A friend just turned me on to this app:
AnimGIF Live Wallpaper 2 Pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...RpcmV4YXIuYW5pbWdpZmxpdmV3YWxscGFwZXIycHJvIl0.
This live wallpaper lets you display animated GIF images (like cinemagraphs) in the background of your home screen.
Features:
* Consumes very little power and CPU, thanks to a custom built, highly optimized native GIF-decoder library
* All Android 2.1 (and later) devices are supported that can use live wallpapers
* All GIF files - including very large ones - are supported, no exceptions!
* You can select multiple GIF files to be played after each other, or to be shuffled randomly
* You can choose from a couple of image scaling modes to fit the images onto the screen
* Enhanced GIF file picker with thumbnail images to quickly find your favourite GIF-s
* This is the pro (or full) version of AnimGIF Live Wallpaper 2, without any watermark, however a lite version is also available with the watermark for free.
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GIF Camera by Listen5 is a great, free app to help anyone along with their LWP endeavors.
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Since I got my Arc, the blueish theme has annoyed me, so I decided to make a monochrome version (I called it All black earlier).
* HTC grey background in all views (se screenshot below)
* All grayscale frames
* White and grey progressbars (thanks to AdamTt for pointing me in right direction)
* CRT-off animation (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1109363)
* Grey dividers in phone and music
To-do:
* Change selected text background from yellow to grey
Tested and works with .145
Suggested widgets:
* Minimalistic Text
* Simple Calendar Widget
* ADW Launcher with TextIconCreator for ADW Theme
Note:
SemcGenericUxpRes.apk, SemcMusic.apk and SemcPhone.apk is compressed to Other.zip
For framework-res.apk and SemcGenericUxpRes.apk:
Move to /system, set permission, then move to /system/framework
For SemcMusic.apk and SemcPhone.apk:
Move to /system, set permission, then move to /system/app.
Thanks for the nice release! Look awesome!!
I've a little comment/ suggestion that is that possible to have the % battery icon in white color? If it's possible this is just perfect!
also another little request, can you also add the reboot option as well as the crt screen off animation..
Mind uploading the background seperately in a .jpg or something ? Cheers
animboo said:
also another little request, can you also add the reboot option as well as the crt screen off animation..
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Hi,
I haven't had the time to look in to it yet, but I very well may.
But please, feel free to enhance my theme - and when you do, don't forget to share
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Mind uploading the background seperately in a .jpg or something ? Cheers
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Hi,
the background is a common HTC background and is available for example here:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...wallpaper-fuer-das-nexus-s-htc-pattern_31.jpg
Cheers. I've been Googling it for 20 mins last night to no avail
how do you change the image that is behind the dialer ? and the one behind the settings ?
would like to know more so I can start playing with my own images, can you show me where to find them ?
I can find them but replacing them doesn't work
Can anyone recommend a application that you can use in place of setting a wallpaper the stock way. I have tried Wallpaper Wizardrii which allows me to crop the picture the way I would like, but I still get a black bar on the bottom and the wallpaper doesn't extend behind the notification bar. Any help is appreciated as this is incredibly annoying.
The big thing is to make sure your wallpaper is the right dimensions
Slithered from my HTC One X+
This is incredibly annoying on HTC Sense. It doesn't support scrollable wallpapers, it doesn't rotate into landscape mode (without a mod) so then why does it insist that I need to crop a perfectly fine 720x1280 image that should otherwise fit the screen just fine?
What apps do you use to force such an image as a wallpaper, without any gratuitous cropping? I just want a static image on all the screens, no scrolling, I don't care for landscape.
What about a fancier setup with a different static image on each screen? Possible with Sense, without using a different launcher?
I've tired multiple apps but none of them seem to work long term. The "solution" I've come up in the mean is making a Photoshop file with the dimensions of the phone in landscape mode and putting the image I would like add the wall paper in the center. Then save the file as a jpeg and download it to your phone. I don't really consider this as a "solution" as it should not take this much work to apply a simple wallpaper. For now this is the best I could come up with.
