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[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
So a normal dark Tint for both. And with 'Wallpaper Based' as the Theme i assume it's Blue? Does the same go for all the other places too? If so this is remarkable forethought considering it's Google we're talking about. They must have heard users complaints about the Tint and decided to encompass that in the Theme selection too.

This is actually better than i would have expected from the recent Google, so Bravo to them for that much at least.

Sorry, i know i've been a pain. Thanks for your input on this. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Attached image for when I choose that it's wallpaper based (using your wallpaper).

I don't see any difference...
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
And is that the same for Recents/Power Menu/Lockscreen etc? If so, that means they've removed the Wallpaper based color tint entirely. This is huge! :victory:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I don't get what is different.

You can try it out using the emulator on the PC.

Now Google finally supports PCs with AMD, and not just Intel.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
Check out these three screenshots. This is on my OP5 with Unofficial RR. ROM has setting to Disable Tints entirely. So in Recents:

Shot 1 - No Tint (Disabled)

Shot 2 - Dark Tint (LWP+)

Shot 3 - Wallpaper Based. (Blue Tint)

Which do you prefer?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I didn't even notice it till now that you show it to me. :)

The effect is so subtle...

Anyway, I don't see the wallpaper color change in recent tasks on my case on Android P.

Maybe they removed it.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
Let's hope colour tints are history!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I think they are, but I don't care if they add it as an option.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
That will never happen. Google don't do options. That's why we have custom ROMs. :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Well they added the option to force theme, without depending on wallpaper...

They also don't force you to use the new navigation gestures (and I prefer it without gestures, for many reasons).
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
Gestures are pointless if you're still stuck with the horrible Navigation Bar. A Bar that now can have an icon Left and Centre, but nothing on the Right... or Right and Centre but nothing on the Left. Completely horrid.

No such problems on my OP3T or OP5. Dedicated Capacitive Buttons had better come back into fashion in Five years time or i'm completely screwed! :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
The only advantage I see in dedicated capacitive buttons, is that they aren't accidentally being touched (by me at least) as often as on-display buttons.

About gestures, I think they are cool, but I don't use them because I see no advantage of using them. No extra functionality, not easier, not faster, not taking less space, not more intuitive...

But maybe other people like it.

As long as it's not the default, I think it's ok.
[Android Apps and Games] D@rekills4:
Updated to version 1.24.

Once again, no problems whatsoever.
[Android Apps and Games] D@rekills4:
I don't have a Pixel 2, could you tell me if the white wallpaper tints on the launcher are still present?

Like the ones I mentioned in this post: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76740460&postcount=46

Also, I have a request if possible.

Currently, there are two tints, a white one and a black one. With your app I can use a black tint on a white wallpaper which makes it look better as the black tint is barely visible.

You can already see the white one in the post I linked above, and I will attach a screenshot of the black tint (which is visible only if you use white wallpapers).

My request is that would it be possible to make the tint entirely transparent?

I know that it may look dirty on some wallpapers as the tint is moved upwards when you open the app drawer and it forms the translucent background of the app drawer but it would be nice to have a completely transparent option. Might look good with some wallpapers.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I don't think there is tinting anymore on Android P.

About the request, as I've written, I don't have any control of what the chosen colors will do. In my app, I just pass the colors to the OS, and it decides what to do with them, if at all.

There is an option on the recent versions that I've updated, to choose a transparent color. I didn't notice any difference when doing so, but since people requested and it was very easy to do, I added it. Maybe on some devices it will do something.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
You could post the same here too:

https://xdaforums.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to/dp4-t3811523

You might get more responses.

---------- Post added at 10:54 ---------- Previous post was at 10:47 ----------

I've had it confirmed that the Coloured Tinting is gone in DP4. You were correct.

The Transparency setting doesn't change the result at all for me.

Now that the Wallpaper coloured tint is gone in Android P, it struck me that this app could now be marketed in a different way. How about:

"Add Colourful Tints to your Android P Device"

or

" Enhance your accent colours by matching your App Drawer and other Android P elements to create a more colourful Theme"
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Post what exactly?

That my app is now working there?

The customized colors don't seem to affect anything now, unless you choose black or white, and this is already available in the settings screen of the OS itself.

About how to describe my app, I can't change to those texts. I can't promise anything.

The app only tells the OS : "here's the colors I have".

There is no guarantee of what the OS will do with those, if at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
It was a joke. "Now that colourful tints have been removed, here's how you can add them back"

Regardless, my suggestion to D@rekills4 is to ask in a Pixel thread whether the Launcher still has the white overlay at the bottom. As far as i know this is separate from the tinting system that's affected by your app. That overlay has found it's way into Launchers that are included in Oreo Custom ROMs too, (like Trebuchet for example), and is horrible.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Is there a downloadable launcher that you see the tint?

