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[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Hi there. Lot's of words already said about it. But the main question is still the same - why don't you use live wallpapers?

As for me, any scene's beauty just destroyed on the phone, because it's just too small. But i use lwps for tablets for sure, they are really make it more fascinating.

So, my friends and i desided to make some lwp for those users who do not actually use lwps at all.

The work took about 2 months and resulted in our new app Coloring Screen.

The idea is simple. We took photoshop color filters and photo effects and applied them to the current wallpaper (i mean static picture). The only way to do this was to create live wallpaper so this app is lwp.

We cared a lot about battery use and as a result Coloring Screen has almost no battery drain.

Also we added auto-pan feature for those devices that do not support wallpaper scrolling by default like SGS3.

We added more than 20 photo filters and color effects to easily adjust wallpaper:

Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange filters

Day time,Night time effects

Autumn, Winter, Sprint and Summer adjustments

Classik black&white, Sepia, Neon, Negative and more

We also added interactive animations:

Time of the day (darker, desaturated and more constrast at night, brighter at day)

Seasons (at autumn time wallpaper will look orange, at winter time - white, etc)

Weather (simple and beautiful rain, snow, sun, clouds, thunder and frost animations)

Dynamic/Random/Interactive coloring (for example, swiping the screen will change wallpaper colors)

Already available in Google Play

Please give me your sign and tell me what are you thinking about this app? Do you find it useful/cool/boring/etc.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] toxicpaulution:
Battery consumption. There you have your answer. No other reason behind it. Oh and memory consumption. There two good and viable answers.
[Android Apps and Games] andresrivas:
performance. even with a so called 'beast' specs, my atrix can't handle a lwp without too much lag everywhere...

Enviado desde mi MB860 usando Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] stereoblind:
Definitely battery/performance as said above.
[Android Apps and Games] saiz136:
It's just sad that many android phones supports Live Wallpapers, but the end-user always complain about battery drain and performance issues as well. I really like the idea of moving wallpapers wherever you go (Desktop & App Drawer), it's really an eye candy for anyone! Well I hope someday, someone might fix this. This is one of Android's most unique feature! ;)

Sent from my LG-P940
[Android Apps and Games] sanghaviraj:
I love live wallpaper, so does evrybody, but nobody uses it daily, only one major reason, battery,bcoz android itself is a battery drainer,so i use multi wallpaper,app from the market,i gives me multi wallpapers, for different screen,n the big plus is it doesn't even drain ur battery,until i get note 2 with bigger battery,i hv to be contended with static wallpaper,im giving ur app a try will report later
[Android Apps and Games] Taker18:
Drains the battery down

Sent from my Powerful HTC

Sensation with an exellent JellyBean Rom using XDA-Premium
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Battery life? I really dont understand.

Even if wallpaper drains battery, it's just about 1% of total power consumption (especially in compare with display or wifi/gps/internet usage). It means you are able to use your device for 5 minutes longer a day. It's completely ridiculous.

Btw, as i sad, Coloring Screen does not render anything in background if no weather animation. So battery usage is completely zero. It's behavior as like as regular wallpaper - render to buffer once then do nothing.
[Android Apps and Games] toxicpaulution:
But its still 1% same reason why I use zero Widgets. I keep my phone as simple as it gets. Minimum.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
WP8 solves this even better, no graphics, no widgets, no animations :)
[Android Apps and Games] G1032:
+1
[Android Apps and Games] ArcticFish:
Ecg is the live wallpaper

I don't think it's 1% D:

Sent from my SGH-T989 with Cyanogenmod 10 Alpha Power.
[Android Apps and Games] Profool:
I love how everyone is simply answering the OP's rhetorical question...

I'm using the cosmic flow (default on SXS) and it doesn't even appear on my battery list :P
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Yoy know i can create lwp for you. It will kill your battery in an hour. Want it?) Do not use bad coded lwps, thats all.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Its not. Here i promote my app )) (Coloring Screen). I think it may really become useful for those who hate lwps.
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
bet your phone looks sweet and exciting to look at.......:laugh:....but im only messing about, each to their own an all that. i on the other hand dont really give a rats about battery drain, mines maxed out with widgets, shortcuts, folders, clocks, everything....as well as lwp (sometimes). as long as i get 8 hours while im at work, im happy....cant wait to try this app, it looks right up my street.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] afilopou:
First of all congratulations for your applications(like panoramic screen :) )

Let me give it a try :)

I hate lwp because of battery consumption but i agree with your statement that if its bad coded it can kill your battery easily

update :Woooow.fantastic.hope to not kill battery and memory :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Kevets:
Coloring Screen is different and may be kinda nice but I'm not one to sit and stare at the screen, therefore I don't really care what the background looks like.
[Android Apps and Games] mushtafa:
I don't use them because of the lag they normally bring. It's not a lot but noticeable.

