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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
i wouldn't disturb "god" with it either... :-)

anyway, i believe the problem for some that the process gets killed more often then for others (like me) is that they have so many apps running that require more system resources (correct me if i am wrong).

that's why i said if you are in the market you are "really out there" because you can't control (as a dev) what is going on on everybody's phones... it's sad but true that there are some people that give bad comments (for example in the past for the wheather & clock widgets) that their widgets don't get updated because their task manager and what not killed the process

just my 2 cents

love this work, will keep supporting it
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
just downloaded and installed dev-version. wow it works perfect and so cool!

the moon is racing so fast :-) i wonder what's chasing him :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Market version updated.

It should fix most of the issues reported.

The code source have the beginning of the next new feature : animated starfield over the background.

I'm off from coding for one week, ski time !!! :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pzumk:
Have Fun!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] :
Is it possible to do some sort of atmosphere gradient so there's more of a smooth transition from the edge of the planet into space?

Like in this picture: http://titanium.sb.umd.umich.edu/apache2-default/dblawson/courses/c134/earth-atmosphere.jpg
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TurboTsi:
Animated starfield Yes!!! haha

Have fun sking bro, careful not to get frostbite!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] StOTTO:
finally the Death Star 2!!!! by far my fav wallpaper!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Worsty:
Perfect wallpaper for my deathstar to overlook.. :P
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MindChamber:
great wallpaper runs supersmooth on my droid

I love this wallpaper. deathstar1 doesn't show up for me. (Blank texture).

I also have a suggestion. You should make the texture maps customizible, (and for advanced users) making the actual models customizible as well. If you to reserve these last two options for say a full paid verion, you could have a whole little mod community just for that wall paper. And anyone that pays would benefit from possibly hundreds of models .
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pzumk:
I think he wants to add the option to set own images soon
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I checked with a couple of my friends as well. It looks like for the Droid (I don't know about the Milestone,) the Death Star I and Neptune maps don't load. I'm running a 2.1 rom and the others are running hacked a 2.0.1 that allows live wallpapers and non of us get an image.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Yes, it's known issue, but i identified the trouble and a fix will be released soon. I'm just back from hols, evolutions will be back ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] firehawkws7:
I thought holidays for devs were illegal in all countries, so us users could always get the sweet updates? :D Can't wait for future updates. By far my fav live wallpaper.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Dev version updated on the project page :

-animated starfield almost finished (settings unplugged yet, so always active)

-deathstar1 & Neptune map fixes for non nexus phones

-new maps : sun, callisto, titan, mustaphar

any feedback is welcome :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
I tried the dev version and it looks great, it seems the stars are causing screen swiping to lag. Def there is a performance impact. Great wallpaper though. Thanks again for ur hard work
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ToastyKen:
Hi, I love this wallpaper! Real-time Earth in particular is awesome. Just a couple of suggestions:

Sometimes, the real-time Earth doesn't load properly, and it either turns all shoehorn shows "loading". In these cases, can you instead remember the last successful feature download and continue displaying that instead of the broken texture?

When using real-time earth the moon notably lacks proper shading. I wider if it'd be possible to make the moon more accurate in that mode, too?

Thanks so much! I'll donate when I get home. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Hello,

i'm working on a proper physics for the moon, with real shading and real position around earth.

Regarding to the "loading" thing, it should work the way you say in the last version, the loading texture is suppose to be shown only on first launch or when there's a broken downloaded file.

I was busy adding an animated starfield in the background, now that the new ndk is out (and officially support GLES2.0) i'll be able to rewrite everything in native form and use GLSL shaders for the planets shading, so 'ill be able to do really nice atmosphere glows etc... It's a hard task but i'm more comfortable with pure C or ASM than java, so i guess i'll be able to do that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Any chance in the future to have a small Death Star rotating around the planet Yavin?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i haven't found a descent yavin map :( but if i find one, you'll have it !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
I will look forward to it should you find the map. What about a wireframe Death Star similar to this?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Updated to market, i improved the starfield so it is less laggy, corrected the maps for non n1 phones, added a few new maps, added an option to run the service in foreground (to avoid system kills but for a verry strange reason, even in foreground mode you get some :( )

@ prettyboy85712 : good idea, maybe with the gles2.0 version, as wireframe shaders are easy to write :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Background

Here is a nice background to use with Jupiter and the animated background turned on. As the background moves, it gives the illusion of the four main moons are orbiting the planet!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
can someone give me a feedback of the last update on a non nexus one phone ? i have some reports saying it is not opening anymore on droids !!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Actually, the dev version works great (with the exception of a couple landscape issues.) But the market version completely disappeared from my market! I've seen this happen with another program where it was in the market one day, but gone the next. I'm sure it has something to do with my build of 2.1. I'm going to try the newest build in the next day or two and see if that fixes things.