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Try "Simple Image Wallpaper Free".
It works great for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper&hl=de
What I use to apply images as wallpaper is an app called image 2 wallpaper. It's a free app and it's pretty good I hate how the stock wallpaper app does this weird zoom and splits the wallpaper 3 ways. Idk it's weird so I use that app and I'm pretty much happy with it
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I played with it a bit and it seems the key here is that at least when using Sense, the required wallpaper size is 1440x1280. Yes, that's 2 x 720 (the screen width). I'm guessing that's to allow for scrolling across screens and for landscape mode for launchers that support it. I looked at the stock Jelly Bean wallpapers and they are also exactly 1440x1280. Note that other launchers may have other size requirements and they have their own options to allow scrolling the wallpaper or not. The stock Sense launcher does not scroll the wallpaper or allow landscape and it has no preference to enable it.
So if you have an image that's exactly 720x1280 (as I tried to initially use), what apps such as Image2Wallpaper do is turn it into 1440x1280 by padding it with a solid color (border). You can play with the options and set a white border color for example and then save the image from Image2Wallpaper and look at it, it will be obvious what is going on. Of course, you can do all this yourself in a photo editing application and then set the wallpaper via the stock Gallery, making sure the crop rectangle is fully expanded.
I haven't tried "Simple Image Wallpaper" yet, that may work in a different way as it's implemented as a live wallpaper. I wonder if there's any impact on CPU and battery with using such an app as opposed to a static image.
There's also MultiPicture Live Wallpaper which allows cycling through an album and has plugin for some online services such as Picasa.
Bottom line is that the native wallpaper format is 1440x1280. Here are some nice ones in this size to get you started:
http://euphoricarythmia.com/showthread.php?t=31291
Image2Wallpaper is also valuable to see what the wallpaper and true screen size a device claims to have. Hit the "Info" option in the menu. E.g.:
HOX+:
Wallpaper size: 1440x1280 (with HTC Sense launcher)
Screen: 720x1280
Nexus 7:
Wallpaper size: 1406x1280 (with stock JB 4.2.2 launcher)
Screen: 800x1205
Weird numbers for the N7, I'm guessing because of the soft buttons menu bar.
Landscape Wallpaper is decent if you want to get scrolling wallpapers with the stock Sense launcher.
Here's what I settled on after playing with wallpapers for a couple of days:
Image2Wallpaper: the best app I found for dealing with static images. It has just the right options and lets you save a correct size image that you can later on set via a different app.
Landscape Wallpaper: great if you want scrollable wallpapers with HTC Sense launcher. Not perfect because of the Sense limitations, but good enough if you must have scrollable wallpapers.
MultiPicture Live Wallpaper: great app if you have a bunch of wallpapers and want to switch between them quickly to see what they look like (all you have to do is double-tap the screen in an empty area while your device is "live"). Also nice because you can set it to automatically change your wallpapers if you like that style of random wallpapers every few hours.
Every other app I've seen mentioned and I tried was not worth keeping installed.
I hope this helps someone. Unfortunately the only way to really understand how wallpapers work is to play with them for a bit.
Canvas Skew Icon Pack : You get mix of both artistic design and as well as Consistency .
Consistency of each icon is very important when it comes to this icon pack, however they are still made in a creative way to stand out.
There is also a Google+ community, where you can track progress of this pack.
Your ratings and review are very important. Make sure to leave them.
Google+ Link : https://plus.google.com/communities/...64281266807559
*How to use these?*
– You will need a custom launcher like Nova, Action, Smart, etc.
– Once this app is installed, jump to your launcher's settings and change icon pack to "canvas skew".