My next phone will probably be a quad core, so hopefully I can start using them again
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Thanks! Battery almost not affected. In advanced preferences category you can even find Battery Usage options that is set to 0.00% by default :laugh:

Memory depends on your current available memory. It requires over 11Mb for java and opengl contexts. But so far as android manages memory usage itself you can see much more in task manager because android do not kill apps immidiately. For example, when you have lwp on background and open our preview widget, memory usage doubles. In task manager they both called Coloring Screen so you see incorrect memory usage by the app.

If you'll have troubles just let me know!
[Android Apps and Games] cornelha:
Yes the question is rhetorical, but who stares at their homescreen all day? Not me. LWP uses cpu/gpu to render which in turns uses up the battery, even when running in the background its still doing something. Slap on a wallpaper and off you go. I dont even use widgets because for the most part i use my phone, not the stuff on the home screen. I might be alone in this, but still dont see the point of spending so much time on the perfect wallpaper setup.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
It's all true. Don't you feel a little busy? Wallpaper is all about relaxing and spirit. It's makes sense of feelings if you want!)

I am not crazy, it's true. What you see in background affects your underself. If you do not care about the background then may be you dont care about the whole background of the life. Anyway i understand you for sure.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Btw, an update will coming soon. I've found some troubles.

1. 'Dynamic colors' animation applies too slowly as it supposed to be (it's because our optimizations, be really do not render anything in background except scrolling and weather animations)

2. 'Random colors' sometimes stops to work after long phone sleep

If you experience any issues please report them by tapping email icon (in the middle of icons bar right under preview in settings, please see image attached). It would really help me to solve the problem fast.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Zer0w:
Well mostly about the battery drain, but if you have a tablet you don't have to worry about it.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
+1, i do speak that lwps are extremely good on tablets. Larger screen makes them much more beautiful.
[Android Apps and Games] Gusta_HR:
Ty for info.. now i know for sure that i will never buy windows phone :D
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
As so as i! Let's be friends bro!
[Android Apps and Games] Qbsti:
wow looks awesome. Gonna download and check how it works, and reports back!

galaxy ace running apocalypse final ROM
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Kills the LWP picker when clicking on settings... :(

LWP can be set from the launcher icon but I can't change any settings. I sent a crash report but I think that will go to Google not you because it was not your app that crashed although it did cause the crash.

CPU usage is the lowest I've ever seen for a LWP (2%) but I see absolutely no animation on the LWP so it may be doing nothing at all... could be related to problem above.

Galaxy Nexus 4.1.1 AOKP
[Android Apps and Games] frenzyboi:
This looks promising. I will have a go at it and check out the battery stats at (: will report bugs and all too don't worry!

By the way, only the premium features have the "change wallpaper according to time" features etc? ): I really love that.

Edit :

FC when I click settings on the live wallpaper menu.

Lags a little when I starts scrolling on the home page. But I guess its cos my lousy phone?

WOAH!

63Mb. No wonder my phone lags suddenly.

Anyway, the free version is just an app to change wallpapers you provided. It's not "live", isn't it?
[Android Apps and Games] kkruglov:
i don't use lw because of battery.. in most..

sometimes i enable them [when bought my android phone.. it was nice..la-la-la, but now i think that it's annoying..]
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Dont worry about memory usage. You have settings, lwp and instance from menu picker alive. So memory usage tripples.

I'am using Coloring Screen for myself too for a long time. Takes 20-25Mb of memory right now, but is android will need momory it will kill all unnecessary resources and memory usage will be lowered to ~10mb (it's opengl application context and cannot be reduced even more).

Will take a look on FC today after work. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Yeah, i get boring sometimes too. But still love lwps and machine graphics at all. Next a will create beautiful 3d scene lwp. Any suggestions? I am thinking about solar planets flyght like mars. Or zodiac scene.
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Well, you ask in your topic title why people don't use LWP's, here's my answer:

#1 - Most are horribly inefficient and prevent the CPU from idling. I use a LWP permanently and only use ones that allow the CPU to idle - this is very, very few (your's does allow idle - good work).

#2 - They're often far too distracting or colorful to be useful as a permanent background, they can be distracting and make text and widgets hard to read.

I use this one because it satisfies my criteria above. Not spectacular but subtle enough to be permanent for me whilst still showing off the great Android feature.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
The following issues just resolved:

#1 Fixed constant crashes of settings in android wallpaper picker in Coloring Screen

#2 Fixed error with 'purchase all' resulting in -50% adv. layer appear again and premium features settings dissapear

#3 Fixed an important error leading to constant crashes on some devices (including Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Infuse 4g and more)

Update will be available in several hours.
[Android Apps and Games] cornelha:
Why would I feel busy? When I dont use my phone, its on my desk sleeping lol
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Nevermind :cyclops: its ok
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
I'm really enjoying this live wallpaper. Bought the purchase all.

