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My second app!
This is a live wallpaper of Mario playing randomly generated levels. Every once in a while, a level ends and a new one begins. There are three themes for levels: outside, underground and castle. They appear in that order.
Have a look at wallpaper's settings! You might find something interesting there. Like the ability to change FPS, or to disable level background (making levels darker).
By default, this live wallpaper is in the playback mode. If you switch it to AI mode, it tends to waste a considerable amount of battery power because of the artificial intelligence, which is rather complex. The fact that the wallpaper is nice enough to be stared at for long periods of time, doesn't help that situation either.
By default, this wallpaper is set up to have a low priority. This is good, but not if your device is running a CPU intensive app. So - if the wallpaper is very slow on your device (something like 2 frames per second), consider looking at battery logs to find application(s) that waste a lot of CPU time.
And, at last, as all my work, this live wallpaper is donation supported too. So if you like it, consider buying be a cup of much needed cofee or a pizza.
See the video of how it looks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g58o9w0bg4
Issues? Read the FAQ in the next post below.
To get the live wallpaper, use this link from the android device, or this QR code:
<no longer available via market because of a legal claim by Nintendo>
Or, download this APK if you don't have the market on your device or for some reason don't see it there.
MarioLive_094b is the latest version.
Changelog:
0.94b, published 2010-7-23 [first post on page 25]
- by popular demand, removed the app icon that was added in 0.93b (now Help)
- new configuration options: Help, Changelog
- new group: appearance settings (with a preview)
- new appearance settings: Background color, Overlaying color (usefull for dimming)
- increased buffer to make transitions in low priority mode smoother
- ad space on top of settings is now reserved
0.93b, published 2010-7-17 [first post on page 24]
- new "playback mode" which saves battery, turned on by default
- smoother shifting of Mario
- added an app icon, explaining that this is a live wallpaper, and describing settings
- removed a limitation which prevented some devices from seeing the live wallpaper on the Market
- further bug fixes
0.92b, published 2010-6-26 [first post on page 5]
- bug fixes of force closing due to threading concurrency
- trying to fix a bug where Mario wouldn't be centered on Evo
0.91b, published 2010-6-26 [first post on page 4]
- fixed preview bug, where Mario wouldn't be in the center
- introduced "Always in center" option to force Mario be in the center all the time
0.9b, published 2010-6-25
- initial release
Frequently asked questions - FAQ
I've downloaded and installed it. How do I set it up as a Live Wallpaper?
Follow this procedure:
go to your home screen
press the menu button on your device
select "Wallpaper"
select "Live Wallpapers" *
search and select for "Mario Live Wallpaper"
select "Settings" to see the settings or select "Set wallpaper" to activate it
(* if you don't see "Live Wallpapers" option in the "Select wallpaper from" menu then your device probably doesn't support Live Wallpapers)
What is the difference between "AI Mode" and "Playback Mode"?
Playback mode uses prerecorded plays, so Mario doesn't think but just "plays back" one of the 1000 or so levels from memory. AI mode makes Mario smart, and he will use artificial intelligence to complete the level. AI mode uses MUCH MORE BATTERY, and also might not work correctly on some older devices due to lack of memory and processing power.
I've turned "AI Mode" on and this wallpaper wastes a lot of battery. What can I do?
That's just how the Mario's artificial intelligence is, very demanding on the phone's resources. Turn the AI Mode off or if you absolutely want it, you can disable course background and decrease FPS to remedy the issue.
Why does this Live wallpaper require internet access?
It's to download and show ads. They appear in the Live wallpaper's settings.
I can't find this on the market. Where is it?
Your phone is probably unsupported. If you're sure that your phone supports live wallpapers, you can try manually installing with the APKs that are at the end of the post above.
I can't download the APK. My phone says "Cannot download. The content is not supported on this phone". What to do?
Don't download it with your phone! The default browser in Android doesn't support downloading APK files. Try this:
download AndroZip from the market. It's a file browser app
download the latest APK from the first page of this thread, do it with your PC
transfer the APK to the phone's SD card
on the phone, go to Settings -> Applications -> check "Unknown sources"
launch AndroZip, search for the APK on the sd card, and select it. You should be offered to install the live wallpaper
later when installed, go to home screen, press the menu key, select Wallpaper -> Live Wallpapers, search for Mario Live Wallpaper and select it
This is so cool! How about you theme it like this game? Or make another like this other game? Or maybe that game?