I don't see it on Nova and on Pixel launchers.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
It was only Pixel Launchers or Modded Launchers based upon it. If you don't have it now that's great. That means it was also removed. Perhaps Google fired the team that added all this junk in the first place. 8.0 was fine and then 8.1 brought with it Coloured Tints, Milky Overlays, Transparent Quick Settings Panel. Glad these things have been rectified.

How about for your next app, "Squarify" An app that turns all UI elements with rounded corners, back into proper squares? I would pay for that!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
You can already do it in the launcher, or at least in Nova Launcher. In fact, I chose not to have the extra background layer, at all.
[Android Apps and Games] coolmmp:
not work for me

hi ...

not work for me..

i think no need for now...

i got good one in play store (cm wallpaper).

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmwallpaper.hd
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
What doesn't work exactly?

Have you followed all instructions?

Also, the link you've provided is for normal wallpapers, meaning it doesn't provide you with a way to customize the colors at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Istoman:
Lost 15 minutes getting trolled by the app, when clicking on "Choose background image" I then select my wallpaper, the default vertical crop is perfect, no need to touch it, but there's no button to validate your selection, both top right buttons have the same behaviour : first tap make the crop horizontal, second tap validate (after making the crop horizontal). Same thing if you click on the left one then the right one, or vice-versa.

Gonna have to find some other way
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
There is a button to validate your selection. After you are done, there is an action item at the top that looks like an eye. Press it and you will see the current live wallpaper in full screen.

The top action items while you crop depend on the image. One is called "crop original" and does auto-cropping according to the resolution of the screen. The other crops according to what you've selected.

There is no way to put a validation here. Doesn't make sense because you see what's selected.

After you choose how it looks on one orientation, it asks you what to do on the other type of orientation.

I don't understand exactly what's the issue. Fine some other way to do what exactly?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I've updated the app in the recent days to use a new mechanism that will hopefully help me to support more types of content to show (such as GIF animation and maybe even video).

It seems it still has some issues.

One of them is that if you are on one type of content and switch to the other, it won't show the new content.

For this, as a workaround, do a force-stop on the app, and start it again.

I will fix it as soon as I can.

Sorry for the inconvenience .

EDIT: ok fixed and published new version.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Some bad news about the app:

While I'm been trying to figure out how to add GIF/WEBP/video support, I got an email from Google that the app was removed because I didn't explain why it requires admin privilege :

The app doesn't really require it (it's needed only if you choose you wish to lock the device upon double tap), but I've updated the description anyway, including screenshot to show it.

I hope the app will get back to the Play Store soon.

Sorry for the inconvenience .

EDIT: and it's back. Really appreciate Google for returning it so soon after putting what's needed. :)
[Android Apps and Games] t1m0thyj:
Your app sounds great, I really want to use it, but the Play Store link is still broken for me :( Is there another place I can download it from to sideload it?

EDIT: Oops, looks like I misunderstood the purpose of the app. It only works in Android 8.1, I was hoping it would bring the dark notification bar to 8.0.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Well you can try apps that make it look like they change the color of it, but not really do it, such as this one :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treydev.pns

Under the hood it just mimics (very nicely though) the notification drawer.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Sadly it seems the app was removed again, with the same exact explanation as before, even though I haven't changed anything.

I've checked a very popular app (Nova Launcher) that has a similar feature for locking the device upon a gesture, and it has a very similar explanation for it.

I hope Google will bring my app back. I really can't see anything wrong with what I wrote.

EDIT: It got back later.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Today I've finally published a new version with animated GIF as optional content.

Since it's very new, I've set it to show as "experimental", but I think it's good enough.

If you find any issue with it, please let me know.

I've also updated the FAQ about this, of course.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
I haven't tried it yet but wouldn't a Cinemagraph be perfect as a Wallpaper! :good:

http://cinemagraphs.com/

Thanks for the continued support. This app is still an essential part of my install.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I was actually searching this week for some nice GIF animation to update my video of the app, and some of them were of this type.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Privacy policy

I do not store anything of your device on any server. I don't even have or need a server for this app to function.

Everything this app does, it does locally on your own device.

All that is used is by/for ads of Admob by Google and from Firebase (Crashlytics/Analytics):

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US

https://firebase.google.com/terms
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
So the bad news. Pie ROMs have Wallpaper based Tints. Thought we'd seen the last of them. :mad:

The good news - LWP+ continues to do the same for me as it did on Oreo. Tints are fixed! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Can you please explain further?

