Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – LWP with lots of customization
by Paul Wilks
Jun 21, 2012 11:42 AM –
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper is a hugely customisable live wallpaper app for your Android device. Featuring 12 different themes and the ability to tweak these in a variety of different ways, it’s a fantastic app that adds a vibrancy to your homescreen.
Price: $0.99
Tested on: HTC One X
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- 12 different visual themes!
- Lots of customisation options!
- Let’s you blend different themes!
- Looks great!
Cons
- Wallpaper is not interactive.
- Unable to save custom wallpapers.
Features:
I think it’s fair to argue that, compared to most Live Wallpapers, Metaballs HD has a staggering level of customisation. The joy of this is that you can really make the wallpaper your own, and not just a carbon copy of everyone else who has downloaded it. Firstly, there are 12 themes to choose from. While these all look great on their own, they also provide a basic template for creating your own. You can choose: Burning Space, Melons At The Beach, Ghosts, Little Baby, Dark Shadows, Butterfly Magic, Wise Cat, Nibbler and Leela (from Futurama!), Metagalaxy, Minmalistic, Alien Planet and Flowers. What they all have in common is that they feature a rich background image with gloopy 3D balls floating and randomly converging in front of them.
Firstly, each ball theme can be imposed onto any of the background images, so you can have babies floating about in front of the Wise Cat or Nibbler in front of an Alien Planet. There are then several settings for the balls themselves; trajectory, number, speed, material, opacity and texture. You can also adjust their trail to give them a slightly different appearance. There are also a series of advanced and geeky settings which include; battery usage options, layout orientation, disable scrolling, surface grid and bounding boxes.
It’s very easy to set up and the app gives you a brilliant viewing pane so you know what you’re creating. Everything about the look and feel of the wallpaper is remarkably smooth and beautifully rendered. While wallpapers are arguably one of the most personal things about your Android experience and therefore subjective to taste, Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper is equipped with a variety of great options to suit all kinds of different preferences and works incredibly well.
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Select ball texture
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Select background
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Alien Planet theme
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Wise Cat theme
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Ghosts theme
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Preview and settings
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Nibbler and Leela theme
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Nibbler and Leela central
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Nibbler and Leela theme installed
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – LWP selection
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Material settings
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Theme choice
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – Geek stuff
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Metaballs HD Live Wallpaper – How to use
Usefulness:
For giving your Android a slick and crisp-looking Live Wallpaper, few apps deliver the same as Metaballs Live Wallpaper. With the host of customisations, you can really personalise the wallpaper to your own preferences.
Ease of Use:
The app gives you a great viewing pane and easy drop-down menus for adjusting. This makes it incredibly simple to use, it certainly made me wish more wallpapers were this intuitive. However, I was a bit disappointed to see you cannot save your customised wallpapers.
Frequently Used:
The wallpaper obviously runs in the background. How often you change the wallpaper, however, is entirely up to you. It is unfortunately it’s not an interactive wallpaper, so you cannot tap the balls to move them, etc.
Interface:
The interface is superb and really makes the app so simple to use. The menus are polished and detailed, making the whole thing look great.