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!
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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!?!
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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!
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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.
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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 !!!!!!!
Hi All,
Please check out our latest app WallpaperCloud HD on Google Play: wallpapercloud HD
It works both for tablets and Mobiles, Please feel free to test the application and also please send in feedback to us.
Following is the App Description.
WallpaperCloud HD is the ultimate unbounded wallpaper cloud with many categories such as Arts, Nature, Celebs,
Cars, Models and Travel. All the Wallpapers are of HD i.e HighDefinition quality.
The Following are the feautures:
1) Supports 2 Modes in Setting Wallpapers. Crop-Set and Set as is.
'Crop-set' is where the user can crop any section of the Wallpaper and set it as Wallpaper.
(This is very useful for 'celebs' and 'models' categories of wallpapers.)
'Set as-is' is where the whole Picture is set as wallpaper.This is ideal for
categories such as Nature, Arts, Travel etc..
2) Unlimited Wallpapers - You get Unlimited Wallpapers via Peri
odic additions to the WallpaperCloud Cloud.
3) Notifications on arrival of new Wallpapers via Push notifications i.e if we add new wallpapers to our
cloud you get an instant notification on how many wallpapers we have added and to which category.
4) Zooming of Images.
5) CoverFlow User Interface for Categories and View Pager Interface for Wallpapers.
6) Auto-Caching of Wallapapers for quicker display.
With Regards,
Shashi Kiran G M
Nice pics, but spams ur phone with Leadbolt ads
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wallpapers seems to be good quality but its hard to browse pictures one-by-one, also not enough categories - plus some other issue but I don't believe this app is worth reviewing...
The app blasted my phone with spam, it also installed some sort of crap-ware app on my phone. I am uninstalling this thing and never coming back to it again.
Hiya everyone. This type of thread isn't new to XDA as it's on almost every device fora, but I decided to bring it over here aswell.
I'm going to share the most useful applications for the GNote 10.1 and would like you to share more must have apps to add to this list.
Check out post #2 for some of the best games on Android and check out post #3 for some of the best widgets we can use.
1. Power Toggles - This is simply the best toggle app around. Able to toggle lots of main features.
2. Picsay Pro - This is a brilliant photo editor, but limited compared to some others. My personal favourite.
3. Rotation Locker - WYSIWYG. It locks your screen to either Portrait or Landscape. Really useful on some apps.
4. XDA App ICS Blue Colours/Themed - Our favourite forum app but with a complete red or blue colour theme thanks to our own Whiskey103
5. Home Switcher - Switches between any Home Launchers you have on your device.
6. Memory Usage - Lists all current apps and tells you current memory usage, peak memory usage and priorities.
7. PicSpeed Wallpapers - Over 170,000 HD wallpapers of all different genres, for our device.
8. Bar Shortcut - This is for the people who want their home screen nice and clear.
9. Desktop Visualizer - Makes shortcuts or widgets using a custom image and can be used to make custom icons.
10. Wave Control - Execute actions by waving your hand over the screen.
11. Solid Explorer - Solid Explorer is a file manager which with two independent panels is the most attractive, eye catching and intuitive file manager for the Android.
12. PowerAmp - The most powerful music player there is.
13. SuperSU - SuperSU is the Superuser access management tool of the future. *ROOT*
14. ROM Toolbox Pro - ROM Toolbox combines apps like Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, ROM Manager and others. A must-have root app *ROOT*
15. AirDroid - For moving files between your PC and phone using WIFI
16. QuickPic - An alternate photo gallery app, incase you don't like the default
17. AdAway - AdAway is an open source ad blocker for Android. *ROOT*
18. Tasker - The best app of its kind. It does almost anything
19. MXPlayer - MXPlayer is one of the best apps for viewing movies.
20. Photo Timeline - Lets you create a time elapsed sequence of anything you want with your camera and then play as a slideshow
21. AVG Anti-Virus Pro - AntiVirus Pro is a mobile security solution that helps protect your mobile device from viruses, malware, spyware & online exploitation in real-time
22. Aldiko Book Reader - Read and download thousands of eBooks right on your Android phone or tablet.
Download one of the best Android eBook Readers now!
23. Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
24. Cerebus - Cerberus is a complete anti-theft application, the best protection you can get to recover your misplaced, lost or stolen Android device.
