Live wallpapers in godot

[distantforest1]

Hi I was wondering if it was possible to get live wallpapers working for godot. It would be fantastic as I've wanted to make some visually stunning live wallpapers for a while now and I'm sure there are many people out there who'd like to do the same.

It should be theoretically be possible, here are some examples done in Unity and Libgdx. The libgdx one is probably more useful.

Unity Live wallpapers https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/Unity-Android-Live-Wallpaper

Libgdx live wallpaper https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/master/tests/gdx-tests-android/src/com/badlogic/gdx/tests/android/LiveWallpaper.java

I tried to have a go at it myself, but the code is a little over my head at the moment. What do you guys think?

[volzhs]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/godotengine/permalink/740260046110592/ there was someone actually made it in 2016. I think it's more like tutorial documentation, not a feature of engine.

[Chaosus]

If I understood it correctly its just an export manifest modification - then this can be done automatically by engine

[distantforest1]

If this is a tutorial documentation I would gladly help contribute, but I just need help getting there.

From what I can tell if I can get Godot to work on a WallpaperService.

package org.godotengine.godot;

import android.service.wallpaper.WallpaperService;

public class WallpaperTest extends WallpaperService {
    @Override
    public Engine onCreateEngine() {
        return new WallPaperEngine();
    }

    public class WallPaperEngine extends Engine {
        // How to get Godot to run here? 
    }
}

The possible candidates to put into the WallPaperEngine are these two:

• java/src/org/godotengine/godot/Godot.java This is an activity though, I'm not sure if we can run activities in Engines... or maybe we can?

• java/src/org/godotengine/godot/GodotView.java This one requires the the Godot actviity though public GodotView(Context context, GodotIO p_io, boolean p_use_gl3, boolean p_use_32_bits, boolean p_use_debug_opengl, Godot p_activity) {

If someone could provide me with a hint I would be ever so grateful. From what I can tell we just need to get godot working in a wallpaper service or in Engine.

[girng]

i think this is really use-case specific and would be better off as an addon

[The5-1]

I am entirely inexperienced with android and pretty new to Godot as well. But to me it appears to be a matter of providing a dedicated export template APK which starts a WallpaperService and in the WallpaperService's Engine, overriding the methods to call Godot inside of them rather than using the the passed SurfaceHolder. Like in the Unity example @keenfoong listed.

[The5-1]

Bumping this for 3.2. I am currently on 3.2 beta 1 and try to wrap my head around how to make use of the Godot activity inside a WallpaperService or rather WallpaperService.Engine. My first though was to just instantiate a Godot Activity inside my WallpaperService but not sure if that can even work. Since most members are private I can not access things like getSurface() or the GodotView anyways.

[johnnyjmcivorv]

bumping this. i would love to have live wallpaper support :)

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