[APP] Lightwell Live Wallpaper

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dedeep

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Lightwell is a Live Wallpaper which displays
- Current Location address
- How long you stay there already (UNIQUE NEW FEATURE)
- Time and Date
- Battery Status
- Local weather information [BETA]
- Network status (WIFI, mobile) and traffic counter [BETA]

I am very glad to read feedback from you here. Especially regarding measuring the time how long you stay at your current location. Does it have some value to you?
To me sometimes it was useful, e.g. "how long am i working already"...

Free version in Android market

If you have problems downloading the APK, you can try this link. But please note: Android 2.1 required to support Live Wallpapers.
Download lightwell_free.apk

-didi

NEWS:

CHANGES

1.17
1.16
- Added custom wallpaper feauture to FREE version. Use any image of your gallery as your wallpaper behind the Lightwell data
- Fixed weather to use Yahoo data instead of unofficial Google "API"

1.15
1.14
1.13
- NEW font CabinSketch

1.12
1.11
FIXED Battery status. Now resetting history whenever AC power connected or disconnected.
NEW Headers can be turned off if user wants to see the values only.
FIXED Font is now also adjusted in horizontal direction. CONDENSED and BASIC mode looked ugly in previous versions if used in PORTRAIT mode.
NEW Feature Stay Awake. Wallpaper tries to keep display ON when charging phone. Can be useful if phone is used as clock during night.

V1.10
- NEW Screen styles CONDENSED and BASIC - better tablet support
- NEW Screen styles separately configurable for portrait and landscape orientation

V1.9
- FIXED Permission READ_PHONE_STATE required for Signal Strength on some phones
- FIXED Signal Strength is resetted correctly
- FIXED Bitmaps were loaded too often since last update

V1.8
- NEW Signal Strength for mobile network

V1.7
- NEW Style "basic" with new layout
- NEW Fonts (free: 2 fonts, paid: 10 fonts)
- Fixed location time "since 0" if no location provider is enabled

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V1.6
[2011-06-13] New feature (BETA): Mobile traffic since last reboot
[2011-06-13] New Language Translation: Spanish

http://dedee.de/lightwell

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Jon

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I like the concept. I installed the wallpaper and I will use it and see how the battery is affected if at all on my evo.

Would be nice of we could select any image as the wallpaper background. Could even go crazy with the customization by reordering things, different colors for each data set...weather option maybe.

Great work!! I look forward to seeing how this grows.

i can haz root
 
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Jon

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Jul 22, 2010
105
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Amdathlonuk said:
Seems to work okay....however it doesn't scale properly on my Dell Streak.

Only uses 3/4 of the screen vertically.
Width is fine.
Click to expand...
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Was actually just going to mention this too. Doesn't use up the whole screen on my evo, it actually seems to shrink sometimes and use even less vertical real estate

i can haz root
 
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matze91

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Jul 13, 2010
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As I´ve written in the market!
Keep on and this could be the base for something great - why? Because no oine really needs it and that´s often a feature of success ;)

If you need help with localization for German you can contact me (just see my other thread).
 
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wporta

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Apr 4, 2011
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Excellent!!..

Thanks for this.

Can you please attach the APK?.. (sometimes is better for me than going into the market)
 
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dodge3003

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Mar 6, 2011
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jhayes said:
I like the concept. I installed the wallpaper and I will use it and see how the battery is affected if at all on my evo.

Would be nice of we could select any image as the wallpaper background. Could even go crazy with the customization by reordering things, different colors for each data set...weather option maybe.

Great work!! I look forward to seeing how this grows.

i can haz root
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

With the pro version you can use your own pictures!
 
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tr6coug

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Oct 21, 2010
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Cool wall paper thanks:D. I would like to be able to select the size of the battery gauge and the clock. I don't think time at a location is very useful to me. Seconds on the clock would be a cool option too.
 
Xam335

Xam335

Member
May 3, 2008
9
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Looks very good!

Have you run some tests of battery drain?

It would be great if we could customize the emphasis of each category. I guess a lot of people would prefer to have a bigger time and smaller battery level.
 
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dedeep

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Nov 1, 2009
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Select your own wallpaper background image

Hello,

first i want to thank you for all your feedback. I am very happy about.

- Currently I have uploaded two different versions to the market. One free version and a 1 $ version which adds the feature of selecting an image of your own gallery.

- Regarding Dell Streak's display size I will do some research and try to fix soon.

