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UndeadWallpaper - Turn any video on your phone into a seamless live wallpaper. 100% Free & FOSS. No bullshit
Turn any video on your phone into a seamless live wallpaper. 100% Free & FOSS. No bullshit This Kotlin project has 77 stars and 6 forks on GitHub. Topics: android, android-app, customization, exoplayer, exoplayer2.
Turn Any Android App Into a Lock Screen Widget â Here's How
Ever wanted to show your app's content right on the Android lock screen? Not just a notification â an actual interactive widget-like experience? AndroidAppLockscreen is an open-source library that lets you display any Android Activity on the lock screen. It's lightweight, easy to integrate, and works without root. Why This Matters Most apps lose engagement when the phone is locked. Users have to unlock, find the app, open it... by then they've moved on. With this library, your co...
Cross-Promote Your Android Apps for Free â No Ad Network Needed
If you have multiple Android apps, how do you get users from App A to try App B? The usual answer â pay for ads. But what if you could show your own ads inside your own apps for free? Meet HouseAds2 HouseAds2 is an open-source Android library for "house ads" â promotional banners and interstitials for your own apps, displayed within your existing apps. Think Google AdMob, but for YOUR other apps. How It Works Create a JSON config file (host anywhere â GitHub, your ser...
Build a Stunning "About Us" Page for Your Android App â OfficeAbout Library
Every Android app needs an "About" page. It shows your team, version info, social links, and open-source licenses. But building one from scratch every time? Tedious. OfficeAbout is an Android library that generates beautiful, Material Design "About Us" pages with just a few lines of code. No custom layouts, no XML headaches. What You Get Beautiful Material Design about page Team member profiles with photos and roles Social media links (GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) App versio...
TheActivity â The Android Library That Makes Permission Handling a One-Liner
If you've ever built an Android app, you know the pain of handling runtime permissions. Callbacks, onRequestPermissionsResult, checking if the user said "don't ask again" â it's a mess. TheActivity is an open-source Android library that simplifies ALL of this into clean, chainable one-liners. What It Does // Request permissions in one line TheActivity.getInstance().requestPermissions( Manifest.permission.CAMERA, Manifest.permission.RECORD_AUDIO ) { granted, denied ->...
Android Buttons Are Ugly by Default â BetterAndroidButton Fixes That
Let's be honest â the default Android Button is hideous. A flat rectangle with ALL CAPS text and zero personality. Every Material Design app ends up with custom button XML files scattered everywhere. BetterAndroidButton gives you beautiful, customizable buttons with a single XML tag. The Problem To make a decent-looking button in Android, you typically need: A custom shape drawable XML A color state list XML A ripple effect drawable Custom text styling Sometimes a separate file...
Common React Native Android autolinking issues and what to check
Autolinking in React Native is one of those things that feels invisible when it works and extremely confusing when it doesnât. When it breaks, the errors often do not clearly say: âautolinking failedâ or âthis package was not linked the way you expectedâ Instead, the build may fail with symptoms like: plugin or package resolution problems missing generated files configuration failures native modules not being found Android build errors that look like Gradle issues at first glance Tha...
Galaxy S26 FE hits Geekbench, reveals the chipset Samsung chose
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26 FE is now listed in the Geekbench online database, as someone in possession of a prototype has run the benchmark (version 6.2.2 to be precise). The phone managed a single-core score of 2,426 and a multi-core score of 8,004, as you can see from the screenshot below. The prototype in question has 8GB of RAM and runs Android 17. It's powered by the Exynos 2500 SoC. The Android version tells us the S26 FE isn't launching anytime soon, since Android 17 hasn't ev...