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  • 1440p screens aren’t ready for this, or vice-versa.

    It was nearly flawless on my Turbo, until I opened the app drawer. Then it had an ever so slight jank to it swiping through the first screen of apps and my OCD found it unacceptable.

  • Wow this is really a cool wallpaper app. You are right that you could potentially spend hours designing wallpaper themes. This will go great with my new moto x, the dark colored background look great on the amoled screen.

  • Hey Josh, can you tell us how did you get the effect shown in the photo above. I mean the colors in that preset, it looks really simple and elegant.

    • To be fair. Once you’ve found the right setting, matched the right color and shapes (based on your own preference, which will take a while) then you’ll be happy and won’t mess with it anymore. Not a bad thing, FWIW.

  • This would be good if it would allow different wallpapers for lock screen and home screen. Although thinking about it, is that even possible with Lollipop?

  • Misread this:

    “This wallpaper could easily gobble up a couple of hours of your [battery] life.”

    • You can actually design whatever you like, and then save them as flat images. The dev is on point here.

    • Under Settings, there’s an option to take a still image of a live wallpaper, and use it as a normal wallpaper.

    • I’ve posted static wallpapers for all of the themes I created as albums in my G+ profile. One of those is linked in the article.

  • was wondering if there is any live wallpaper with material design which changes according to weather?

    • I use material walls to pick from a ton of material design wallpapers. That part isn’t live. BUT I also downloaded Weatherback Live Wallpaper, which shows weather effects on top of your current wallpaper. The mix of the two gives what you’re looking for

  • Been using the free beta for a few weeks now and I can attest that it’s totally worth it. They released it just in time cause I’ve saved up 2 bucks in survey credit just for this.

    • Right? It’s like Kellen’s hand was actually on my screen…I tried cutting his nails.

      • YouTube is rolling out 60 fps playback for videos recorded at 60 fps. Before it played everything at 30 fps. One of my favorite new YouTube features, but not many people are talking about it.

      • Hah, they aren’t that long! Although, I did just crush an orange and one is showing it. Check out my right thumb. Yikes.

        60fps though. 🙂

  • I bought this app few days ago and i love it. I did turn off all the tilt shift effects. I haven’t notice any increase in battery usage. Love the randomizer. This app does add 4 shortcut icons to the app drawer.

    • You can hide the app drawer shortcuts if you don’t want them, first page in Minima Settings.

      • i know. I use the short cuts a lot actually. I was just giving the heads up. Keep up the great work!

  • Kellen sounds more impressed with this than Lollipop itself… 😛

    It does look impressive though. I’ll give go…

  • Crazy creative. might actually hop on this. If there are alot of adopters I would love yo see a post your home screen day minima exclusive

      • Don’t mind him. He makes it his life to post on EVERY N6-related (and in some cases non-N6-related) DL articles denigrating the N6, usually based off of internet articles and no personal real world experience. The N6 experiences no more and no less issues and bugs than any other flagship phone (except in regards to availability because of their agreement to sell the bulk of the phones through carriers).
        But he will get into a comment war in regards to Google vs Oppo. Probably envy but who knows, he also said a Nexus wouldn’t come to Verizon.

    • Actually the n6 has the best battery of any phone I’ve ever owned, g3, g2, s5, note 3, and multiple others, I love the battery life

      • Yeah, but it’s like… big and stuff, and also, something about small battery sizes and something else negative about cheap oled screens and stuff…

    • The battery life will be worse than you not using the live wallpaper, as is true with any live wallpaper. That being said, the efficiency will vary depending on which phone you use it on.

    • If you are on your home screen a lot then it will probably have an impact on battery. But it seems that it only kicks in when showing and freezes when the screen is locked of in another app. So I don’t think it uses much.

    • You won’t notice any battery drain, Minima doesn’t run when the screen is off or you’re using another full screen app. In fact, it doesn’t even appear in the battery usage list in your system settings.

  • Do live wallpapers still drain the battery noticeably? That’s why I’ve stayed away recently… Like for the past 5 years…

    • Minima will hardly touch your battery. All our live wallpapers turn off when you aren’t using them (screen lock, another full screen app, etc.). Give the free version a try and check System Settings / Battery list to see for yourself. It won’t even appear on the list.

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          -> RE­A­D H­E­R­E W­H­A­T I D­O <-

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        • I­­­­­’­v­­­­­­e b­­­­e­­­­e­­­n a­­­v­­­­e­r­­­a­­g­­i­­­n­­­g $­­­­­8­­­­­5­­­­/­­­­­h­­­­­­ s­­­­­i­­­n­­­c­­e i s­­­­­­t­­­­a­­r­­t­­­e­d f­­­­r­­e­­­e­­­l­­­a­­n­c­­­i­­­n­­g o­­­­v­­­­e­­­­r t­­­­­h­­­­­­e i­­n­­­t­­­e­­­r­­­n­­e­­­t h­­­­­a­­l­­­f a y­­­­e­­­­­­a­­r a­­­­­­g­­­o… M­­­­­­­y j­­­­o­­­­­­b i­­­­­s t­­­­­o w­­­­­o­­r­­­­­­­­­k a­­­­­­­­­t h­­­­­­o­­m­­­e f­­­e­­­­­w h­­­­r­­­­­­s e­­­­­v­­­­e­­­r­­­y d­­­­­­­a­­­­y a­­­­n­­­d d­­­­­­­­­­o s­­i­­­m­­p­­l­­­e j­­o­­­­b­­­­s i g­­­­­­e­­­­­t f­­­­r­­­o­­­­m t­­­­h­­­­­i­­­­s c­­­­­o­­­m­­­­­p­­a­­­­n­­­­y t­­­­­h­­­­­­a­­­­t i d­­­­­i­­­s­­­c­­­o­­v­­­e­­r­­e­­d o­­­­n­­-­l­­­i­­n­­­e… I a­­­­­­­m v­­­­e­­­­r­­y h­­­a­­­­p­­­­p­­­y t­­­­­­­o s­­­­­­­h­­­a­­­­­r­­­e t­­­­h­­­i­­­s t­­­­­o y­­­­o­­­u… i­­­­­­t­­’s a­­­­­­­n a­­­­­m­­­a­­z­­­i­n­­g j­­­o­­­­b
          -> RE­A­D H­E­R­E W­H­A­T I D­O <-

      • This thing is amazing. The layers you have put together with your parallax effect is just gorgeous. Very nice LWP!

    • Good LWP’s have never bothered battery much. I have only ever noticed drain from poorly coded 3D LWP’s that don’t suspend properly when your screen is off.

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