This is not likely going to happen because of copyright issues. The Mario Live Wallpaper is made from free and open-source material (check About in the settings) while any other game (even themes from Super Mario) are a no-go because the vast majority is proprietary and copyrighted.
This LWP is very cool. Thanks! How can I contribute?
In a number of ways:
by contacting me if you have any issues, not mentioned in this FAQ
by saying thanks
by buying me a cup of coffee or a pizza
OMG
this is awesome!
GREAT!
i really laughed when seeing it!
really really great ^^
do you know how many battery it takes?
whats happening when there is a fullscreen app launched? i assume than the wallpaper is stopped?
edit: maybe a random difficult level could be good, so that he sometimes uses 1 or sometimes 15 every level different difficulty? randomly maybe?
haha thats really cool!
It lags a little though for me when I flip between screens, especially one with a scrolable widget.
Thank you for share with us
qvert said:
OMG
this is awesome!
GREAT!
i really laughed when seeing it!
really really great ^^
do you know how many battery it takes?
whats happening when there is a fullscreen app launched? i assume than the wallpaper is stopped?
edit: maybe a random difficult level could be good, so that he sometimes uses 1 or sometimes 15 every level different difficulty? randomly maybe?
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Thanks!
On my device it usually shows 10%. Yes, of course, the wallpaper pauses when it's not visible.
Good suggestion! I'll consider it. Right now the difficulty is actually random between what ever you set and up to 3 higher. So if you set 4, the difficulty will be random from 4 to 7.
th0r615 said:
haha thats really cool!
It lags a little though for me when I flip between screens, especially one with a scrolable widget.
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It's supposed to lag. This means that it gives priority to your home screen and widgets. It you don't like this behaviour, turn off low priority from the settings, but then everything will lag. As I said, Mario's AI is complex.
can't find in market even when scanning QR code.
this is ridiculously awesome.
Awesome! Thank-you. It would be great if you made a version based on Super Mario World 1...
dudebro said:
can't find in market even when scanning QR code.
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There you go. I've added the APK to the first post.
pikipirs said:
There you go. I've added the APK to the first post.
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Thanks! was not showing up for me either. I'll redownload once available and rate it highly!
This **** is epic! I love it.
pikipirs said:
There you go. I've added the APK to the first post.
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thanks, guess this is like the starfield wallpaper. it shows up for me on froyo but not eclair.
Nice job! *10char*
Very sweet and surprisingly smooth with Launcher Pro.
I downloaded the .apk from the first post and I'm running it on cyan 5.0.8. For some reason Mario is off the right side of the screen, so I can't see him actually jumping over anything or doing anything. Is this wallpaper supposed to be used in landscape mode or is something wrong with my install?
awesome!
found on market on 2.1
The best!!!
simply brilliant !
chesh420 said:
I downloaded the .apk from the first post and I'm running it on cyan 5.0.8. For some reason Mario is off the right side of the screen, so I can't see him actually jumping over anything or doing anything. Is this wallpaper supposed to be used in landscape mode or is something wrong with my install?
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The view should align with homescreens. If you're in the center homescreen, Mario should be at the center.
He might be shifted to the right in the live wallpaper preview mode, since that is the "zero" position.
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 !!!!!!!
Hey guys, I spent a lot of time testing various wallpaper sizes/application methods and I finally put together my personal compilation of wallpapers downloaded for my desktop and cropped them down to the resolution that works best for the Kindle Fire. Included in the pack is a nice variety of automotive, art, scenic, skyline and bird wallpapers that I'm sure most of you guys will enjoy. All the images are high resolution and look awesome on the KF display.
To properly apply, either email them to yourself or host them on an image hosting website and open the image with your browser of choice. Then tap and hold the image until a pop up appears to apply wallpaper. The various methods of applying wallpaper in Android itself don't seem to work and compress/stretch the image. Hope you guys enjoy these!
