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Live wallpaper is an Android 2.1+ feature that adds the potential for animation and interactivity.

Live wallpaper is specific to Android. It was introduced in v2.1 (froyo). Most (but not all) phones running 2.1 support it; all phones running 2.2+ support it. Android Market filters searches so that only supported phones can find published wallpapers (android.software.live_wallpaper).

Live wallpaper allows the programmer to create an Android service (as opposed to an activity) that supports animation, interactivity, and scrolling. The SDK contains sample code for a live wallpaper that displays an animated cube and dodecahedron.

The novice live wallpaperer should start there. The Android source distribution contains code for some "standard" wallpapers that ship with most phones. AndEngine supports live wallpaper creation, as does LibGDX and GLWallpaperExtension.

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Android: Can I have layers in a live wallpaper?

I want to create a live wallpaper, and I want to have the bottom background slide together with swiping homescreen pages, while another layer stays always on top of the background and under the app icons. Is this possible and how can this be done?
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Audio in background from Live wallpaper on Android

Is it possible to play audio from a live wallpaper on Android? If so, how would I achieve this?
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Image management and scaling

I am developing a live wallpaper and I would like to know how to manage high quality images. I am quite new to android development by the way. I got 2 questions: 1)The image I use for wallpaper creation is a vector image (2560w x 1600h, 32bit, 10mb…
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Android ICS freezes live wallpaper?

I just developed my first android app - a live wallpaper. It was working perfectly on 2.3.7, but now I installed ICS 4.0.3 on my phone and it freezes badly when the screen gets locked. After that it takes a lot of time to unfreeze when I unlock the…
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Android : Restoring a Live Wallpaper

I have to implement an app which temporary changes the wallpaper. After some time the original wallpaper has to be restored. This is easy to implement for static wallpapers. But I want to replace a live wallpaper by a static one and after some time…
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Why wallpaper settings have exception error?

I do wallpaper to android and have problem. When I click settings button I see: 01-22 11:50:47.579: E/AndroidRuntime(18421): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-22 11:50:47.579: E/AndroidRuntime(18421): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method…
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Android Wallpaper Animation

I won't create wallpaper-application but have one problem. Please tell me how add ImageView or another element in android wallpaper-application to create frame animation?
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Live wallpaper with MainActivity

I have livewallpaper, settings activity for livewallpaper and also standard MainActivity. The point is that livewallpaper can't works with MainActivity together. When my manifest looks like this:
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admob (in a live wallpaper settings activity) crashes when clicked

I've made a live wallpaper. In the settings menu I've added admob. It loads ads just fine. I've used this tutorial http://irinaramazova.blogspot.com/2011/09/add-admob-adview-to-preferenceactivity.html. But when i click an ad it gives me security…
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Opening app or URL in Live Wallpaper

I have an app which basically loads a URL. The page on this URL has a few buttons to control few things. Now, I want to make a Live Wallpaper app which will set my app as the live wallpaper. Is it possible to do so? If it is not possible, then can I…
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Live Wallpaper destroying wrong engine - "set wallpaper"

Edit: I am starting over / simplifying this thread... Has anyone come accross this before.? Using the Cube Enging as a test template, very basic. I am in the preview screen of my live wallpaper and clicking/pushing "set wallpaper". 01-03…
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in app billing in livewallpaper: cancel purchase crash

I had the in-app billing integrated in one activity, accessed through the preference menu of the livewallpaper, and it's working fine and dandy. That is, until I tried to cancel an app purchase. The app crashes once I tried to cancel. FATAL…
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IPC with a subclass of WallpaperService

I am trying to make a live wallpaper on Android. I have one class public class MyWallpaperService extends WallpaperService { } And annother class: public class SettingsActivity extends Activity { } I need to make the SettingsActivity communicate…
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startActivityForResult from LiveWallpaper Service Android

I want the user to be able to tap on my livewallpaper to select an image from gallery. Is it possible to do this? To make this question more generic, how can we perform a startActivityForResult from a live wallpaper service? I have gone through this…
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Live Wallpaper Settings do not show up

When I try to launch the settings button for my Live Wallpaper I get a "Live Wallpaper Picker (process.android.process.acore) has stopped unexpectedly." And I'm not really sure why. I am using andengine. This is inside my main…
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