My Little Town Live Wallpaper – customize & interact with your delightful town with this Live Wallpaper app
by Antonio Wells
Sep 11, 2012 10:07 AM –
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper is an animated and interactive live wallpaper background app for customizing your Android. It features a lively cartoon town with all sorts of things for your discovery. When it’s daytime your town is in daylight just as ambient darkness when night falls on your local time. Discover more in this review.
Price: Free, $0.99 for Full version
Tested on: Samsung Galaxy S3
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Uniquely different & cute live wallpaper app to personalize your Android!
- No noticeable battery drain or rise in device temperature (see explanation below.)
Cons
- Animation is not as fluid as in the video demo below.
- Rare force closure.
Features:
My Little Town Live Wallpaper has more than 40 little animations to discover and interact with; such as tapping signs to illuminate, balloons that float into the air, tap vehicles like police cars, cabs and buses to zip by, triggering snow or collect clouds to start rain showers. This background customization app comes in daytime and nighttime themes based on your local time. Plus you can configure the level of zoom known as “House size” in the settings menu; you will see more houses as you zoom out farther from the scene and, of course, see more of the vehicle and houses as you zoom in. Lastly, you can control the speed of the animation- fast or slow (I prefer the defaults, slower movement while most of the town is visible.)
One minor quirk that I noticed was the ever so slight jitters in the animation as it scrolled by. In the preview video below is seems super fluid, however, in my experience, and on a dual-core 2 GHz processing GS3 it stuttered every three or so seconds. You only really notice it when focusing on elements to tap and interact with. I do like the fact that the live wallpaper app it optimized for battery consumption and does not impact it at all. This is my typical hesitation with most live wallpaper apps as they are typically running in the background, hence my complaint in the recently reviewed Solar Power app. There was a noticeable battery drain plus it caused the phone to heat up for longer, this is not the case with My Little Town Live Wallpaper.
Lastly, there is a freebie version of this app as well as a paid version. Of course the freebie is limited in functionality, however, I would like to point out the optional use of an aggressive advertising network, Startapp, which places random ads in your notifications, randomly adds apps to your home screen and changes your web browser homepage to a fake Google search web page. I value the option the developers give to opt out (which most developers do not) of this by pressing the ‘Skip’ button, and I encourage you to skip it, I loath that ad network for their shady practices.
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 1
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 2
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 3
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 4
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 5
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 6
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 7
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 8
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper 9
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper at Night
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper in List of Live Wallpapers
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper Please Do Not Accept this and Skip It
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper Pitch to Get the Full Version
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper Force Close
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My Little Town Live Wallpaper Settings
Usefulness:
This is more of a personal preference as it offers a means to customize your device with a dainty and interactive town.
Ease of Use:
As I’ve stated, the default settings are optimal in my opinion, however, if you purchase the Pro version you can control interactivity, zoom level and speed of overall animation. You’ll find these in the live wallpaper settings upon preview. On most Android devices you get there by long-pressing an empty area on the homescreen and choosing Wallpapers » Live Wallpapers.
Frequently Used:
If you choose this app as your background then you would be greeted by it every time you unlock your phone.
Interface:
The background is a adorable scene exemplary of the cartoon style you find in young children’s books or TV shows. It may not suit all tastes.