FEATURES
• 1200+ Custom Icons, dynamic calendar icons, icon back, icon mask
• Compatible with Multi Launcher
• Vector Graphics, Every Icons made Manually based on Vector
• Cloud based Wallpaper ( 10 walls with 2 different sizes: FHD (1080x1920) and HD (720x1280)
• Frequent Updates
DASHBOARD APP FEATURES
• Apply, 22 Launcher Cards, 13 Direct Apply, 6 Manual
• See & Search All Icons Included with Icon Name
• Smart Icon Request
• Cloud Based Wallpaper Picker
• Image Picker, Attach Icon from Dashboard App as an Image to Email, Hangouts, etc or Even Use it to Create Zooper Widget
• Help, Contains FAQs
RECOMMENDED ICON SIZES
• Nova Launcher (Prime): 115%
• Apex Launcher: 115%
• Go Launcher: Big
*** Go Launcher users! Icon Masking isn't supported by Go, So unthemed icons have a circle covering them.
*** To Fix them : Going to Preferences > Visual Settings > Under Icons, uncheck 'Show Icon Base'
*** LG Home may working unstable for some device. If you're not sure DON'T PURCHASE! No refund for this reason!
Support 22 major Launchers:
L
Lucid
GO
Next
Apex
Action Pro
Nova
ADW
Holo
Holo HD
Aviate
Smart
Mini
KK
Solo
Epic
Inspire
Nine
Atom
Nemus
S
TSF Shell
LG Home (read issue for this launcher above)
Themer
CM Theme Engine
Launchy Widget
Trebuchet
Unicon
And may be more that have icon pack support
Download:-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...rsh.CanvasSkew
Special Thanks:
- Dani Mahardika a.k.a daeva112 who provided the material dashboard
*** Canvas skew Icon Pack is using CandyBar dashboard, it is available as open source and free to use https://github.com/danimahardhika/candybar-library/
Hi all,
I would like to make a theme with my own animated wallpaper (in fact not really my own, it's an animated wallpaper from playstore).
The problem is: when I go to settints/themes, the wallpaper does not appear in the list...
Is there a way ?
Can you set pic as wallpaper from gallery?
I don't use stock launcher but can you press on home screen and select wallpaper?
Try themes then customize
The select home screen wallpaper.
From within playstore app can you set as wallpaper.
Well, I can customize theme with a wallpaper from the gallery (basically use a jpeg file), but I cannot use an animated wallpaper (eg. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matitechnique.LiveWallpaper_Traces_Lite), it just does not appear in the theme customization.
I have tried to set it manually, but the mate 20 just restore the theme's default wallpaper ever and ever...
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Well, I can customize theme with a wallpaper from the gallery (basically use a jpeg file), but I cannot use an animated wallpaper (eg. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matitechnique.LiveWallpaper_Traces_Lite), it just does not appear in the theme customization.
I have tried to set it manually, but the mate 20 just restore the theme's default wallpaper ever and ever...
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Can't help any further, I've downloaded the app from the link and can't get wallpaper to show in theme app etc.
binome said:
Well, I can customize theme with a wallpaper from the gallery (basically use a jpeg file), but I cannot use an animated wallpaper (eg. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matitechnique.LiveWallpaper_Traces_Lite), it just does not appear in the theme customization.
I have tried to set it manually, but the mate 20 just restore the theme's default wallpaper ever and ever...
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You're using an aplication. Of course it doesn't show in your gallery. Try making a GIF from that live wall, and try to add the gif. Otherwise i don't think you can do it. Basically you were trying to integrate an app in an app . Live wallpapers are apps, that renders a wallpapers, or gif's
Download Huawei theme tool from here https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/doc/30114
It's got the option for video wallpaper contained in a theme
Good day!
Is there a free good gallery app with no ads that can sort by filename?
Just found out that Google Photos doesn't support it.
Simple Gallery Pro
Simple Gallery Pro for Android is a local Google Photos alternative - gHacks Tech News
Simple Gallery Pro for Android is a well-designed photo management app for Android that could replace Google Photos on some devices.
www.ghacks.net
It's actually free now, no ads. Dunno how good it is, I'm using google photos, but it does have a 4.8 rating.
It's built in to Android. Settings > Storage > Images
Been using Simple Gallery pro for a few years and yes it does sort by filename
This what I use and it is supported right here on XDA.
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