25. ScreenCast - ScreenCast records your phones screen at high frame rates and makes a HQ MPEG4 video with audio.
26. WidgetLocker - Simply the most powerful lockscreen replacement app there is.
27. Watchdog Task Manager - Allows you to see which apps are acting up and need closing.
28. Skype - Free voice and video calls + IM to anyone else on Skype, whether they're on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac etc.
29. Tapatalk Forum App - If you're a member on multiple forums, then Tapatalk is the ultimate forum app you will find.
30. ProCapture - Capture photos and panoramas like a pro with the ProCapture camera app. ProCapture adds advanced features to the Android camera experience. Multiple advanced camera shooting modes supported: Timer, Burst, Reduced Noise, Wide Shot and Panorama.
31. Appy Geek - Appy Geek brings you all the leading tech news sources from the industry in a cleverly laid-out user interface, including TechRadar, Gizmodo, T3 Magazine, The Next Web and more... Staying at the cutting edge of innovation has never been so easy!
32. VLC for Android Beta - VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
33. Dolphin Browser - Dolphin browser is the fastest, smoothest and best mobile browser, in my opinion. With Sonar voice recognition, gestures and multiple add-ons, this browser just gets better and better.
34. imo - Multiprotocol IM client - Support for Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Jabber, Hyves, VKontakte and Steam
35. BetterBatteryStats - With BBS, you can analyze the behaviour of your phone, find out which apps are causing major battery drain and measure the effect of corrective actions.
36. app2zip - App2zip allows you to backup apps to a flashable zip file through CWM or TWRP. Simply choose which apps you want and then click GO.
37. Shorten - Simply a URL shortener which saves a lot of time rather than going onto the internet each time.
IF YOU'VE FOUND THIS POST, OR ANY OF THESE APPS USEFUL, BE SURE TO HIT THE THANKS BUTTON!
If you know any unique or useful applications, games or widgets please suggest them in this thread so I can check them out. If I think they're good, I'll add them to the list.
*NOTE* - If you wish to know what the best app is regarding your needs, ask in this thread and I, or others, will be able to help you out.
So, if you want to know what the best music player is, ask here and I'll suggest the best ones available.
If there are any apps that you feel shouldn't be in this list, please let me know and suggest a better one. I can then test it and maybe add it to the list, in place of the other one.
If you don't suggest a better app, I won't change anything.
Must Have Apps for the Note 10.1
Due to popular demand via PMs, I've decided to add a slot to this thread to display some of the best games we can get on our Android device.
As with the app list above, if there's a great game you'd like to be added to this list, let me know and I may well add it in
1. Pool Break Lite - If you like to play pool, snooker, billiards etc. on the go then this is a great app you. There are a few different variations to play in either single player or multiplayer online mode and even more variations if you buy the pro version.
2. FIFA 12 - This game speaks for itself. It's the latest mobile version of the FIFA franchise and is easily the best so far, with it showing vast improvements. There's a load of different cups and leagues to play through and with great graphics with no lag in the slightest.
3. World Series Of Poker - Probably the best game from EA (in my opinion). If you like to play poker I totally recommend this game. You can play Texas Holdem and Omaha in either cash games, tournaments or play for a WSOP bracelet as the main prize. Guest mode is now available for no login from Facebook is needed.
4. iAssociate2 - This is a good choice if you prefer a bit of a brain tester. iAssociate2 is a word association game you have to figure out which words and phrases are associated to each other. Sound easy? Give it a try and you can soon find out differently.
5. Need For Speed Most Wanted - Another brilliant addition to the EA family, Most Wanted finally brings one of the best racing experiences to Android. It's a brilliant game all round but the only thing it's lacking, in my opinion, is 'free roam' mode. But apart from that, it brings brilliant graphics and flawless gameplay.
6. Grand Theft Auto III - Grand Theft Auto III was a crime game which changed the future of gaming and is amazing to play on the go with our Androids. The full console game with great graphics, full features and surprisingly no lag considering it's such a huge game. Countless hours of gameplay, HD quality resolution and visually stunning graphics make this a must for our devices.
Must Have Apps for the Note 10.1
The idea to add widgets into this thread aswell was an idea taken from Goku80 and I hope you lot like it.
So, the list in this post is strictly for widgets. I'll add some widgets myself as a base, but as always feel free to suggest some of your favorite widgets and they may make it into this list.
1. Beautiful Widgets - Beautiful set of Widgets containing clock widget, clock and weather widget, weather widgets, date widgets and toggle widgets with skins/themes support!