Can't wait for the update!
[Android Apps and Games] adin59:
going to try it thx
[Android Apps and Games] okmijnlp:
I don't use them because I can't find any I like. As for the battery, that's BS. As previously stated - well-coded ones will use <1% of your battery.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Try Coloring Screen.

It's not a normal lwp, it's mostly static image, but you can apply color effects and filters to it. I use it for myself to easily change background colors when get boring.

P.S. Without weather animations completely zero battery drain.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Guys, after update and if all problems are gone i would really appreciate your ratings/comments on Google Play.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Gusta_HR:
Not here. Still fc live picker when pressing settings! Sgs+ stock rom.

sent from the other side of my Galaxy :)
[Android Apps and Games] insanoshaman:
There simply aren't enough good ones out there to keep me interested. I found a few I really like but even after a while the same thing becomes mundane. The best one is that Mario 3 LWP it's pretty interesting for a while, but it is a battery slayer.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
It cannot be so. Reinstall the app, it would help.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
But this is true about anything. Videos, games, interests, etc. Wondering if there is something that can not bored people forever? I think not, because life is all about changing, motion, evolution.
[Android Apps and Games] insanoshaman:
Yeah but I don't have to play games or watch videos every time I use the phone, unlike the wallpaper. Those seem more entertainment than customization.
[Android Apps and Games] Gusta_HR:
How live is this wallpaper? It doesnt change anything on my screen!? I even bought weather transition for a $... lame!! Uninstall. In my country this is called robery ..we hang people for this. :)

sent from the other side of my Galaxy :)
[Android Apps and Games] frenzyboi:
This is "Live Wallpaper", only when you buy it. The free version is just normal wallpaper.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Ok, i said everything about animations and the content of the application. Animations are only available as premium features. This app was not supposed to be a battery killer and to be used by lwp haters :)

If you'd purchsed weather and see no animations thats because your current weather conditions were clear at the moment. Before the purchase you had to see weather animations preview, hadn't you?

Anyway, you could just tell me what's going wrong. I'm trying to help everyone and if i cant i make a refund :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
My only beef with this is that every time I reboot, I have to change to a regular wallpaper then back to this lwp so I can get back my effects.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Hm, never seen such an error before. Are you using stock launcher?
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Nope... using TSF Shell, Samsung Galaxy S3 rooted, Sprint version.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Same behavior with any other live wallpapers under it?
[Android Apps and Games] Gusta_HR:
How often does weather update? Which provider did you use?
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
AccuWeather.com

Once per hour
[Android Apps and Games] bogfather:
What effect kicks in at night time when your using the weather setting? It's pitch black outside but my screens still sunny

EDIT: I've now got clouds flowing across my screen, great lwp :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
All effects applies sequentially one after each other. First of all color filters apply. Then season. Then time of the day. Then all colors animations. Weather applies last of all and does not affect background except lighning.

You have too dark background because of the original picture is dark and you may have color corrections that reduce brightness. The solution is pretty simple. Click on settings on the right of time of the day and reduce opacity.

Weather applies independantly based on the last received forecast if it is enabled. You may have constantly enabled sun animation or there were problems with forecast. Check weather settings on the right.

Tell me how are you doing after a while. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] bogfather:
It's working great, went from sunny to clouds while I was rearranging my icons. It's not even showing in my battery stats which is what you want with a lwp. Keep up the good work :)
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Thanks, it is supposed to do not drain battery
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
Just upgraded to the full package, I think it's great.....
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Nope. This one just shows the wallpaper I selected without the effects I added. (Weather, time of day)

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Sounds strange. Try to uninstall, reboot and install it again. I've already fIxed that problem in last update. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Same deal. Gives me the wallpaper I picked minus my selected effects which are checked off in the settings.

Have to change my wallpaper to get it to work.

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Ok, please give some time to fix it, i have sgs3 too
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
No problem!

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
nice.....but issues

really like this lwp but im having issues. when it works, its looks pretty cool, but thats the issue.....when it works. when i set up how i want my screen to look, the lwp works for a while but after my phones been idle for a while, whenever i turn the screen back on, the live wall either fades to a total black screen or the original screen image i used for the lwp or a stock htc screen wall. sometimes the weather animations dissapear altogether. sometimes i cant even access the lwp in the lwp's menu screen, it just wont load up. i've uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times now and the same thing always happens....very unstable on my stock xe sensation.....i have a wallpaper changer app installed but thats all turned off so i dunno what could be the cause....as it is, this app is totally unusable on my phone at the moment, hopefully with updates all will be good.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
I dont have any troubles with it on my SGS3, Sensation, Desire HD and Galaxy Tab 7.7 at all. It works fine all the time for about two weeks.

