[Q] Live Wallpaper Question - Android Software Development

I am a noob to developing and was wondering if anyone can give me a good start at creating a Live Wallpaper.
In my head its quite simple.
i have a set of Pictures from a bootanimation.zip i use.
i want the screen to show the first image until i touch it. then i want it to cycle through 2 sets of images, finally replaying the 2nd set until touched again, then go back to the first image...
anyone think you can help me out with that?
thanks...
and in case anyone is wondering im trying to make a stargate live wallpaper, that activates and deactivates on touch.

I an on my phone so I will comment more later. But you should first check out the cube live wallpaper in the samples. Since it is a working example it so should be a good place to start. After looking through the example take a look at the official docs to see what everything is doing.
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[INFO] Wallpaper resizing...

Hey folks,
Not sure if anyone knew this, but felt I needed to share in case someone was struggling with this.
I was trying to change my wallpaper to this cool one (http://picasaweb.google.com/106634558980524885375/Android#5510327223138403954) I found from a member of another Droid X site. I forget the owners tag, my apologies.
Anyway, I wanted to view neary the entire image as my background, but when going to Media Gallery it kept displaying an orange box that didn't allow me to select the full focus of the image. So, I tried resize the image 5 ways to sunday so I could see nealry the full image. No good.
So as I was resigning myself to the alloted small focus area, I, by chance placed both my thumbs on the orange boxes edges and it changed to allow re-sizing of that box!
Now I view the more interesting sections of the image and still allow the scrolling between desktops.

[Q] Help! Odd wallpaper issue. Changes by itself.

My wallpaper changes by itself to some random picture that I don't even have. I use the Water live wallpaper with the autumn leaves and then at some point throughout the day I go to look at my phone and there is a random picture as a wallpaper instead. It has happened to me about three different times all different days. Has this happened to anyone else? If so how do I fix it?
I apologize if a similar question has been posted before but I looked and haven't found anything.
Any other phone... and I would say you're running out of RAM memory and phone pushes live paper out of the system (which would be replaced with your stock wallpaper) but this phone has so much memory that it hardly would be the case. 2 things I can think of:
1. Your live wallpaper may have some sort of bug in it and forcecloses every now and then (is this from the market? read comments!!!)
2. You're using a task killer/manager of some sorts and it's killing the live wallpaper process.
Does this help at all?
Good luck.
Hey Borodin1 Thanks for your quick reply. I feel like an idiot. I figured out the problem. It was an app called astronomy picture of the day. There is an option that enables the picture of the day to upload as your wallpaper automatically. I installed a bunch of apps at one time and I didn't really explore astronomy picture of the day so I wasn't aware it was doing that. lol So that explains the astronomy type pictures my wallpaper kept changing to every single day. lol

Set my own pix as wallpaper?

How do I set one of my own pix, located in the eMMC /media as a wallpaper WITHOUT having resize it?
I can set any pix by tap and hold on the main screen then choose Wallpaper and select the pix I want but it always asked to resize before let me save as wallpaper.
Doing so will shrink my pix. I don't want to resize it, how do I do it?
Note: even I pre-cropped my pix to 1024x600, it still wont let me choose the entire image as wallpaper.
Not entirely sure, but you might try moving your presized images into the same folder where the Cyanogenmod wallpapers exist and selecting from there. I know when I select those, it doesn't ask for resize.
Good strategy, krevo.
I'll try that but b4 that, where is the Cyanogenmod wallpaper folder?
Try QuickPic and please don't think I'm being insulting when I suggest you double check your horizontal and vertical dimensions. I have swapped them a couple times without thinking about it and then couldn't figure out why the pics looked so messed up.
+1 for QuickPic--Love It!
Running off eMMC w/o uSD, Gallery didn't work so QuickPic was my one of my choice and is my favorite (other choices were Large Image Viewer, ...)
Anyway, as I stated above, even 1024x600 pix, still forced me to crop. Expanding the crop box to maximum, of course, still not happy with it. I look for a way to just use the pix as wallpaper w/o modifying the image.
votinh said:
Good strategy, krevo.
I'll try that but b4 that, where is the Cyanogenmod wallpaper folder?
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I looked and it turns out that it isn't a folder its an app.
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I thought/hope krev said that he did put his pix in the folder.
anyway, I don't know why it's so complicate just to use our own image as wallpaper w/o doing resizing.
It's strange that you can't. I don't have any trouble. How many screens are you using? That might have something to do with it. This thread has some suggestions you might try.
irisclara said:
It's strange that you can't. I don't have any trouble. How many screens are you using? That might have something to do with it. This thread has some suggestions you might try.
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If you can and I don't then I blame myself first, must do something wrong. Will try again and again.
Anyway, I always set up 3 screens (note: by default, it's 5)
In that thread I linked some people are saying that Wallpaper Set and Save made it work for them.
I just don't understand why we are all having different experiences with setting wallpapers. I guess there are so many possible combinations of ROM, launcher, resolution, apps, and who knows what all else. I seem to recall a big thread at MobileRead about this very thing.
Another thing you might try is searching the Nook Themes And Apps forum here for wallpaper threads. This is a common situation that has been solved several times but not always the same way.

