[App] Liquid Physics Live Wallpaper

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I made a quick port of Grant Kot's liquid simulator java applet and turned it into a live wallpaper.

It uses a ton of cpu so it will probably drain the battery pretty fast but it's fun to play with.

http://grantkot.com/MPM/Liquid.html

zip file contains the eclipse project with all the source code if anyone wants to do something with it

edit: - ignore the apk in this post and download quinbd's version a few posts down, it's much better

It runs slower than my pc; its not fullscreen.

Originally Posted by worker1

It runs slower than my pc; its not fullscreen.

Yeah I know. That's as fast as I could get it to run.

pretty sick

Nice! Would be nice if it reacted to phone movement.

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Originally Posted by ZekeWolf

Nice! Would be nice if it reacted to phone movement.

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I'm not really going to do anything further with this app so I've attached the source code to the first post if you want to do it

Update

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Hey, I took the liberty of adding some features

Updates: 1.0

• Fit to screen size
• Gravity follows phone
• Changed particle color :P

Update: 1.1

• Added options for number of particles and color

Update: 1.2

• Added a lot more options
• New "Blur" effect
• Gravity Sensitivity - (including zero gravity)
• Horizontal and vertical gravity inverts - (needed for some phones)
• Animation delay setting

Update: 1.3

• UI Improvements
• FPS Counter
• True support for horizontal and vertical screen views
• Particle Size Setting (Anything but 0 leads to very poor results)

Update: 1.5

• Put on Market for easy updating and sharing
• UI / Simulate Tweaks

Features in the works:

• Use OpenGL to render
• Use native code to calculate the physics
• More Fun Stuff

If you have any comments, bugs, or suggestions, please post them here!


*** Download ***
As this app is now on the Android Market, you can either find it by following the link or using the QR code.



http://www.quinndamerell.com/LiquidPhysics/

https://market.android.com/details?i....liquidphysics

All credit goes to the original poster and the creator of the water algorithm!

Enjoy

Originally Posted by quinbd

Hey, I took the liberty of adding some features

Updates:

• Fit to screen size
• Gravity follows phone
• Changed particle color :P

Here is the apk for now, I will repost the source later.

All credit goes to the original poster!

Enjoy

Thanks! I like your version better. I wish there was more particles but my phone just isn't fast enough.

Well, I hate Java and I love C/C++, so I might end up porting this to use JNI. This would probably be one of those areas where using C++ for particle movement could really make a big difference. Thank you.

Very cool.

I noticed you said it's "as fast as I could get it", but you're using postDelayed with 50ms intervals, which limits the refresh rate to 20Hz.
I changed that to 17ms, and added a simple fps display to test - it seems to max out around 30fps on my phone.