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Android - how to set the wallpaper image

Is it possible to set the android wallpaper image programatically? I'd like to create a service that downloads an image from the web and updates the home screen wallpaper periodically. ...

How to add fade effect when changing wallpaper using c#

Hi, is there a way to add fade effect when changing wallpaper just like on windows 7 using c#? Any codes or links to article will be appreciated. ...

Android wallpaper/background dimensions

Which are the default dimension of the Home wallpaper/background for the various Android screen configurations (small, normal and large screens with low, medium and high density)? Are 9-patch PNG files supported for the wallpaper? Should I be using these instead? I found a method in API level 5 that gives you the minimum size of the wa...

How does one detect when the wallpaper has changed (Windows XP or greater)?

I have figured out how to change the desktop wallpaper (there are dozens of examples on the Internet.) One thing that still eludes me: how do I detect when the wallpaper has changed? (Say via the Display control panel or another program changing it.) ...

android - save image from web server and set it as wallpaper

Hi, Can anyone please provide me some idea/guidance on how to save an image from a webserver and set it as wallpaper? i am developing an android application which needs to do that and i am new in android. Thanks a lot. I had tried writing my own code but it doesn't work as i can't find my images after download but the wallpaper has cha...

Android - How to set the wallpaper image?

What i'm trying to do is, set the wallpaper using an image URI (no cropping) I'm a noob at dev on Android and dev in general. The internet has failed me... on providing code to set the wallpaper. yes the dev resource site says public void setStream (InputStream data) but i don't understand it, some sample code would greatly help me. ...

Detecting wallpaper changes by the Windows 7 slideshow.

I have a Window that needs to be redrawn when the wallpaper changes. I can detect normal wallpaper changes by simply checking for WM_SETTINGCHANGE with wParam SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER. I'm not really happy with my current solution which simply uses a timer to check if the wallpaper has changed once a second. I've considered trying to parse ...

Are android wallpapers persistent?

I have an application that sets the user's background. Is it possible to remove the wallpaper if my app is uninstalled? ...

UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum with malloc_error

I have an NIB file with a button. When I click this button, the setWallpaper: selector is called. Everything works as expected (the image is saved), excepte by the error thrown by malloc. malloc: *** error for object 0x184d000: pointer being freed was not allocated *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug I've set a breakpo...

How to hide Windows Desktop and change desktop background color in c#?

I need to know how to hide Windows Desktop and change desktop background color in c# and restore the previous configuration. Any idea? BR ...

Live wallpaper on 1.6 android application

Hi I have an Android application with version 1.6 I take the wallpaper and show it on my application. (I do that programatically by calling getWallpaper() on the Activity) When this is installed on a 2.1 phone, that has live wallpaper, the live wallpaper is not returned by getWallpaper() , because it just returns a Drawable, and live ...

How to set desktop wallpaper and screen-saver?

How to set desktop wallpaper and screen-saver from cocoa app? ...

Showing Live Wallpaper in a 1.6 target app by detecting if it's a 2.1 device?

We're building an Android app with target SDK 1.6, so it will run on 1.6 devices and higher. We'd like to support Live Wallpapers, which we know is 2.1+ only. Is there a way to build one app with 1.6 SDK as the target, but detect if the device it's running on is 2.1, and only in that scenario call the live wallpaper API. We're trying ...

Clickable Background/Wallpeper For Advertising Purposes

I am in the middle of finished up a website and I am adding some features to it right now. One of the features I wanted to add was the ability to have a click-able background to display full page ads and promotions. This is what I have set up so far: #siteWrapper{ width:954px; margin:0 auto; top:0px; } This siteWrapper obv...

How to set android lock screen image

Hi, I'm just getting started with android programming, and want to see if there is a way to programmatically set the lock screen image. I've found various ways of setting the wallpaper in the API, but I can't seem to find the equivalent ways of setting the lock screen image. I've seen various posts saying that customising the lock scre...

HOw to set wallpaper in Android

Hi, I am using Android SDK 1.6....could someone tell me how to set an image as the wallpaper in the homescreen... getApplicationContext().setWallpaper(); seems to be not working for me... ...

How can we update the system wallpaper in an Android 1.6 service after changing it with setWallpaper()?

We are doing a simple service that changes the wallpaper when the phone (an SE xperia x10 mini) is tilted. So basically the code "almost" works - the problem is that the system does not appear to know that the system wallpaper have been changed or does not do anything about it. Starting and closing another app manually appears to enforce...

Put an application window as wallpaper

I'm looking to put an application window behind all other windows. I was thinking of using .NET 4 and WPF or Silverlight. I don't have any specific drawing code, I just want my application window as my desktop wallpaper while retaining the interactivity (no mucking around with screenshots etc). Is this even possible and if so, how? Ed...

Android Live Wallpaper touch events

Hi, I've just started with Android, I'm making a simple Live wallpaper. I'm testing it on a 2.1 emulator. The trouble is while it works in the preview screen before you choose "Set Wallpaper" the touch events don't appear to register on the screen once you've selected it as a wallpaper. Do I need to state anything in the manifest about ...

[android] setting wallpaper through code

hi Friends, I was trying to make an app which also had the facility to let user select wallpaper he would like to set. I have managed this by calling the Gallery Intent. Once the user selects a specific image, the data path of the image is returned to me which then i preview to the user by setting the image onto an imageview. The probl...