Do you think that you could put the latest market release on the sourcecode page?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i added something in the manifest file that tells the market to propose the app just for devices that support live wallpapers, maybe the rom you use is incomplete for this part.

I'm gonna publish a new version on market with the old manifest, but i need to tell people not to upgrade if they're on n1 or other offcial 2.1 (i think there's no other yet but i can be wrong)

thanks for reporting that.

--edit :

i'm uploading the current market release to the project page right now ;)

--edit again

i'm waiting a bit to see if your new build fix the problem but i hav a new version ready to push with as a bonus 4 cool star wars maps !! thanks to ruasoh for that and lots of other maps included.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I'm not happy with the rom choices at the moment and since I don't run a kitchen, I'm *most likely* going to stay with my current rom until I find one similar to what I have. I'm fine getting my updates from the website if I have to. I'm sure that there is probably another Droid user that has a more recent rom that can tell you if it's working or not if you still want to wait.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] frostman89:
Hmm doesn't show up on the market, just shows up under downloads, but I haven't seen any updates under market for a good week or two. I have a pretty old rom on my Droid, but I just add and edit stuff onto it as I please, I really haven't seen any new roms that have shown me anything mind blowing, worth upgrading to, that I can't manually add.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bluenile:
Thanks for adding the Starfield feature. It really looks cool. I am glad i suggested it :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Paul22000:
Thanks for this app! I love it! :D

I am not rich but I love this too much. Hope this helps your future work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Mycorrhiza:
Great Live Wallpaper loved it on my Milestone, but now I cannot find it in the market anymore :confused:

Where has it gone?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
In extremely simplified terms, the profile is now set for android 2.1. Since 2.1 is not officially on the Droid/Milestone yet, the market doesn't show it on those phones.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Mycorrhiza:
That is true in general but the script I have run also changed the build.prop to imitate 2.1. I can see other live wallpapers in the market and used to be able to also see the earth live wallpaper, but not anymore :S
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i think it is my bad,

i included this in the manifest, i think this is the cause, it will be removed in next update :

<uses-feature android:name="android.software.live_wallpaper" />

If you want, you can install from the project page.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Mycorrhiza:
Didn't find the project site prior to posting into this thread so thanx, now I got it and it's as pretty as I remembered it to be!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ssmithri:
Whole lot a shaking going on...

After this last update I find that the wallpaper seems stuck and it flickers back and forth (Realtime Earth and Clouds)... there is no rotation and it seems like it is just bouncing back and forth between two images.

When I edit the wallpaper, there is no background while in edit mode (just black). And when I click Set wallpaper it just goes back to the stuttering, but I can see the background.

If I switch to another wallpaper (ie. grass) and then switch back, the rotation is okay and I have no more stuttering/shaking, but the background is black.

Rebooting the phone fixes the situation, but I have had to reboot every day.

Any suggestions?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
I had no idea there was a thread for my favorite wallpaper. You asked for comments on non-nexus, so here goes.

I am running a droid, with a 2.1 ese53 build. I have played with a few launchers, helix and other 2.0.1 base builds. With the latest version, if I rotate the phone, and the launcher is set to rotate the home screen, your lwp goes bonkers. I get half a screen to the left with the wallpaper distorted, and the right side is blank. When I rotate back to vertical (non-landscape) the globe is distorted vertically, looking squeezed or egg shaped. This always happens, and sometimes it will fc. If I pop back into lwp settings, to your settings, even doing nothing and backing out will fix it.

My fix is to try and run a launcher that does not autorotate the home screen, only other apps like maps, browser, etc. Then I open the app, then slide out the keyboard or rotate the phone. Close the app before rotating back. Arctu's Helix launcher is a good fit, as you can toggle launcher rotation independant of app rotation settings.

I have not tried this with a true 2.1 launcher, as none seem terribly stable on the Droid, yet. The best fix is to have a launcher (2.0.1 base) that can toggle the homescreen rotation, independant of the "setting" rotate feature which should only affect open apps.

I love your work so much, that I place it above my choice of launcher, and work to figure how to get a launcher to cooperate.

Thank you for a fine product,

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
I've updated the dev version on the project page,

it should fix the rotaion problem on all phones (it does with my n1, helixlauncher2, cyanogen 5.0.4.1)

there's a few new star wars maps, and the ability to display the planet name.

