Are there any drag racing fans out there who also happen to be LWP dev's?
I had a couple of idea's for a drag racing themed LWP. First is just a simple christmas tree that cycles through the lights as you tap it. Another would be a running big block on the screen that reacts to the CPU cycles, i.e. as the CPU cycles go up, the engine runs faster and you see more flame coming out the pipes. I'm sure you get the idea.
I'm sure there are more idea's that you all could come up with, just throwing the idea out there.
Hi everyone,
I've put my first app up on the market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.anddev.wallpaper.motion.timer
Here is the youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfADhuBjdnA
I would really appreciate everyone's feedback and impressions!
Cheers,
-=JK=-
I can´t watch the Video, because EMI has block this ?
Darn ... didn't realise how restricted that would be with a soundtrack on it.
Here's a video with no sound track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JewxFD-zp3E
-=JK=-
Installed it and then set as wallpaper but no balls are displayed. Also there are no settings on the wallpaper. Am i missing something here?
Very cool looking...what happens if you shake it? =)
- Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G -
Xee,
You should see some balls appear when you tap the screen.
When you get 32 balls on the screen subsequent taps cause mini-explosions.
It's a very simple wallpaper, so no settings yet. I might find something to set when I update it.
Obartuckc,
At the moment, nothing happens when you shake it
It responds to the accelerometer by changing the direction of gravity on all the balls.
I could look into triggering something on a shake ... what would you like it to do?
Cheers,
-=JK=-
I like what you've done with it thus far, whatever you do can only make it more awesome! I really like how if you add a new ball on top of others they sort of fling out...perhaps shaking it could make them pop or sort of explode? That'd be neat. Whatever you decide, keep up the good work!
- Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G -
this totally reminds me of those liquid motion desk toys...
that's a live wallpaper i would like
That's great to hear PatcheZ!
That's exactly the feel I was going for.
I'm hoping to figure out a way to extend to something like these: http://www.officeplayground.com/Liquid-Motion-C23.aspx
It'll be a solid body physics sim until something as great as http://www.box2d.org/ comes along for fluids.
Cheers,
-=JK=-
Man, you got balls.
nice job with this
Thanks for the comments.
-=JK=-
I would've loved to see the video, but apparently you've used some music from EMI and they've blocked the video because of it. Could you reupload it without the (alleged) copyright infringing music track?
TheCreat,
Sorry about that. There is a link in the video description to this version which has no music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JewxFD-zp3E
Hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
-=JK=-
This is a really cool wallpaper, thanks.
Very Nice, but once all of the balls have reached the top or bottom of the screen there is nothing going on.
Could the ball toggle their state after they have been at the top or bottom a certain amount of time?
For example: after a blue dropper is at the bottom for x seconds, it becomes a green floater and floats upwards and vice versa.
Thanks for the feedback guys, great to hear.
Spauldio,
When you change homescreens the gravity should switch ... which will make all the balls start to fall and float again!
Cheers,
-=JK=-
PS - I'm using the onOffsetsChanged method to accmplish this behaviour - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/wallpaper/WallpaperService.Engine.html#onOffsetsChanged(float, float, float, float, int, int)
- but it seems a little inconsistent in when it's called ... sometimes called on "half" changes to the homescreen. Haven't been able to figure out how to make it robust ... I just switch the gravity flag when it's called.
Version 1.1 !!!
Updated to version 1.1
I've kind of combined suggestions from Obartuckc and Spauldio. I've added a shake control, so that when you shake it gravity is switched and the balls all start flowing up and down again.
Hope this goes down well
Cheers,
-=JK=-
Hey, just installed this, it's great! But how's battery life?
Thanks NickHu!
I haven't noticed any difference in battery usage to previous live wallpapers I have used.
Is there some benchmark I can use to gauge battery usage of my app?
-=JK=-
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.
One more application for the upcoming Halloween is ready for you! This one is dedicated to your phone's safety, and it offers the spookiest pictures for your zipper lock screen. You can change them every day if you want to, and you can also use this creepy app after Halloween is over, if you are into horror and scary stories.
Scary Zipper Lock Screen is available here: https://goo.gl/HUv8hh
A little duckling Stasy learn to fly.But then she tired,and must come to the ground.Help her to come home.Touch left and right,eat fruits to have bonus.And wont touch the blue ground.Remember she cant stand on blue ground.