3D Pictures Live Wallpaper – customize your Android background with interactive 3D photo gallery
by Antonio Wells
Jan 16, 2013 5:01 PM –
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper is your very own photo gallery bouncing and rotating on interactive 3D shapes on your homescreen.
Price: Free
Tested on: LG Optimus G
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Watch your pictures bounce, rotate and morph in 3D space on your homescreen background!
- Many settings to tweak!
Cons
- Novelty live wallpaper app, may not suit everyone’s taste.
- Cannot set your own picture as the background in an aesthetically pleasing fashion.
- Photos do not gradually change up, you get the same set of limited phones.
Features:
3D Pictures Live Wallpaper puts your photos in 3D shapes that morph from cubes to spheres and back; then either float them or bounce them off each other on your homescreen. You can interact with the shapes too. One tap in an open area on your screen scatters the photo shapes. Two taps toggles the movement or freezes it. Three taps cycles through one of four preset background images; clouds, beach, hillside or plain black background. When enabled in the settings menu, four taps take a screenshot of your homescreen and saves it to the “Downloads” folder of your device (in my case it saved it to the root of the SD Card, so if you can’t find it in Downloads, check there.) When you press and hold a shape for five seconds, it sets the active picture as the background. However, I felt the squished and distorted image should have more visual polish and it looks rather bad. This feature is the app’s method of allowing you to technically use your own pictures in the background. 
In the settings menu where you delve into more customization, including:
- Set number of shapes.
- Select Gallery Directory (this is an area in need of user experience polish, meaning you should be able to select a gallery from a list rather than typing something like this manually “/mnt/sdcard/Pictures” non-tech folks won’t know that)
- Set blurry background image (here is where the app falls short as it misses an opportunity to allow you to truly set your own background picture and still have the floating shapes atop it.)
- Set whether the shapes collide or not.
- Set picture size and speed.
- Set borders and border colors.
- If your battery drains or you notice the animations stutter you can toggle the frames per second under Power Usage.
- Enable screen capture feature.
Watch on Mobile
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper on Homescreen
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper on Hillside Background
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper on Clouds
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper No Background
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Setting One of Images as Background Not So Great
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper in the List
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Settings
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Picture Size
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Picture Collisions
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Number of Shapes
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Gallery Location
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Border Color
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Blurry Background Image
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3D Pictures Live Wallpaper Set Power Usage
Usefulness:
Live wallpapers are a choice of preference, some love them as they add a whole new dimension of interactive personalization to a device, some do not have a desire for them.
Ease of Use:
3D Pictures Live Wallpaper is not difficult to set up, you just have to remember what the tap gestures entail. Delving into the Settings menu reveals all the goodies of the live wallpaper. Here’s how to get there…
Android Advice™ & Help: Setting Live Wallpapers:
- Long-press (hold for 2 or more seconds) anywhere on an empty space on the homescreen.
- Choose “Live Wallpaper”.
- Choose the wallpaper of choice.
- (If applicable) configure the wallpaper settings and preview your results.
- Tap “Set Wallpaper”.
Frequently Used:
If you install and set this app, you’ll gaze at it every time you unlock your device.
Interface:
Your pictures in floating morphing 3D shapes as your interactive background make up the interface. They show tiny previews in which you can interact with based on how many times you tap a free area of the screen.