Any feedback is welcome...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
@ssmithri :

yeah, i had this issue several times also, to avoid reboot, use a taskmanager and kill it !!

but it should be fixed in the current dev version (and so in next market release)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] trickskevry:
Still locking up on autorotate

I downloaded the latest from the project page SLWP-dev.apk r21.

After installation, I had another lock up when opening the keyboard on my Droid 2.1, requiring a kill to get it back.

Next time opening the keyboard caused the Earth to move to a corner and turn white, then it quickly moved back to the middle (still white) with the moon still revolving. Going into the Configure option (no changes made) got things back to working without needing a kill.

Tried one more time, locked up completely.

Sending logcats.

Thanks for the great work, keep it going! Sending donation...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chinpokomon:
I'd been using TerraTime for my G1, and when I moved to the N1, I was disappointed to see that it didn't have an updated Android 2.1 Live Wallpaper. This was a solid replacement for it. Now TerraTime was recently updated and it is vying for my currently showing live wallpaper.

For me, I think the nice bonuses of Earth Live Wallpaper is the orbiting moon. Very cool. But I think it also needs a shadow. Right now, the dark side of the Earth goes by and the whole screen is lit up by the "Always Full" moon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i published a new version that should stabilize the whole thing,

but i think there's still issues for droids specially when the keyboard is opened.

the only bug i have so far on my n1 running cyanogen 5.0.5 is a system kill when you type text in the search box or other overlayed dialogs.

I can't find any usefull infos in the logs nor using the debugger.

Even if i force the wallpaperservice to run in foreground, it is sometimes killed by the system, don't know why !

If someone have any clues about that, he's more than welcome.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
Did you release an executable. I checked your Google code page and I only see r22
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
I can confirm that the Droid on 2.1 still does not like landscape mode (or keyboard open) on the update. But with Helix Launcher, I set the Home screen to not autorotate in Helix settings and when opening an ap (or keyboard) the trick is to do so after entering the ap (which can still autolandscape in main phone settings). Then when closing the ap, first close the keyboard if open, then physically portrait the phone, then hit the home button.

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i published an update directly on the market, i will update the project page soon
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Will we eventually be seeing Alderaan?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I've been looking for it; but it's soo non-descriptive, it's difficult to say "this is Alderaan". I actually think that Yavin 4 is a good fit to have the Death Star around.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mbirth:
I also think this is the best wallpaper for Android devices.

But I had a little glitch: I have copied all data from the 4GB microSD to an 8GB one. After switching on my Nexus One, Live Earth (set to "live Earth+Clouds") was stuck at the "LOADING" texture. Even after EDGE and WLAN were there for 2 minutes, it didn't update. I had to kill the process and re-select the wallpaper - then it was fine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
So, I finally decided to try another rom. Now I'm running the Cyanogenmod 5.0.5 droid version. my old rom (I don't remember what it was, it was one of the first 2.1 roms) would run earthrot in landscape about 40-50% of the time. Now with my new rom, it just freezes the wallpaper. Hopefully in a couple weeks with the official rom we will be able to see if it's the phone or the program ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i think i got it !! it's a problem when swapping opengl contexts, i added a try/catch and it seem to do the trick

--edit

i've just pushed the binary of the dev version on the project page, feel free to test it, i think it is more stable now, the opengl thread is not crashing anymore !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I'm taking a few requests for maps if anyone has ideas. I have a Star Trek map pack and a Futurama map pack in the works. I may or may not be able to find or make a requested map, but I will try to get a couple of the more unique ideas created if I can.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
How about:

Planet Krypton

Dagobah

Bespin(not really a planet though)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dboftlp:
I have this installed, but when I got to Personalize -> Home wallpaper, your live wallpapers don't show up... Are these for Nexus One exclusively? I'm running Fresh 2.0c (Android 2.1) on CDMA HTC Hero.

TIA

-dboftlp
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I'm not sure if it's different with the Hero, but it should be menu > wallpaper > live wallpaper

@prettyboy

Krypton shouldn't be too hard, but I would need a reference photo. I've seen too many different versions of the planet. I recently came about a new way of creating maps, so Dagobah is a good possibility. Bespin *should* be fairly easy.

Remember, it will still be some time before these maps will be able to be added on to the wallpaper, as most will not be written into the program itself. I'll have more details after the dev gets the code written and working.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Found various images of Krypton here. LINK
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Found various images of Krypton here. LINK

Here is a fairly good image of Dagobah. LINK
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] StefanSarzio:
http://stefan.sarzio.de/2010/03/moderne-kunst-mit-dem-android-live.html#links

Modern art. :)

This happened after a crash followed by re-setting it as live wallpaper.

