June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
8h 42m
English
Ever since the early days of Android, users have been able to replace their device’s home screen background with a live wallpaper, a special type of application that can draw a dynamic and animated background. These live wallpapers have proven to be quite popular, with many of them going into the millions of downloads! In this chapter, you’ll learn how to implement your own live wallpaper using OpenGL and the same GLSurfaceView that we’ve been using to date.
Let’s take a look at our live wallpaper game plan:
We’ll first learn how to wrap our lighting project from the last chapter with a live wallpaper service and a customized GLSurfaceView.
We’ll then learn how to optimize the performance and battery usage. ...
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