Android Development » wallpaper http://www.androiddevelopment.org Applications made for Android Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:41:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Android Wallpapers which connect to GPS and the Internet http://www.androiddevelopment.org/2010/02/09/android-wallpapers-which-connect-to-gps-and-the-internet/ http://www.androiddevelopment.org/2010/02/09/android-wallpapers-which-connect-to-gps-and-the-internet/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:24 +0000 patrick http://www.androiddevelopment.org/2010/02/09/android-wallpapers-which-connect-to-gps-and-the-internet/

I just read that article on the Android Developers Blog about Live Wallpapers.

The interesting fact in there – which many people might not know – are the possibilities what we developers can do with such live wallpapers. Just imagine you have a massive screen in the background of the phone desktop where you can do pretty much everything with. Kind of like a separate application, but the user will always see it behind his normal icons.

It is a very neat concept which you won’t find on the iPhone (afaik, you might want to correct me if I am wrong). Developers like you and me could show most recent stock info on there (check out Google Finance APIs), a list of the latest Google News or something else. You are only limited by your own imagination here. So hack attack and get freakin’ going! 8-)

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