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Wallpaper is the background image on one's "desktop" or "home screen."

Wallpapers vary from system to system both in function and nomenclature. In Mac OS X, the wallpaper is called the "desktop picture." It is a static image or series of images that the operating system cycles through. Its function is purely decorative. In addition to traditional (static) wallpapers, Android (v2.1+) offers "live wallpapers." Live wallpapers are similar to normal applications, though slightly different (they are services rather than activities, so their capabilities are not quite the same). Live wallpapers extend the traditional wallpaper concept by allowing for interactivity, animation, and access to system functions. One of the challenges facing the live wallpaper developer is that the wallpaper is often overlaid with icons, widgets, and the like, beyond the programmer's ability to control or often even to detect.

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How to make a monitoring program appear as wallpaper?

I made a simple C# program to display basic information about some machines we have. The program is full screen and refreshed every second. We have a dedicated PC and screen in the shop to display it constantly but some directors want it on their PC…
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Android set image as wallpaper

Please show me an example code on how to set image as wallpaper using Android WallpaperManager. I have shortened and edited my question. Hopefully you guys could understand my question. I will show some attempts I have made.…
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What should I do to call Native Wallpaper picker to set Wallpaper for my layout in android?

That is my question. For them who dont know what i am asking, I want to make this menu to appear in my app http://db.tt/GQX9GBYF . The thing is that I Dont have any idea how to do it. I think that I have to create an intent, from it obtain image…
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How to set image as wallpaper programmatically?

I have been developing the application which need to set an image as wallpaper. Code: WallpaperManager m=WallpaperManager.getInstance(this); String s=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/1.jpg"; File f=new…
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Android app to change wallpaper at regular intervals using Timer

I wish to create an app, which would change the wallpaper of the Android device at fixed intervals, say every hour or so. Currently in my code, I start a service and am using a Timer object. The Timer object would be invoked at regular intervals and…
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Android setting wallpaper gone wrong

So I was developing wallpaper changer long time ago and got it released. After a while I started receiving comment the wallpaper not resizing correctly. Also I tried on different sizes of emus and they were right. I scale the bitmap correctly etc.…
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Live Wallpaper - "Set Wallpaper" - Need event to use to clear memory

I've created a Live Wallpaper that displays an animation by storing 70 or so images in an array and then displays them one at time to create the animation. I used the structure of the CubeEngine to design it. For the most part it works. When I…
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why does this code lock my files?

Ive narrowed down to this method but i don't understand why its locking the file. I believe you could use something like using( something) { //do stuff here } But im not sure that would A) solve the issue or B) be the correct way if it did. any…
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How to exlude all the devices which have low GPU in Android Manifest?

Basically, I created a live wallpaper for Android and tried it in my Droid X, Galaxy S, and Fascinate. And I noticed that it runs smootly in Galaxy S and Fasciante but not in Droid X which has lower GPU. My question is, is there anyway to exlude…
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Render to Desktop

I want to be able to render a thing as if it was a wallpaper. I use Windows, and I prefer DirectX. I know that VLC can render the video has a wallpaper in DirectX mode, so it's possible. So, a quick question, How could I set the rendertarget to…
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Avoid a wallpaper to stretch across 5 screens

I've been facing a problem. How do I set a wallpaper in Android, without stretching it across 5 home screens. To be clear, I have a resource images with resolution 320x480px and when I set it as wallpaper in Android, it gets stretched across 5…
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IllegalArgumentException while rotating device in Live Wallpaper picker Android 3.0

I'm developing a Live Wallpaper for Honeycomb 3.0, but I get a random error. When I'm in wallpaper picker (the window with "Set Wallpaper" and "Settings..." buttons, to understand) and Live Wallpaper is displayed, if I rotate the device, the…
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Live wallpaper is not accessible from other Live Wallpaper apps

I have developed a live wallpaper app and it is accessible only from Google's Live wallpaper app, but there are phones like Xiaomi, Oppo which has their own wallpaper app and My app doesn't show in their wallpaper section. Can anyone help me fix…
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Get an image/screenshot of live wallpaper on Android?

Is there a way to get an image of the current live wallpaper using the WallpaperManager API? I tried the following code, but it simply returned the the icon of the app that was used to set the wallpaper. PackageManager pm =…
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set wallpaper refresh on Android

I am trying to change the current user wallpaper. I have set the set_wallpaper permission and it works. But when I change the wallpaper I have to wait about 15 seconds to see the wallpaper change. This is currious because if I check the lock screen…
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