Tomorrow i'll publish an update with extended logging and try to find and fix these errors. Whould appreciate if you send error reports from notification bar if any.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
That's cool ^^^^^^^^, really hope we can get to the bottom of this, it's a really good lwp...
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Guy, i've found and fixed several important issues reported. Appreciate your feedback! Update will be available soon.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Good news!

All reported issues were resolved!

Freezes, black screens and settings reset after reboot supposed to be history.

Update and tell me if it's ok now.

Thank you for your great support, guys!
[Android Apps and Games] jigglynuts:
Amazing app. Thanks a lot. It Is running flawlessly for me
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
If you like it i would appreciate your comments/ratings in google play. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Yeah, i almost forgot. Also added weather update period option.

Go to Premium -> Weather -> Settings. Default is 30 minutes now.
[Android Apps and Games] thyttel:
Got to say, just saw this post today and I took the plunge and thought what the hell and bought your app. Seriously it rocks:)

Can't wait to see what you got in the store for future updates, but app is well worth the money.
[Android Apps and Games] h3110:
Live Wallpaper is the most unpractical thing that Android system ever has.

It's laggy and has great consumption of battery and memory... but what it brings is just a little fancy look of your home screen.

I never used it, and I removed all the live wallpapers from my daily rom...

Still, I think this it a great live wallpaper, very innovating....
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Thanks, so please rate/comment in google play if not yet :)
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
working flawlessly sinse the update, i'll be using this for quiet some time. thank you.......good review left on google play :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Yes, works great now! Can't wait for it to start snowing here in New York! :)

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
You can simulate it. Turn off automatic weather and enable conditions you want like snow, clouds, etc. It looks amazing. Is a constructor of live scenes you like. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Niiice

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Update available!

I've added translation into German and Italian.

If you speak one of these languages, use the app and find a translation error, please let me know.

Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Guys, i've just created translation project on crowdin.net.

I need your help with translation into Spanish, German, Italian, French and Korean.

Actually Italian and German translations done already but they need to be spellchecked by native speaker.

So if you like to help me and this app please join this project on crowdin.net or feel free to PM me.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] adambika:
Drains battery extremely fast

I rather have a simple black background than a moving colourful which drains my battery very fast
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Hm, try to reboot your device and do not use settings widget for a long time.

Battery drain and memory usage may doubles or even tripples because of multiple instances have all the same app name.

So if you use settings a lot and then set the app as live wallpaper you will see battery drain stats for both of them in Task Manager.

Please let me know if situation will not change after a while, i'll have a precise look on it with your device configuration.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] thronnos:
On the older phones I don't use one because it uses too much RAM/BATTERY/MEMORY

On the newer phones (Evo LTE) i use one because I have plenty of memory and battery

Shifted from a Zombie Wasteland
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Hey guys!

I dont know how it happened but almost all of you were seeing Moscow weather instead of your current location.

I apologize of this issue (nobody notice me about it!).

Just updated:

Fixed multiple errors with weather animation

Fixed animation errors on Tegra3

Fixed issue with home location update

Slightly improved performance

Thanks for your great support! Special thanks to gurkensenf for German translation and purpleraintoxicity for Hebrew.
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Weird.. seem like it was showing my weather. It rain a lot today in New York City So it's was raining in my lwp..

Hm..

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Actually location was updating only if it changed a lot. I didnt ask android for location myself. And android reports location updates only if delta is huge.
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
Great update.... Love the new sun animation.. :)
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Hi, thanks, i'll wake it even better next weak ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
This app goes great with my wallpaper!

Thanks again!

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] Gamebasics:
Battery issues. That's it.
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Coming soon: night stars, fog and improoved sun! Current location, time and temperature! Stunning?)
[Android Apps and Games] bogfather:
Looking forward to it :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] donwhann:
Don't think I'll ever tire of your creation, it's awesome.... Looking forward to seeing the stars and fog, the updated sun looks stunning......
[Android Apps and Games] Hemidroids:
Get a flip phone:eek::rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Thanks, stars and fog will be ready till the end of the week :)
[Android Apps and Games] Mattix724:
Doesn't seem to be compatible with MIUI... the Play store won't let me download.
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Can't wait!

Sent from my SGS3
[Android Apps and Games] exisapps:
Updated to 1.3

+ New night stars and fog animations

+ New image crop selector

+ Improved graphics and performance

+ No more blurred images

+ Android 2.1-2.2 compatibility fix