I thought that Android P made my app quite useless about colors...

Can you please show screenshots of my app vs what the OS does ? Try to make obvious images, as "tint" seems to me like a very minor difference.
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
It's exactly the same as it was on Oreo. It's not a subtle difference as you can see in the images i posted here before:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76951784&postcount=55

Your App works the same on Pie ROMs as it did on Oreo. With Custom Colours enabled and Black, and with Light Theme selected in ROM, the only thing that changes for me are the Tints. (Notification Shade, Power Menu, Lockscreen, Rebooting screen)

Makes total sense as the Tints are based on Wallpaper colour and your app tricks the OS into thinking mine is Black, when it is in fact, Blue.

Strange thing is, i thought this Wallpaper based Tinting was gone. That's what i got from your feedback, and other Pixel users. So did they remove it on their own phones but leave it in AOSP?

The Theme options which are standard in ROMs now are usually:

1) Wallpaper Based

2) Light

3 Dark

You'd think that the Tints would only be used on Wallpaper Based, but apparently the only difference between option 1 and 2, is that option 2 doesn't theme the whole UI based on Wallpaper colour. (Light or Dark) Option 2 still seems to use the Wallpaper for Tint colour.

Google are half-assing it big time in AOSP. :mad:
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I see.

Glad you still find it useful :)
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
So what is the state of Wallpaper based Tints on Pixel phones now? You have one, right? If they still exist is it just with 'Wallpaper Based' selected as system theme, or is it the same on 'Light' too? Or are they not based on Wallpaper at all and just a neutral dark tint?

I wonder if [MENTION=272754]Eliminator[/MENTION] can shed any light on this. He included options in his OP5 RR ROM to remove Tints completely from all the places.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Well, actually currently I'm having this weird issue, which doesn't let me exit dark mode, even after I update the firmware, and even if I flash current one on top:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/119839521

I guess if factory reset will fix this, but I don't have the time and the will for this recently, because I really got tired of the bad way Android restores app, including with using Titanium backup app...
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Today I've finally published a new version that has scrolling-horizontal image.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, as this was quite a hard thing to accomplish...

Do note that this feature will work only if the launcher supports it and it's enabled.

For example, Nova launcher supports it, but it has a setting to disable it .
[Android Apps and Games] brodo:
Hey,

about that scrolling:

I used this app on a tablet with LOS 15.1, so it's a Trebuchet Launcher. My aim was to have the same background as before as well as the same scrolling behaviour.

Normally, when you select a background via trebuchet settings the image is cropped in a way that it scolls nicely in landscape and portrait mode. When I try the same with LWP+ it is barely possible to gain the same behaviour. Either it is scrolling only in portrait mode or I have to crop the image to a much wider format than 16:9 before selecting it in LWP+. How to crop it and to position the frame is a guessing game with (mostly) unsatisfying results.

Also there is some stuttering when swiping between panes which wasn't there before, maybe 20-25 fps (even after a while when everything should be settled and cached or so). It's a fairly old device (Xperia Tablet Z) though it runs smoothly most of the time. Maybe that's because of less compression of the backgound image? With solid background color everything is smooth again.

Hope that helps...
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Can you please share me the exact photo you try to have there, and the resolution of the device?
[Android Apps and Games] Dude+:
Moto G6

Been a long time user but this Moto G6 is not compatible. Tried 1.62 & 1.61 apk's but both have parsing problems. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
What do you mean "parsing problems" ?

Does it have Android 8.1 and above?
[Android Apps and Games] Dude+:
Oops! My bad, Android 8.0 is the best this Moto G6 has, for now. I'll give Power Shade a try. Thanks for the prompt reply, will certainly miss this app!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
The app is available on the Play Store. If the Play Store claims it's not available, it has a reason...
[Android Apps and Games] Aspharon:
Hey, did anyone else's custom colors break with the latest update that introduced the experimental flags? Because mine did.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Break how?

It should be as before as long as you've disabled using the flags.

Can you please describe the issue? What you do and what you expect, compared to what you had before?

Maybe there is a bug that I didn't notice...
[Android Apps and Games] Aspharon:
After updating, my phone went back to light mode, which is how I first discovered it. The purple accents I had before due to my primary color being set to purple are gone now, as well. Experimental flags are currently disabled, but I do get dark mode if I do enable the force dark theme flag, so the live wallpaper is working. I'm running a Nokia 6.1 on Android 9, if that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I see. Can you please send me the colors you used?

