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Apr

[Download] Two Live Wallpapers From The Samsung Galaxy S II

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Galaxy S II, News

If you've been on the hunt for a new live wallpaper, then look no more - XDA member Rawat has gotten his hands on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II and pulled a couple of live wallpapers from it that are ready for use on any WVGA device. These install just like a regular .apk and do not require root access or any other system modifications in order to work.

The first one is a simple beach setting complete with sand and tide. It is time-aware, so as the day progresses the wallpaper will change accordingly.

The second one is similar to the first in its simplicity.

Apr

Photile Live Wallpaper Brings Your Existing Photos And Wallpapers To Life

Posted by Cameron Summerson in App Reviews, Applications, Apps/Games, News, Reviews, Videos

Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

I have seen a lot of live wallpapers and, truth be told, I'm generally not that impressed most of the time. Every once in a while, though, one comes along that is just so nice that I want to share it with everyone. This is one of those times.

Photile Live Wallpaper creates a LWP from any existing image. It adds a level of complexity to the images, while not overdoing it (a difficult task, I might add). It's elegant, smooth and beautiful. I could attempt to explain what it does exactly, but instead I will just share this video:

See what I mean?

Mar

Go Dev Team Releases 3 New Beautiful Live Wallpapers: Sakura Falling, 3D Skyrocket, And Hyperspace

Posted by Cameron Summerson in App Reviews, Applications, News, Reviews

Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

If there is one thing I love, it’s a nice, relaxing wallpaper. I do not want to see chaos when I look at my homescreen (or computer screen for that matter), and the Go Wallpaper Dev Team has delivered a solution that is both elegant and beautiful by way of three new live wallpapers – Sakura Falling, 3D Skyrocket, and Hyperspace. Because they use OpenGL, these are some of the smoothest, most realistic live wallpapers that I have ever seen.

Sakura Falling Live Wallpaper

By far the most relaxing of the three, the Sakura Falling live wallpaper features light pink flowers falling across a dark fuschia background.

Mar

Launcher Wall For Android Review: A Poor Man’s Windows Phone 7

Posted by Cameron Summerson in App Reviews, Applications, Reviews

Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

Are you one of the many that likes the look of Windows Phone 7, but doesn’t want to give up your existing launcher in lieu of a WP7 lookalike? If so, we have an app for you. It’s called Launcher Wall and feels similar to Windows Phone 7, without duplicating the interface.

Launcher Wall is an interactive live wallpaper comprised of customizable, animated tile-style icons with an animated background. It is pretty straightforward; each tile corresponds to a user defined app in which you can change the size, placement, angle, size, transparency, and animation. At the time of writing this, there is no way to change the tile image or disable all animations, so expect to see some movement even if the animation is turned all the way down.

Jan

Stylish And Flexible "Typography Wall" Clock/Date/Battery Live Wallpaper Enters Android Market

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

Truly stylish clock/date widgets of high quality are hard to come by, so whenever we see one released, we jump on it right away. Today's highlight is Typography Wall that was just released into the Android Market.

Typography Wall is actually a live wallpaper that comes with a variety of configurable elements, by default set up exactly the way you see below. You can use it without any modifications or jump right into changing things, from using your own background to changing transparency, rotation, blinking, positioning, and other aspects of each element. Such powerful customizations are made possible thanks to an absolutely brilliant OwnSkin framework that this LWP uses - in fact, it looks like anyone can create a live wallpaper using this free framework.

Oct

Super-Awesome Interactive Live Wallpaper: 3D Active Blocks

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Applications, Apps/Games, Development, News

Last Updated: October 29th, 2010

Given how popular live wallpaper (LWP) posts are, it's surprising that - with the exception of the Dancing Droid LWP - we haven't really had a big one since we found the R2-D2 set back in early September. Consider the dry spell over: meet the newest post-worthy LWP, 3D Active Blocks. The work of XDA-Devs member mmone3, the premise is simple: it takes pictures (either preset or pictures from your gallery) and breaks them into blocks; the blocks then break up, move, and transform (via various effects) into other pictures.

But the effect is cooler than that: the wallpaper is actually interactive, reacting to touch.

Oct

This Dancing Live Wallpaper Is Worth The Impact On Battery Life

Posted by Adam Litke in Applications

If you're like me, the one item on your phone that changes more than your partner's mind is your wallpaper. As a general rule of thumb, I don't use live wallpapers since they eat away at my Droid Incredible's battery so quickly, but today I found a live wallpaper that was worthy of a download and an installation just so I could show it off to my friends. The live wallpaper showcases our little green buddy dancing his heart out for our pleasure. See it in action below and download it from the source link if it catches your eye.

Source: xda-developers via Androinica

Aug

The Eye Escapes - Get Droid 2 Live Wallpapers On Your Android Phone

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Development, Droid 2, Motorola, Verizon Wireless

Last Updated: August 17th, 2010

It happened to the Droid X, it happened to the Galaxy S, and now it's happening to the Droid 2. The Droid 2's live wallpaper, the one with the evil red eye, has been extracted and is ready to be used on any other device running Android 2.0 or above.

Oh, and as if that wasn't enough, it now comes in nine versions, including:

the original wallpaper
modified versions called Evil Andy and Evil Grey Andy
a mod with the eye from the Droid X, only on the Droid 2's background image
a Cyanogen Mod themed one
a BlackDroid edition
a green theme
a gold theme
and a wallpaper where the eye is from the Droid 2 and the background is from the Droid X.