I guess it was I sure sign that a reboot every few weeks might be a good idea. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] webarnes:
I'm using Live Earth on a Nexus One with the live map (slow rotation speed, slide rotation turned on). (Great wallpaper by the way)

It's may be a really small issue, but whenever I turn on my phone, the map is centered on Asia. If I switch home screens, the map always reverts back to this state. I have nothing against the continent, but it's always night time there when I'm awake so I wind up with an unlit Earth as my background.

I'm not sure if the code dictates that the Earth always starts in a specific spot, but maybe you could randomize it or let the user choose an offset.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Jon8RFC:
On my Motorola Droid with Android 2.1-update1, when running in foreground (freezes otherwise when switching orientations), the background does not animate in landscape mode.

When switching from landscape mode to portrait mode (doesn't occur going from portrait to landscape), the background sometimes will have partially moved off the screen and a black area exists. Switching home screens solves this problem until orientation is changed again. This is an infrequent problem and I cannot consistently reproduce it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
New update released in the market
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
well it looks like there's still a lot of bugs with rotation on droids.

fixes is in progress and should be published soon, for now a have a version that works great on droid but not on N1, and the reverse :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i think it's now ok, i've pushed a new version on the market that should fix the freezes on droid
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jlevy73:
Wow, that is awesome. Really well done. Works perfectly on my N1. Donation definitely coming your way sir
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mrnexusone:
thanks i will try again in my n1, if the fc is resolved:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i've upgraded the dev version on the project page, it should fix all issues on droid and N1, can someone test it on a droid, i don't have one :(

thanks for the braves.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Give me about 30-45 min and I will do it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Beautiful! I threw everything I could think of at it to try to get it to freeze, and it came up spinning! I think you finally got it! Now can we start the fun part? I've got 24 maps waiting for SD support!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
I'll run it for awhile.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Just crashed on me. Logcat
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Thanks for these reports, i have troubles making it work correctly on both phones :( when it works fine for the droid, i have crashed on the n1 and when it's ok for the n1, it freezes on the droid :(

I'm gonna fix that, to be able to be back to the fun part with the 24 waiting maps :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I know that it'll be a pain to maintain, but worse case scenario, you could keep two versions in the market and label them for N1 (or maybe just "non-keyboard") and Droid or "with keyboard". And I'm about half way done with number 25 ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I can still use some map ideas. I got Krypton as well as the other requested maps done. I'f it's not super hard or really non-descript (it's kinda pointless to have 10 "earth-like" planets that all look the same,) I'll give it a go.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
updated to market with your new 20 maps :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] eug89:
New futurama's maps are really cool... it would be great to have futurama's moon orbiting around the Earth
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
That won't take much to add in. After all, I have it in my created version... I'm sure he can get Yavin 4 to orbit around Yavin as well ;) Thanks for adding the maps! I have a couple more maps done, but I'll wait until I get a few more done and send them to you.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
i've got lots of request for pandora from avatar. i have no idea what it should look like, so if you find something ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pjcforpres:
Not sure if it has been asked for, but the Cone Heads planet/Moon system, if any images exist that would work... plus, the Cone Heads are French!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
Ah, Remulak! If you can find me a pic or two, I'll see what I can do (I couldn't find any and I don't own the movie :( .) As for Pandora, I've seen a couple on Celestia, but since I don't own the movie yet, I can't verify their accuracy. I try very hard to ensure accuracy with the planets whenever possible. A lot of the maps on Celestia are nice looking, but very inaccurate. Take Naboo for example. The Celestia version of Naboo is the original one without clouds. It's kind of hard to imagine a planet with vast swamps and a aquatic core to have very little surface water! I try to take pictures from the movies first, and then supplement them with info from the books to have a planet as accurate as possible. Granted they are not perfect, but to most people they will do just fine. I will work on Pandora and get one done hopefully within a week :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
I have a couple of map requests from the Alien movies:

LV-426 and Fiorina 161
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
LV-426...That will be a challenge. I will see what I can do. So far the only pic I've found of Fiorina 161 is too in descriptive to tell what it looks like. If you can get me some more pics, that would be incredibly helpful.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
Hope these help. LINK
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] prettyboy85712:
One more map request. Planet Cybertron
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruasoh:
I guess I should be careful what I ask for! I've got my work cut out for me for a while I'll see what I can do with all of these and get them submitted.

and BTW, I got Polyphemus (the planet Pandora orbits around) done ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
hello all,

i've updated the SLWP-dev.apk on the project page. I badly need tests on this one with droids.

All was checked to trap all memory leaks and it works fine on n1 now with a way that should suite the droid too.

can someone test it and give me some feedback. Thanks !