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Help With SharedPreference, For Android Live Wallpaper

Ok well I need help adding settings to choose which texture to show you should be able to tell what I mean because there are already two set up. i have the gui for the settings set up along with the activity I just can't figure out how to implement it. If you can help me I'll credit you in the app in the settings and the market post. Alo...

Picking an image for Wallpaper.

Hello all, I'm writing a live wallpaper and need some help. My wallpaper will create an effect over top of another image or existing wallpaper (not another live wallpaper) that the user chooses in the "Settings...". My problem is this: I can't find a way to list the static wallpapers or images on the phone. I've seen some examples...

Cropping Picture Issue on Droid X

I'm running into an issue with my program when trying to crop an image selected by the user from their gallery. The issue so far only appears when running on a Droid X, as running on the original moto Droid works fine. Basically the issue occurs as the cropping intent is being run. Once the user crops the photo and clicks the save butt...

Android live wallpaper doesn't seem to quit?

I've tried running a variety of live wallpapers. When I set a different one to be live, the old one still shows up in the adb shell when I type 'ps': app_37 12107 1870 125356 16932 ffffffff afe0da04 S fishnoodle.aquarium_free app_50 12196 1870 109620 16804 ffffffff afe0da04 S com.geekyouup.android.snowpaper My own one that I...

How to put a wallpaper inside an apk file?

I'm planning to release a nice clock widget and I'd like to include a pretty wallpaper with it (want to do this because previously got some comments like "can i get the matching wallpaper? ;)") So I tried to google on how to put some image file inside apk so that it would appear in wallpapers selection list after installation. I mean th...

Updating wallpaper service variables, from Settings Activity.

Hi All, In my live wallpaper app, I am facing this issue. I want to update my LiveWallpaper service with values that User types in the wallpaper settings activity. (e.g String) What I have done til now : Converted the wallpaper service to implment SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener interface, to listen if any changes d...

How to find out what cell phones support wallpapers

I have Adobe Device Central, and there I can see which phones support wallpapers, but I cannot export this list to another designer who needs to create the different sizes for my cell phone wallpapers. I know WURFL and its varying flavours can tell me this, but it seems I cannot do a search for only phones that support wallpapers and th...

Live wallpaper that can set wallpaper to itself?

Some phones seem to not have livewallpaperpicker.apk. Is there an API I can call from inside the app to set the live wallpaper to itself ? ...

launch browser intent in live wallpaper

I am trying to load BROWSER VIEW intent in android within onTouchEvent. Basically i have create a live wallpaper and if i click on it then i want to open BROWSER VIEW intent with a specified uri. i have tried following code inside onTouchEvent Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,...

Android Live Wallpaper - not showing background image?

Hi, I started implementation of android live wallpaper, following the examples and tutorials found on the internet, and I can't include png background as wallpaper. Also checked with similar problems here, and still can't make it work. This is the code: public class LiveWallpaper extends WallpaperService { /* IDs of recurces needed f...

Is it possible to consume events in android live wallpaper onTouchEvent()?

Hi. My live wallpaper is responding to touch events through the onTouchEvent() method, which works fine. The problem is: the home app also appears to be receiving these touch events, so if I swipe left in my wallpaper, the home screen also slides left. It'd be nice if it were possible for my wallpaper to selectively consume these event...

change wallpaper via iphone app

Does apple allows me to change the wallpaper of the iphone from my application? ...

Creating control in live wall paper

While my live wallpaper app is pulling data from the server, I want to draw a ProgressBar on top of my canvas. So far I got: ProgressBar pbar; @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); pbar = new ProgressBar(this); LayoutParams lp = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); pbar....

Android: How can I programmatically draw text on key guard screen / lock screen?

Is there a way to draw on or modify the key guard wallpaper programmatically? It looks simple enough for the home wallpaper, you can use WallpaperManager. But how about for the lock screen wallpaper? I would like to draw some text there. ...