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[Live Wallpaper] Album Art - RELEASED!

Have spent a bit more time working on Live Wallpapers, and the newest one pulls your album art and shows it on the home screen, a bit like the screensaver OS X comes with.
Features:
* Accesses your Android album art library (if you see it in Music Player, you see it here...)
* Shuffle feature
* Compatible with LauncherPro
* Very fast (approx 0.5 seconds on first load)
* Smooth scrolling between screens
* Periodically changes individual covers
* Opaque setting to make pale text easier to read.
Update:
Thanks to the team of beta testers who did a great job helping me identify bugs and implement a few new features. The Album Art Live Wallpaper is now released to the Market for 99p, and a demo is also available for free.
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Album Art Live Wallpaper
Album Art Live Wallpaper (Demo)
Free copies:
If you encounter a serious problem in the demo (for example, it won't load on your phone) and you work with me to fix it by sending a log entry etc, you get to keep a free copy. ;-)
Update v1.1 (16/07/10):
Just uploaded version 1.1 to the Market. Amongst other fixes this addresses an issue where incomplete album art collections resulted in a large number of grey Android tiles (missing artwork) showing on the home screen. The app will now make 10 attempts to find a replacement tile before giving up and moving on.
Update v1.2 (19/07/10):
Various bug fixes; possible solution for Droid users ("Use internal storage" option), greyscale rendering.
Download the demo below or on the Android Market. It's only 99p and took a huge amount of time and effort to get to this point, so if you like it, please buy it!

It looks snazzy enough, I wouldn't mind being a beta tester.

I would really like to try this out. I put a lot of music on my phone to listen to frequently.
wouldn't mind being a beta tester for you if you need anymore.

I would love to help test as well.

I'm in to be a beta tester for this awesome project.
an option to specify a folder from gallery will be awesome too.

PM'ed you mate
JD
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Sign me up! I love my music, and I would love seeing it everywhere else!

This is why i love the zune player on windows, i love seeing the all my album art as the music plays. Great idea!

sign me up looks great!

I'll be a beta tester!!
Still trying to find a 250Gb SD card to fit all my music on

Would love to be a beta!!! Sign me up!!!

only two testers? Let me be no. 3.
errh... waited to long, now I am not no. 3 anymore.
Anyway...

Are you guys just posting here, or pm'ing him? He did specify a pm to let him know. Just checking. Also, let him know about your phone, what kind it is(most likely N1 if you're reading this thread), what rom you're running(which I forgot to do, it's Cyanogen 5.0.8), and what kind of home you have, I'm sure he'd want to see a wide mix of home replacements to see if any of them have any issues.

+1 on picking the folder to display.

count me in this looks nice

I'm down for whatever...count me in.

Amdathlonuk said:
I'll be a beta tester!!
Still trying to find a 250Gb SD card to fit all my music on
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Let me know how that works out for you lol
I'm interested in beta testing also.

Me too!
+1 tester here, sounds like a phenomenal idea!

I wanna be a beta tester too

count me in too!
also another idea would be to have this
as a background to the waveform live wallpaper
that would be sick when listening to music :]

Somewhat unique input request

How difficult would it be to make a driver for an input device? I know that in the android sdk there's the ddms utility that I use for screen shots, but it also logs things on the device. Or what about the recently made public google app creator?
My dad is a professional piano player and uses a laptop on the music stand for his massive collection of sheet music. The music is just se up like a locally stored website. He has a foot assembly with 2 pedals to go forward and back through the pages. It plugs in with usb.
How dificult would that be to work with the usb port on a G tablet? I'm borrowing a friends for the night playing with it but we are looking to get one but this is a big factor.
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How difficult would it be to make a driver for an input device? I know that in the android sdk there's the ddms utility that I use for screen shots, but it also logs things on the device. Or what about the recently made public google app creator?
My dad is a professional piano player and uses a laptop on the music stand for his massive collection of sheet music. The music is just se up like a locally stored website. He has a foot assembly with 2 pedals to go forward and back through the pages. It plugs in with usb.
How dificult would that be to work with the usb port on a G tablet? I'm borrowing a friends for the night playing with it but we are looking to get one but this is a big factor.
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If he's using something like this;
http://www.digitalyes.com.au/prodView.asp?idProduct=61809
It might just work as we already have usb keyboard support so you may need only to edit the keymap to have the key/button sent from the pedal to do what what you want just like mapping a key on the keyboard to a function...

