Lucky Paper Lantern – Beautiful & Serene live wallpaper app
by Antonio Wells
Nov 6, 2012 1:43 PM –
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Lucky Paper Lantern is a serene live wallpaper app to gives a peaceful yet lively interactive background of a Chinese glowing lantern setting. There are a slew of settings you can control including; lantern type, background scenery, color, plus choose whether the lantern will be interactive and sway as you move your Android phone or tablet.
Price: Free, $0.99
Tested on: Samsung Galaxy S3, Nexus 7
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Beautiful and serene live wallpaper app to give a peaceful yet lively interactive background!
- Loads of settings!
- No noticeable battery drain!
Cons
Features:
Lucky Paper Lantern adds stunning beauty, Asian serenity and 3D interactivity to your Android’s background as a live wallpaper. You can choose from several lantern types, such as default Cylinder, Small Cylinder, Cube, Sphere, Panda, Dragon or the Android Robot. Additionally, you can choose which background; Village Street, Bamboo Forest, (Chinese) Characters, Floating Lamps, or Solid Black & White colors. You can choose from preset words to embed on your lantern; like Tiger, Dragon, or Hope. This live wallpaper app, brought to us by Thor Media who produces other stunning 3D or animated wallpapers, is loaded with features. Aside of those mentioned above, you can also dictate if your background will scroll back and forth, set it to randomly change colors, or add interactivity to it by allowing it to sway as you move your phone around or swipe it.
The free version restricts you to a choice of only two lantern types, two writings, no background scrolling, no random writing, no random colors, nor lantern color selection. See all of what you’re missing in the video and screens below…
In all it is a solid live wallpaper that does not appear to have any added battery drain, while still giving a unique experience as you unlock your device. 
Watch on Mobile
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Lucky Paper Lantern Live Wallpaper Background
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Lucky Paper Lantern on Lock Screen
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Lucky Paper Lantern Android Robot
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Lucky Paper Lantern Panda
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Lucky Paper Lantern Dragon
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Lucky Paper Lantern Cube
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Lucky Paper Lantern Sphere
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Lucky Paper Lantern Small Cylinder
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Lucky Paper Lantern Settings
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Lucky Paper Lantern List of Live Wallpapers
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Lucky Paper Lantern Choose Background Color
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Lucky Paper Lantern Lantern Type
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Lucky Paper Lantern Writing on Lantern
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Lucky Paper Lantern Background
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Lucky Paper Lantern Background Scroll Settings
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. As for the theme, again, this is a personal preference choice.
Ease of Use:
Lucky Paper Lantern is pretty straightforward app, really, poking around in the settings menu allows you to discover more options. Here’s how to setup a live wallpaper background app on most versions of Android…
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 configure, it will greet you every time you unlock your device or when viewing the home screen.
Interface:
This app is essentially all about the visuals. Though they may not be for everyone, for those it suits, it can be eye-popping peaceful aesthetics.