Can you please also check if dark mode gets enabled for you when you use darker colors, even pure black?
[Android Apps and Games] Aspharon:
I used #FF3B00B4 as my primary color, and #FF0F002E as both my secondary and tertiary color. Surprisingly enough, changing my tertiary color to #FF04000C, a slightly darker shade, is enough to put it back into dark mode, so I guess the update just slightly changed the requirements for dark mode? Somehow? My purple accents are also working again, but it could be that I wasn't noticing them as much in light mode. Either way, my problem has been fixed :)
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Oh, this was actually a bug that I fixed.

If you use 2 colors that are the same, the bug was that in some cases it will use just one color that is not any of what you chose, but a mix of them, which might have triggered dark theme (or the opposite).

The fix that I've added is that if such a thing occurs, I don't try to produce all 3 colors, but 2 (or 1 in case all 3 are the same), and if that doesn't help.

I hope that now it's true to the colors the user chooses.

I was hoping nobody would notice the difference...

BTW, have you also tried the dark text flag? Does it work for you?
[Android Apps and Games] Aspharon:
I have tried it, but I didn't see a difference.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
On my device it changed a lot of text colors on the lock screen, to be black.

Which device and Android version do you have?
[Android Apps and Games] Aspharon:
I'm using a Nokia 6.1 (TA-1043 to be exact, in case that matters) with Android 9. I see absolutely no difference between Force dark text on and off.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
OK. It's good then that I called those "experimental". I hope less people will write "it doesn't work" on the Play Store, after all the places that I wrote that I have no control over what will happen.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] h3110:
Thanks for the great tool.

But is it possible to adjust the double tap sensitivity or range? Currently it's too easy to trigger, even opening a shortcut after opening a folder can be recognized as double tap...
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I don't see an API for this. I use GestureDetectorCompat together with SimpleOnGestureListener. I think it uses what's on the OS.

But I'm also not sure what do you mean by "sensitivity". Can you please explain? You mean to make the time between the first press and the second? You mean you want to make it shorter?
[Android Apps and Games] h3110:
Yes the time between the first touch and the second touch. If that's not applicable, I can only think of some ideas like selecting certain area to trigger double tap?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I have some idea. I hope I will succeed.
[Android Apps and Games] h3110:
Thanks for your effort! Really need a way to avoid accidental trigger of the double tap gesture.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
OK published a new version with this setting. Hope you will like it.

Sadly though, this app doesn't get new users as it used to. In fact it's in a decline for some time.

I want to at least add a setting to support showing videos on it, but it's quite some work, and I prefer to focus on my other spare time apps.
[Android Apps and Games] h3110:
Tried it. Works perfectly. Currently set timeout to 60%.

I'm okay with some ads. Or let us know how can we support your dev. :)
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Well, as the only thing that seems sad for me is the decline of users, please consider trying out my other apps too (if it makes sense) and consider sharing them (and this one) with friends.
[Android Apps and Games] D@rekills4:
Once again, this app has come to our savior because Android 11 zooms in wallpapers but not live wallpapers.

Thank you @AndroidDeveloperLB.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I think I should put a new video for this app. Maybe when Android 12 will be out, its colors customization could be useful again.

Happy to see that even on Android 11 some people found it useful.
[Android Apps and Games] trex79:
Thanks 🙏 for this app it really helped me in android 12.1. Monet theme engine in a12 is really bad in my opinion for light theme. I hate the bad tint i always get in the background color so if you hate Monet like me use this app.

I hope you keep this app updated! Great work!
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
This is interesting. I only have Pixel device to test this feature. Can you please show me screenshots of before and after? I wonder how it's like on your Samsung Galaxy A12 ?
[Android Apps and Games] trex79:
I don't have a Samsung i have a rooted Xiaomi with light theme. In dark theme there is no problem with Monet.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Wait, Xiaomi supports Monet?

From Android 12, or from 12.1 ?
[Android Apps and Games] trex79:
Flashed custom ROM.. MIUI is crap so flash a custom ROM is a necessary thing you have to do... I'm using nusantara at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
So it has no official support for it yet?

Not even on 12.1 ?
[Android Apps and Games] trex79:
Android 12 for newest xiaomis phones but no support for money.. Android is planning for pushing it on all OEM but for now no support..
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Will 12.1 include it for all OEMs ?
[Android Apps and Games] Meteorman:
Is it correct that LWB+ runs as a background process? Is it also possible without a background process, i.e. only set once?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
It's a live wallpaper app. It needs to be ready right when you get back to the launcher UI or even show the recent tasks and transparent/floating apps.

Only on very poor hardware or on a very demanding task the OS will decide to kill it, just like it will do for a launcher.

So technically it should be in the background, ready for you. If you see that it uses battery when it shouldn't (meaning in the background, when you don't see it at all as something else completely covers it), please let me know, because it's a bug.