Implementing the Live Wallpaper Service
To implement a live wallpaper, we’ll use an Android service, which is a special type of application component that can be used to provide features to the rest of the system. Android provides the base live wallpaper implementation with WallpaperService, and to create a live wallpaper, all we need to do is extend this base class with our own custom implementation.[69]
Extending WallpaperService
Let’s start off by creating a new package called com.particles.android.wallpaper. In that new package, let’s create a new class called GLWallpaperService as follows:
| LiveWallpaper/src/com/particles/android/wallpaper/GLWallpaperService.java | |
| | public class GLWallpaperService extends WallpaperService { |
| | @Override ... |
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