This is the pedal he has
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Windows auto loads drivers for it though it gets lost in a mess of Human Interface Devices in the device manager so I'm not 100% sure which it is
I tried to Debug capture if it is getting a signal from anything from it but not seeing it.
This is what we're trying to work with with it:
You can see how I just did that in the browser,
That is a screen of the Lyrics, and here is a sheet music
and this is in the gallery.
However, he has an INSANELY massive collection, and his HTML pages link to each other so it is a large directory, and then pull up the sheet music via a link on the lyrics page. What I am imagining is that you'd click the link on lyrics page and it would ask "do you want to use gallery or other program" dialog.
What would be nice is mapping the foot pedal to that, or at least using finger swipe but I'm not sure how to in the browser.

You'll probably need to write a quick app for this. Something that will read the list of files, htm/png's whatever, provide a list, let the user pick a song and then display it, I'll bet that thing acts like a keyboard so all you'd need to do is listen for keyboard events, no driver required, and act accordingly, aka displaying the next sheet, etc.

What do ya use to listen for keyboard inputs? is that in DDMS? I'm not seeing any changes in the running log at the bottom of the app.
We both agree this is ALMOST perfect for him, but he may need bigger. The tab itself works great but when the sheet music is on it it's a tiny bit hard to read at the distance he needs.
He swears that Asus and Viewsonic are both having a 12" tab coming out but I can't find much info on that. What I did find has an i5 processor so that's a bit much. Whats the biggest android tab?

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What do ya use to listen for keyboard inputs? is that in DDMS? I'm not seeing any changes in the running log at the bottom of the app.
We both agree this is ALMOST perfect for him, but he may need bigger. The tab itself works great but when the sheet music is on it it's a tiny bit hard to read at the distance he needs.
He swears that Asus and Viewsonic are both having a 12" tab coming out but I can't find much info on that. What I did find has an i5 processor so that's a bit much. Whats the biggest android tab?
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Check out this thread ;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464&highlight=key+event
there's a KeynrTracker.apk for checking key events....

Ooo awesome, I'll check that out. Thanks
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Split-screen multitasking/dual monitor app?

The Note's screen is large enough that in landscape, split in half, each side is still larger than many phone screens I've used before, including smart phones. I'd really like to be able to do split screen multitasking. Has anyone made something like this yet? Sure, the resolution of each half would be a little weird at 800x640, but doesn't ICS alleviate resolution issues? I'd love to be able to use each side as a separate monitor.
If not, perhaps it could be split into two 800x480 screens with a strip of controls in the center. Or split into 800x800 and 800x480. Should be easy to adapt graphics for 800x800.
This is something I'd really like, so if it's not done already, someone please do it! Should I repost this in development? It may be more involved than just creating an app.

... very good question

I think the easiest solution is using a remote log in app with your computer.

The Note's screen in half equals to two 3.62" of 640x800 screens! That's 2 iPhone screens and more!
I'm sure the text/icons will be way more readable/viewable that the "mock-up" below..
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is there any app which do that...?

This is not trivial as it may sound on Android.
According to Android concepts, there may only be one Activity* in the foreground.
Other pop ups and menus are not full blown activities. Android manages all the Activities.
Activities that are not in the foreground are closed to free memory up.
The only way I can see without modifying android is to find some way the widgetify an android activity so it is treated as a widget. This way you can place two apps as widgets next to each other and even resize them as you like.
* An android activity is a java class extending the Activity class, managed by android window manager.

maybe will possible soon with wind river
http://www.windriver.com/oha/
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Try getting in touch with Kyocera's Echo developers, that phone certainly had two apps in the foreground.
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I can try developing one, as we can always override the system resources to believe we are outputting on 2 pixel density and reserve the processes.

deadlyheart4u said:
I can try developing one, as we can always override the system resources to believe we are outputting on 2 pixel density and reserve the processes.
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Sounds very interesting, I'd be interested in this.

Viamonte said:
Try getting in touch with Kyocera's Echo developers, that phone certainly had two apps in the foreground.
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true that ! until you have loads of money to give them

We may get lucky, it may just be a matter of porting it's code.
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I hope someone could just develope an app, it sounds very interesting
Isn't there any game yet (e.g. racing game) which does exactly this?

