Does anyone know of any Live Wallpaper tutorials floating around? I am in production of one and I don't know exactly how to take some animations and apply them to a wallpaper set up. If anyone knows how to do this, please help. Thanks in advance,
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If you're using canvas to draw rather than openGL, then the cube sample app is the best place to start
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/CubeLiveWallpaper/index.html
jgittins said:
If you're using canvas to draw rather than openGL, then the cube sample app is the best place to start
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/CubeLiveWallpaper/index.html
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If you are using openGL let me know, i can let u some pointers if not mayb even a sample setup.
I was also wondering if there was a way to take animated ImageViews and simply make it a Live Wallpaper. Or would it be better to draw arcs and make them rotate as opposed to using ImageViews as far as effecting battery life and quality of the wallpaper.
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Hello.
I've been browsing through the forums for a while now and even been going through some themes to figure out how the diamond handles the backgrounds in other then the Today (or maybe its called home?) Anyhow what i fear is that it isnt possible to set your own backgrounds in the other windows such as whole background pictures other then small meshes which is then handled by the diamond to paint the background..?
Is this the way it works or are there a way to set your own costum, whole backgrounds not just some meshes which it handles itself, into themes or some other way?
//Zorgin
Its not possible yet but who knows what the future holds
im hoping this will be enabled in tf3d 2.
yeah i was hoping to find an answer as well, the only thing i could come up with was the manilla editor and using that to manually change the backgrounds, but its very cumbersome to do...
hopefully some people can figure out an easier way to do this! it would be awesome.
like seriously, this display friggen rocks, you could have the ****tiest picture as ur wallpaper, but the screen clarity makes it look so nice lol
i love just waking up my phone and looking at the homescreen!
Does anyone have an app or a theme that will change the wall paper to pictures in a folder like the aero themes on windows seven. I have a new niece and nephew my wife would like to have the pictures change on the home screen plus I would love to get some pic to change too. Any Help or suggestions on where to start would be great. Thanks in advance
Mike12582 said:
Does anyone have an app or a theme that will change the wall paper to pictures in a folder like the aero themes on windows seven. I have a new niece and nephew my wife would like to have the pictures change on the home screen plus I would love to get some pic to change too. Any Help or suggestions on where to start would be great. Thanks in advance
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The only way I can think to do that would be to use a Mortscript that runs in the background and after a set amount of time changes the wallpaper.. this may impact battery life pretty heavily however.
I was wondering if a script would be the only currently that would do that. Thanks for your input.
(First, I'm trying to avoid HDwalls)
It has always bugged me that when you apply a wallpaper under Settings, that the wallpaper isn't as clear as if you were to view them in the "Picture" tab. In fact, the applied wallpaper is some what blurred at a lower quality.
Has anyone noticed this? Or is it just me because I can point out something you were not able to see.
try it yourself with some sharp jagged text as wallpaper. Then apply it to the lock screen as well.
You'll notice that the wallpaper on home screen is not as crisp and clear as the one on the lock screen.
Anyone know why?
you are right, I did notice this.
has it got something to do with the phone trying to squish the image into the right ratio instead of just cropping the image too fit?
not sure maybe some other members can offer their help?
See, you didn't even notice youself. And i think most people dont realize this as well.
Anyone got a fix?
rebump. rebump
Sense resizes the image to something smaller than 480x800 and then stretches it again (for some silly reason). It's a long-known problem - since the phone was first released. It's also one of the reasons that HDWall came about. The only alternative to HDWall I know is to install Co0kie's Home Tab. You can set wallpaper with that and it retains the original quality (as well as having a LOT of extra wallpaper options).
Try resizing or cropping the image to 480x800 then setting it as a background, that way the phone won't need to resize it for you.....
conantroutman said:
Try resizing or cropping the image to 480x800 then setting it as a background, that way the phone won't need to resize it for you.....
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It still does it. The default way of setting wallpaper in Sense is just crap.
johncmolyneux said:
It still does it. The default way of setting wallpaper in Sense is just crap.
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Really? That is truly retarted.... thanks for the heads up!
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The only alternative to HDWall I know is to install Co0kie's Home Tab. You can set wallpaper with that and it retains the original quality (as well as having a LOT of extra wallpaper options).
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cookies wall doesnt work. never did.
home tab>menu>home wallpaper> etc...
that path doesnt work.
unless there is some other way...
resizing images dont work either.
I just also want to mention that Cookies Home tab 1.8 does improve the quality of the wallpaper over normal Sense BUT they are still reduced in quality and resolution somewhat so are still not full quality.
So for me - HDwalls is what i use - though i sometimes have trouble getting it to work properly.
Use SPB Mobile Shell. You will get mega sharp wallpapers (custom of course) and far better functionality than standard sense.
I have tried out 3 different android builds, and what I found with the wallpaper when trying to use on the leo is the sizing aspect. You can actually look at the wallpaper in the gallery with no problem full view, the moment you try to use as wallpaper and set it it blows the picture up when set.I am quite aware that the android was not originally made for the HTC HD2 but if you can watch it in the gallery there must be a way.
what resolution are you trying to use for your wallpapers? on my nexus one (same screen res), i have to use 960x800+ backgrounds because of the wallpaper scrolling. if you're trying to use something smaller, it'll be blowing it up i think.
Thats a good question I never changed my screen resolution let me try that and I will get back to you.
Thanks a million
960 x 800 pixels
I need help finding out how to change my screen resolution if possible.
geewld44 said:
I need help finding out how to change my screen resolution if possible.
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I'm afraid that's hardware based. You can try to saw off a part of your screen, but post a vid
Just make sure you use 800x480 with DISABLED wallpaper-scrolling and 800x960 with ENABLED wallpaper-scrolling.
Also: Don't forget to pull the clipping border to the image edges when setting wallpaper from gallery!
Jealousy said:
Also: Don't forget to pull the clipping border to the image edges when setting wallpaper from gallery!
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that caught me out initially...
Jealousy said:
I'm afraid that's hardware based. You can try to saw off a part of your screen, but post a vid
Just make sure you use 800x480 with DISABLED wallpaper-scrolling and 800x960 with ENABLED wallpaper-scrolling.
Also: Don't forget to pull the clipping border to the image edges when setting wallpaper from gallery!
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Yeah I tried to crop the whole pic but it has a mind of its own it enlarges the pic when I hit set thanks for the info.
hey guys, im now using htc legend. i have a problem with their wallpaper function. when i try to set the wallpaper by using my own picture, it came out a green box for us to crop and select which part to display the image for wallpaper. can i ask what is the optimal / best resolution? the green box cant seem to stretch to the whole image, most of the time half of the picture only. i m looking forward to display the whole picture as my wallpaper.
sry for my bad english =[ any1 help plx
try getting pics with a resolution of 320*480.
market: wallpaper set & save
640*480 is the best resolution for your wallpapers, .png files will give the best result when using wallpaper set & save
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market: wallpaper set & save
640*480 is the best resolution for your wallpapers, .png files will give the best result when using wallpaper set & save
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Wallpaper set&save doesn't work, or better...it works but not in the correct way. If you read the comments on the market you'll see. The guy that made it said (lot of time ago) that he is working to make it works with Android 2.1 & 2.2.
I've lost my faith in that, so I just resize by myself the wallpaper I want to 640x480.
it just works great for me on my stock legend with android 2.1
dunno what your talking about :S