Photo album here - http://s1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/vinson_matt/Kindle Fire Wallpaper/
Thanks or feedback is well appreciated!
Photo album link added for those that don't want the whole pack. Also makes it very easy to access and apply wallpapers via Browser.
EDIT: For whatever reason "apply as wallpaper" is not available in Silk Browser so the default Browser will need to be used.
Excelente! This was exactly what I was looking for. Nice work...
Cheers!
Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk
Hey guys I apologize I'm going to re-upload everything. I used the wrong width, will be fixed shortly.
EDIT: Fixed. Wallpapers will be added occasionally so keep that link in your favorites.
How do I install it?
The RAR file isn't installable, you just extract the contents.
The easiest way is to visit the Photobucket photo album and get the direct link of the wallpaper you want, copy/paste into web address and them tap/apply as wallpaper in Browser on your KF.
Are you rooted or using the stock OS?
Hello,
I present you "Hollywoodly". An application which fetches data from online database and displays it. It's just around 1.5 mb. This took me so much time as I'm very new to networking.
It has two sections. Tv shows and movies. Get all the info about top rated/popular/upcoming/now playing/Airing today/on the air tv shows and movies.
Features:
Top rated tv shows
Popular tv shows
Airing tv shows
On the air tv shows
Top rated movies
Popular movies
Upcoming movies
Now playing movies
Top 250 movies
Bottom 100 movies
Trailers
If you like this app then please don't hesitate to show your appreciation via rating this app and providing me the feedbacks.
If you have any issue or questions then please try to contact me via the given mail id below. rather than providing bad rating.
Download:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=swipe.vivek.com.hollywood
Version.1:
Code:
[B]Initial release[/B]
Version.2:
Code:
[B]Now this app uses glide library for better image loading and caching.
Changed RecylerView animation
Implemented custom fonts to the texts
Fixed fcs
New icon (Thanks to ankit rawat)
Adding features in the next update[/B]
Surely a Must have APP!
Great app, Vivek! As always, fantastic work!
:good:
Nice app concept.. Needs so much work though.. Visual and tabs needs more work.. It looks so normal.. Try to improve it with next coming updates..
Nice work buddy.
emjimadhu said:
Nice app concept.. Needs so much work though.. Visual and tabs needs more work.. It looks so normal.. Try to improve it with next coming updates..
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Wow.
Cowboy from Hell on a twisted trail.
Koffed From my Big Ass Outlaw Phone.
emjimadhu said:
Nice app concept.. Needs so much work though.. Visual and tabs needs more work.. It looks so normal.. Try to improve it with next coming updates..
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That's how the tabs must be like. This app uses google support design library for the tabs/navigation drawer/recycler view.
No third party libraries. Pure google stuffs.
Great!
very nice selection of content for viewing.
Version.2:
Code:
[B]Now this app uses glide library for better image loading and caching.
Changed RecylerView animation
Implemented custom fonts to the texts
Fixed fcs
New icon (Thanks to ankit rawat)
Adding features in the next update[/B]
Download:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=swipe.vivek.com.hollywood
Nice update, Vivek!
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Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidow.wallpapers
App contains all the available Android O inspired full HD wallpapers collected from around the Google Search, Which are free to share among us and categorise for every user taste.
Created this app to share the wallpapers and also avoid the annoying Ads which happens in most of the wallpapers app. Transition of all wallpapers doesn't make you go crazy to uninstall this wallpaper app.
Features :
Save or share , is always your choice.
Crop and set the best of yours taste.
Unique and Unseen collection on ur device.
Switch to pics or categories view to select ur choice.....
Attention or permission:
Connection to the Internet to see the pics.
Storage permission to save all the walls.
Expected:
Don't get tense by looking at bugs,
Report to me to wipe away all at once.
Expressions:
Amazing and Ultimate collection of images for your screen to refresh your day, week, month and year.
Awesome image presented with simple UI.
Handpicked new wallpaper and updated every day, just don’t miss to check Latest collection.
Mark the favorite and also download to your own device.
Share the image to anyone via any application to spread your choice.
Keep your own favorites and histories.
Note: Still Looking to create powerful post, need some time to make it look good.
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