- Battery usage: This was one of my primary goals when developing the wallpaper. Often this was the cause, I have removed a live wallpaper in the past and changed back to a standard image again. As you can see all the values are updated when you turn on the screen. When the display is turned off, the app will unregister from all broadcast receivers to sleep all the night without getting disturbed (wakeup) by any OS notification. Repaint calls were optimized. I cant ensure that it is perfect, but I spent some effort on this already. (My N1 with Cyanogen is providing me nice statistics about CPU/Battery usage)

Once again I am glad, if the app is being used and some people out there like it. :D

-didi
 
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engineer14

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Jul 2, 2009
230
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extremely smart and unique idea. Good Job DEDEEP. still testing it out on my Tmo Vibrant with custom Roms
 
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Jon

Senior Member
Jul 22, 2010
105
4
Connecticut
dedeep said:
Hello,

first i want to thank you for all your feedback. I am very happy about.

- Currently I have uploaded two different versions to the market. One free version and a 1 $ version which adds the feature of selecting an image of your own gallery.

- Regarding Dell Streak's display size I will do some research and try to fix soon.

- Battery usage: This was one of my primary goals when developing the wallpaper. Often this was the cause, I have removed a live wallpaper in the past and changed back to a standard image again. As you can see all the values are updated when you turn on the screen. When the display is turned off, the app will unregister from all broadcast receivers to sleep all the night without getting disturbed (wakeup) by any OS notification. Repaint calls were optimized. I cant ensure that it is perfect, but I spent some effort on this already. (My N1 with Cyanogen is providing me nice statistics about CPU/Battery usage)

Once again I am glad, if the app is being used and some people out there like it. :D

-didi
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

I apologize I didn't even see the paid version in the market, so I didn't know of the custom image feature.

I must say, I didn't notice any significant battery usage while the screen was off, certainly no change when the screen is sleeping, so it looks like that is working just fine.

Keep up the good work.;)
 
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    dedeep
    Lightwell is a Live Wallpaper which displays
    - Current Location address
    - How long you stay there already (UNIQUE NEW FEATURE)
    - Time and Date
    - Battery Status
    - Local weather information [BETA]
    - Network status (WIFI, mobile) and traffic counter [BETA]

    I am very glad to read feedback from you here. Especially regarding measuring the time how long you stay at your current location. Does it have some value to you?
    To me sometimes it was useful, e.g. "how long am i working already"...

    Free version in Android market

    If you have problems downloading the APK, you can try this link. But please note: Android 2.1 required to support Live Wallpapers.
    Download lightwell_free.apk

    -didi

    NEWS:

    CHANGES

    1.17
    1.16
    - Added custom wallpaper feauture to FREE version. Use any image of your gallery as your wallpaper behind the Lightwell data
    - Fixed weather to use Yahoo data instead of unofficial Google "API"

    1.15
    1.14
    1.13
    - NEW font CabinSketch

    1.12
    1.11
    FIXED Battery status. Now resetting history whenever AC power connected or disconnected.
    NEW Headers can be turned off if user wants to see the values only.
    FIXED Font is now also adjusted in horizontal direction. CONDENSED and BASIC mode looked ugly in previous versions if used in PORTRAIT mode.
    NEW Feature Stay Awake. Wallpaper tries to keep display ON when charging phone. Can be useful if phone is used as clock during night.

    V1.10
    - NEW Screen styles CONDENSED and BASIC - better tablet support
    - NEW Screen styles separately configurable for portrait and landscape orientation

    V1.9
    - FIXED Permission READ_PHONE_STATE required for Signal Strength on some phones
    - FIXED Signal Strength is resetted correctly
    - FIXED Bitmaps were loaded too often since last update

    V1.8
    - NEW Signal Strength for mobile network

    V1.7
    - NEW Style "basic" with new layout
    - NEW Fonts (free: 2 fonts, paid: 10 fonts)
    - Fixed location time "since 0" if no location provider is enabled

    device9.jpg
    device10.jpg


    V1.6
    [2011-06-13] New feature (BETA): Mobile traffic since last reboot
    [2011-06-13] New Language Translation: Spanish

    http://dedee.de/lightwell

    device6.jpg

    device4.jpg

    emulator1.jpg
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    matze91
    As I´ve written in the market!
    Keep on and this could be the base for something great - why? Because no oine really needs it and that´s often a feature of success ;)

    If you need help with localization for German you can contact me (just see my other thread).
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    dedeep
    Stay Awake Feature

    Nice idea :) Please have a look at my 1.11 (pre-)release. You need to download the APK from project site (see link below) and install. Checkout the new setting "Stay Awake". I will need to test this version for some time...

    http://dedee.de/lightwell/project

    cu,
    -didi
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