2. Fancy Widgets - Personalize your Android home screen with highly customizable clock widgets, weather widgets, home (clock & weather) widgets, forecast widgets, and more with lots of customization options.
3. Ultimate custom widget (UCCW) - If you enjoy customizing the look of your homescreen then this is pretty much a MUST HAVE app for you. It allows the user to create their own pure custom clocks with a near endless array of options to customize it how they'd like. However you want it, you can make it with UCCW.
4. Desktop VisualizeR - Here's another really useful widget if you love to customize your screens. This gives you the ability to make shortcuts and widgets with any image you specify, rather than just the default logos. You can also use this app to give apps a custom icon of your own, which is handy if your icon design doesn't currently exist.
5. Minimalistic Text - Minimalistic Text is a widget app that displays information in a minimalistic way. It can be configured to display time, date, battery and weather information. The layout of the widget is highly customizable throughout.
6. Eye In The Sky Weather - This is for all those who like their weather clean, simple and beautiful. The app includes 12 of the best weather icon sets and the ability to add your own icon sets.
+1 AirDroid. Airdroid is an absolutely fantastic app. No cables required.
Here are a few to take advantage of all the screen real estate:
Google currents
News360
Flipboard - only configured to operate in portrait mode.
S-pen
Sketchbook Pro - great for the artist in all of us.
Music Apps:
These music players also take advantage of the screen real estate. Both are paid apps.
Ubermusic
Zplayer - only configured to operate in portrait mode
Camera
Paper Camera - great effects and simple interface and operation.
Glimmr - Best flickr app available. Thanks to XDA member brK3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1891126
That Solid Explorer looks quite interesting thanks.
Oh, thank you for Solid Explorer. I was used to Astro but the new update has made it work strangely. Solid Explorer is sooo much better!
For Bar Shortcut, are you on JB? It doesn't seem to be compatible on my Note.
Tasker is the app to have! Thanks for this!:good:
Firefox Mozila - browser snyced with desktop and smarthopne
office suite pro + documents to go
Google currents - reader
Dropsync - to snyc dropbox
Evernote - snyc notes with desktop and smartphone
quickpic - userfriendly pic viwer
ezPDF Reader - to edit PDF with S pen
Franklin planner - not perfect, but one and only organizer
X-Plore is, in my eyes, the best file manager: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5sb25lbHljYXRnYW1lcy5YcGxvcmUiXQ..
Here is the SGS3 easy ums , it let you mount your sd card as mass storage not mtp http://db.tt/Yd5xVvCi
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Hest88 said:
Oh, thank you for Solid Explorer. I was used to Astro but the new update has made it work strangely. Solid Explorer is sooo much better!
For Bar Shortcut, are you on JB? It doesn't seem to be compatible on my Note.
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I don't actually have the Note. I just figured it would help you guys out a bit, so I can't actually know if some of these apps will work or not.
Can anyone else confirm that Bar Shortcut doesn't work? I can then remove it from the list
I'll also update the list soon, once I've had something to eat
Playstore said that my device isn't compatible with this version for wave control...
whitebizzle2000 said:
Playstore said that my device isn't compatible with this version for wave control...
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Same here N8010.
Gonna Email the developper.
Speaker Boost.
Increasing your tablet volume.
This free app is working excellent on N8000 and I recomend it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.SpeakerBoost&hl=en
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Must have ????
Infinity Painter ! This is a must ! :good:
I would say lecture notes is a must have app if you take a lot of handwritten notes. there is a trial version as well.
sharkeecz said:
Firefox Mozila - browser snyced with desktop and smarthopne
office suite pro + documents to go
Google currents - reader
Dropsync - to snyc dropbox
Evernote - snyc notes with desktop and smartphone
quickpic - userfriendly pic viwer
ezPDF Reader - to edit PDF with S pen
Franklin planner - not perfect, but one and only organizer
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I adore Google Currents,. Only issue I have with it is that it syncs with a delay. I end up reading many articles in Google Reader instead
Like to add Elixir
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bartat.android.elixir
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Here is a really good one to help set your wallpaper. Works fantastic.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
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Si Cotic said:
Like to add Elixir
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bartat.android.elixir
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Here is a really good one to help set your wallpaper. Works fantastic.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
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Elixir wants way too many permissions for me.
IMHO a absolute must have is share 2 copy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taroid.share2copy