalls/*.
If you're on android 6+, you need to go into permissions and allow storage. I know I could've prompted for permissions, but yeah....
Enjoy!

Nice collection man.
It would be nice if you add save feature :good:

))))) Prety nice)