I will putting my prototype very soon, I am already developing for this, I hope you people might extend some help, it already ripped me off by lot an amount buying some stuff to accomplish this.

It should be possible. After all there's already one App available that will do 'MultiView' and that's called Stick it! Free your Player!

Beards said:
It should be possible. After all there's already one App available that will do 'MultiView' and that's called Stick it! Free your Player!
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Confirmed.I use the Stick It!and contrary to some reviews it works very smooth on my GNote.

hagba said:
Confirmed.I use the Stick It!and contrary to some reviews it works very smooth on my GNote.
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Have you also tried the same developers calculator named AirCalc.
It works on the same principle and is great when you need a calculator with another App ~ i.e. EasyMoney & AirCalc.

I think better than splitting the screen into 2 would be if we can push the output via MHL to a screen and move an app there, how one can do on a PC with 2 monitors.
So watch a movie on the TV/monitor and text or use the phone on its native display.

Onskreen Cornerstone makes three windows for multitasking. It currently only works on Motorola Xoom. But it is open source and has to be incorporated into ROM. I hope some clever developer can adapt this for GNote*. Check out
www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/
EDIT: * I forgot to add PLEEEZ!!!!

DualPanels let you watch video and browse the web at the same time
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.thynguyen.dualpanel2
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[APP][2.1+] Tiny Apps (floating)

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Tiny Apps - a package of 7 floating utilities
Tiny Apps is a package of 7 useful floating apps that stay and float on top of all other apps. You can run several windows of the same Tiny App. All windows can be moved and resized. A widget is also included.
Tiny Apps lite includes the following:
Tiny Notes - taking notes
Tiny Recorder - record audio
Tiny Music - play your music
Tiny Paint - doodle paintings
Tiny Calculator - calculate different expressions
The following features are enabled in Tiny Apps Pro:
Tiny Widgets - make any widget float
Tiny Browser - a simple internet browser
Transparency - change a window's transparency
Shrinking - dock windows to minimize them
Tiny Apps lite
Tiny Apps pro
For further suggestions, comments and issues leave a reply to this thread.
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Looks promising but the lite link doesn't seem to work.

djsubtronic said:
Looks promising but the lite link doesn't seem to work.
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Google didn't list it yet. It will be available soon.

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Free one works now; this is a really awesome concept and the apps look great.
A couple of suggestions: calculator app could be a little bit bigger so its easier to press the keys on a phone screen, and maybe the recorder app can default the filename to the current date and time if no filename is typed in. Also I noticed a bug when I recorded a clip, the date was set to 1 Jan 1970.
Edit: just noticed calculator has a resize button! Ignore that suggestion.

djsubtronic said:
Free one works now; this is a really awesome concept and the apps look great.
A couple of suggestions: calculator app could be a little bit bigger so its easier to press the keys on a phone screen, and maybe the recorder app can default the filename to the current date and time if no filename is typed in. Also I noticed a bug when I recorded a clip, the date was set to 1 Jan 1970.
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You can resize all windows by dragging the bottom right corner. This should enlarge the Buttons of the calculator. Thanks for reporting the Bug!

UPDATE
26.03.2013
- Tiny Notes: textcolor set to white
- Tiny Calculator: default size is bigger now
- Tiny Recorder: if no filename entried, current date and time is set

this is pretty nice. It's like having the whole xperia small apps suite on a non-xperia! xD

Very nice and useful! Any chance to have a window where any app of my choice can be open? Some kind of multiwindow from Galaxy Notes

fantastic music player, very nice!!!

SammiSaysHello said:
this is pretty nice. It's like having the whole xperia small apps suite on a non-xperia! xD
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Do you want to write an article about tiny Apps ? That would be pretty awesome!

UPDATE
29.03.2013
- Tiny Recorder: no details about date anymore
- Tiny Paint: default color set to red
- all: lists are better sorted

Link to wallpaper in second screen?
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Haha. Its a stock wallpaper of Huawei Ascend P1. Dont know where to get it.

Please Fix tiny app windows for low resolution devices also.

rkmiks said:
Please Fix tiny app windows for low resolution devices also.
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I will.

I love it. Simply awesome. This thing deserve more attention.
One suggestion: A option to change the background color for the paint.
Not really important but just a suggestion. Keep it up.

