[Feature] Premium Feature: Custom Wallpaper Display Style

[Arcitec]

I have Projectivy Premium and I have a vision of the ideal app:

• Launcher Wallpaper: Selected Program
• Display Mode: Custom Style
• Custom Style Settings:
• Display: Two choices: Fill Screen (zooms and crops to make it cover the whole screen), Stretch to Fill (zooms but doesn't crop, instead it stretches the image and changes the aspect ratio to fill the screen without losing any cropped content)
• Blur: 40% (configurable slider)
• Automatic Crop/Stretch: Enabled (fit image to screen/fill screen)
• Fade: 30% (adds a GRADIENT black overlay to dim the bottom half of the background a bit; letting the top of the home screen (the space above the first row of buttons) be a bit brighter, and fading the wallpaper from the active row and downwards, so that the active row is always readable (the rows above the active row don't matter))
• Saturation: 80% (a slider to desaturate/add saturation)
• Contrast: 100% (a slider to increase/decrease contrast)
• Vignette: 10% (a slider to put a vignette around the image)
• Filter: None (would be options like Sepia, Monochrome, etc)
• Filter Settings: A submenu with settings for certain filters, like for example you might have a "neon glow" filter whose settings control how much glow that filter generates, etc)

This would make the wallpaper very impressive and responsive:

• The fade would ensure that the wallpaper doesn't overpower the UI.
• The blur ensures that the wallpaper doesn't take too much focus.
• The automatic crop/stretch ensures that it fills the screen.

I can draw a mockup of this later today.

[Arcitec]

This is what the launcher currently does. Wallpapers really overpower the image and look truly awful, so bad that I barely want to use any wallpapers in the launcher at all:

[Arcitec]

Here is a mockup of some adjustments via the Premium "Custom Style" wallpaper mode, with settings something like this:

• Display: Fill Screen
• Blur: 40%
• Fade: 30%
• Saturation: 100%
• Contrast: 100%
• Vignette: 0%
• Filter: None

[Arcitec]

Here's an example where settings would be something like this:

• Display: Fill Screen
• Blur: 40%
• Fade: 30%
• Saturation: 100%
• Contrast: 100%
• Vignette: 0%
• Filter: Old School
• Filter Settings:
  • Year: 1910 (totally black and white, very damaged/blurry image; has different presets for different "years" like 1960s etc)
  • Noise: 30%

[Arcitec]

Please excuse my ugly "poster" icons. I just slapped this together really fast. The point is:

Premium mode for Projectivy Launcher would finally have a killer-feature if you add a Custom Wallpaper Style mode.

A reason for people to spend money on your launcher. You deserve to make a living from this. And users deserve great wallpapers. It's win-win.

This feature would make it possible to make super cool wallpapers. And there's a ton of fun photo processing algorithms and filters that you could implement very easily since the internet is full of resources for that. :)

People could then do things like "pull wallpapers from Reddit and process them all to be monochrome, retro wallpapers" to get a really cool, uniform style.

Your launcher will really stand out at something very special if you implement this.

[Arcitec]

One more brilliant thing you could implement in Custom Style:

• Dynamic Tint: 0 - 100% (default 0%)

This adds a rendering layer on top of the wallpaper, with a pure color based on the dominant color of the currently selected tile.

The shader blend mode should be something that blends the color into the wallpaper in a natural looking way.

When the user switches tile, just animate the Hue of the tint overlay layer smoothly.

This way, you achieve dynamic background tinting based on selected tile. Which lays itself on top of the statically generated, custom background. Therefore using 0% extra CPU/GPU. :)