Live Wallpaper As Activity Background

[treehousefrog]

Hey guys,

This has come up a number of times it seems, but I don't think there's been a resolution yet. I'm creating a homescreen launcher and I want to be able to set live wallpapers as the background.

This thread explains how to set static bitmaps that are the phone background: http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...-activity-background-current-wallpaper-2.html

Code looks like so:

Dim r As Reflector
Dim backg As Bitmap
Dim d As BitmapDrawable
backg.InitializeMutable(Activity.Width,Activity.Height)
d.Initialize(backg)
r.Target = r.RunStaticMethod("android.app.WallpaperManager", "getInstance", Array As Object(r.GetContext), Array As String("android.content.Context"))
Activity.Background = r.RunMethod("peekDrawable")

And from my explorations I think we need a surface view to host the live wallpaper? If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be hugely grateful - it's been one of those long days of surfing the web to no avail...

Thanks!

 

[Erel]

You can add this line to the manifest editor:

SetActivityAttribute(main, android:theme, @android:style/Theme.Wallpaper)

This will cause the wallpaper to appear as the activity background.
I think that this is the best you can do to show a live wallpaper in your activity.

 

[NeoTechni]

That works really well. Even responds to touch.

Is there any way to take control over the horizontal scrolling though?

 

[Erel]

I don't think so.