Need add tiny picture player
Awesome app, I'll try all now. But can you add tiny picture player, too. It's very nice to every one watch picture, video or listen music in a screen.
Thanks. :fingers-crossed:

Purchased, installed and now waiting on a hidden SwipePad pad ready to be launched. Great work.

Works great on the nexus 4.... great little piece of ingenuity
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[THEME] Opulence - One-Click Downloadable Home-Screen

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PrecieUX: Opulence is a one-click-applicable home screen decoration pack for BuzzLauncher users. Even if you have never used BuzzLauncher before, you can easily apply this beautiful home screen on your own device (whichever phone it may be) with a few clicks. If you do find it appealing, how-to-apply procedures are prepared for you at the bottom of this post.
Before moving on, please watch the teaser video I've prepared for you. I took time and care producing this video, so please watch in HD!
As the video read, certain privileges are available to only a number of special people. . . people like you. Opulence will bring the luxurious life-style that you deserve to your phone.
Ground up photoshopped matching pixel-to-pixel accuracy, tile-icons boast elegant details in even the phones with the highest resolution available in market today: Full HD (1920 x 1080). Designed and developed using Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4, Opulence is compatible with devices with other resolutions such as but not limited to HD (1280 x 720) or WVGA (800 x 480). Do not worry whether Opulence is going to look the same on your phone, because BuzzLauncher will automatically adjust layout and size of icons for your phone, whichever screen-size or resolution it may have.
Opulence is composed of 3 tabs: Main, Media and RSS. When you're in each of the three tabs, bottom of the tab you're in will glow to indicate the tab you're in. To switch to a certain tab, simply touch the tab you wish to switch to. Switching tab-to-tab is simply gorgeous: it feels like turning on a light-bulb by pressing on it.
The first tab of Opulence is "Main". Graceful widgets intuitively deliver to you information regarding date, time, your schedule, location and the weather. It has never been easier to see the important information so conveniently and so tastefully. Bottom third of the screen has short-cuts to the most necessary functions of your smartphone: downloading new applications, contacting your friends through social network services (folder containing short-cuts to different apps) and using your telephony services. The bottom dock is constant in all 3 tabs. Left tells you the percentage of battery you have left, and right tells you the time. Pressing the "Apps" icon will summon your phone's app-drawer that has all of your applications.
The second tab is your playground. It is worth a lot to live up to tight schedules, but sometimes you should enjoy good music or watch sensational movies. A big album-art of the album you're listening to decorates your second tab, so this tab will be automatically personalised to you individually according to the music you prefer. Without having to leave your home-screen, you can control your music player using the stylish control-icons already prepared for you. The Internet icon connects you to Google Chrome (but the short-cut can be directed to another application if you prefer another browser), and the Multimedia icon is a folder that contains apps most frequently used when listening to music or viewing your pictures and videos.
The third tab, as its name implies, has a gigantic RSS reader widget. Just pull out your phone from your pocket and unlock; the information you want to read will be updated and ready for you. (Press the bottom right corner of the RSS widget to add/remove RSS feeds). If the website you like does not support RSS, you can also choose to make bookmarks to your favorite websites and store them in the Bookmarks folder on the same screen.
To have PrecieUX: Opulence as your home-screen, please follow these steps:
* for convenience, you can choose to access http://www.bluepremium.co.kr/entry/PrecieUX-Opulence-Global. Then you can simply press on the following links.
1. Download and install BuzzLauncher by Buzzpia. Link: http://goo.gl/zSTxU
2. Access PrecieUX: Opulence homepack page: http://goo.gl/THRmS
3. Press "Download"
4. After applying Homepack, you can apply icons as you wish by downloading the icon pack for Opulence from the following link: http://bluepremium.co.kr/attachment/[email protected]
5. If you like Opulence, please take a minute to press the "like" button on Buzz Launcher. I've thoroughly explained the process in the following link.
http://bluepremium.co.kr/236. 1 minute you spare for me will mean a lot to me. Thank you.
Thank you, and enjoy your opulent life-style.

the homescreen looks phenomenal :good: will be trying out BuzzLauncher tonight

Thank you
saywhatt said:
the homescreen looks phenomenal :good: will be trying out BuzzLauncher tonight
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Thank you! Your compliment makes me feel very happy

Guau!!! really gorgeous.
I will try it as soon as I can. Thaks for sharing!