Wallpaper Solved! (Using Gallery Cropping Tool)

If this was done already than I apologize… I did make some effort to search the forum…. (little)
I tried many times to set custom wallpapers on my Tab... only to get frustrated with the Gallery Cropping Tool!
I tried many different wallpaper resolutions… some looked better than others.
The best results you get with abstract wallpapers since you probably do not care much if its crops things here and there…, but what if you want to center something in both portrait and landscape mode??
I decided to try a few things in Photoshop and was very happy with my results…..
(once again, If this was already done by someone in the past than I am sorry)
I created a Photoshop template that will help all in creating custom wallpapers.
The document has “crop areas” that match the Gallery Cropping Tool so that when trimmed you will get exactly what you placed in the “live areas” (with guides…etc.)
All is self-explanatory one you open it in Photoshop.
Do Not forget to save as a jpg
On the Tab,
Go to Gallery, choose the Wallpaper..... extend the cropping to maximum.
Attached is the PSD and a Sample Wallpaper.
I hope this helps..
Sample pics not showing, but sounds promising. I too have been frustrated by the stupid cropping of my wallpapers.
EDIT: Tried to download on my PC and says that zip is corrupted. Can you try a reup plz? Thanks
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Have you tried multi-picture live wallpaper from the market?
Yes I did.
I wanted a different .....simpler approach to set custom wallpapers. (No need for extra apps on my Tab)
+ the template gives me more control
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fixed and tested
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Loops...noticed a problem...not a big deal....
When I made and tested the template I had wallpaper scrolling turned off and only one homescreen. Upon enabling all home screens (7) And enabling scrolling I found that while scrolling it over shoots into the gray area in both landscape and portrait mode. This can be easily fixed by extending images on the template....
I'll try to edit the template and make more guides when I get the chance.
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All you need is 'Simple Image Wallpaper'! Seriously. I went though all of this garbage to get the wallpapers to fit correctly and everything was solved once I got:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
peterniez said:
If this was done already than I apologize… I did make some effort to search the forum…. (little)
I tried many times to set custom wallpapers on my Tab... only to get frustrated with the Gallery Cropping Tool!
I tried many different wallpaper resolutions… some looked better than others.
The best results you get with abstract wallpapers since you probably do not care much if its crops things here and there…, but what if you want to center something in both portrait and landscape mode??
I decided to try a few things in Photoshop and was very happy with my results…..
(once again, If this was already done by someone in the past than I am sorry)
I created a Photoshop template that will help all in creating custom wallpapers.
The document has “crop areas” that match the Gallery Cropping Tool so that when trimmed you will get exactly what you placed in the “live areas” (with guides…etc.)
All is self-explanatory one you open it in Photoshop.
Do Not forget to save as a jpg
On the Tab,
Go to Gallery, choose the Wallpaper..... extend the cropping to maximum.
Attached is the PSD and a Sample Wallpaper.
I hope this helps..
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I am glad that you were able to figure it out, and I think pretty much everybody went through the same process if not on the tab then on another Android device ( I know I did with my old Captivate ). But I hate that we have to do it like this to get the pic centered properly on the tab or need to download a new app to make it work properly.

Google Now background as dynamic wallpaper?

I just though the Google Now backgrounds might make a nice dynamic background for my N7.
Does anyone know if anyone has done this?
I use paperland but I find animated backgrounds to be a bit laggy on the N7 so the GNow one might be a nice compromise.
I know blackbear has a gnex and has done this. Not sure if it was dynamic. I think so. I came across his g+ page and saw that he did it a few weeks ago.
I found this site, which appears to have everything I need to make it happen
http://mycolorscreen.com/2012/08/10/google-now-live-2/
I went there and downloaded the wallpapers and they aren't very clear they look upscaled. I really hope someone can vector those images and turn that into a functional live wallpaper, that would be outstanding. I'd rather not have to install some other apps to manage my wallpapers.
I was in London at the weekend and the top of the google now page was London themed.
Would be interesting if Google Now actually populated useful cards once in awhile.
frank35 said:
Would be interesting if Google Now actually populated useful cards once in awhile.
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It gives me a map and directions to appointments in my calendar, that's pretty useful to me anyway.
It also tells me what the weather was like several hours ago, which is useful if I build a time machine and just want to go back a few hours to test it.
flukeSG2 said:
I went there and downloaded the wallpapers and they aren't very clear they look upscaled. I really hope someone can vector those images and turn that into a functional live wallpaper, that would be outstanding. I'd rather not have to install some other apps to manage my wallpapers.
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I was working on one, but the small details weren't turning out well. So I did a basic image of the large parts and it looked alright, maybe I will upload it later
I did it guys !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2203949

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