Use a HTML page as Live Wallpaper in Android

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Adnan picture Adnan · Mar 5, 2011 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

Can I use a HTML page as a Live Wallpaper?
Or is it possible to capture a web page as an image and set it as a wallpaper?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer

Michael Haar picture Michael Haar · Mar 10, 2011

I am the author of the mentioned WebLiveWallpaper. It can use both techniques: Showing a web snapshot from snapr, webthumb, ... but normally it is really a WebView which has disadvantages but also some advantages. A web snapshot/thumb image cannot update animated images fast enough. But it avoids the problems a 'hacked' WebView in a live wallpaper has (like missing images, huge memory footprint).

I think what you want is using one of these: http://www.websnapr.com/ http://webthumb.bluga.net/home http://snapr.seekxl.de

They all have more and better documentation on their sites than I can put in here. Mostly it is simply a picture from their url with your key and some settings.

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