https://market.android.com/details?id=dk.nindroid.rss'>Floating Image

Floating Image streams images from the web as well as from the device and displays them in a continuous stream of floating images across the display. A close Floating Image derivative is featured on the Archos 70 and 101 tablets as Photo Frame.

Developers: If you find this an enticing project feel free to contact me about continuing it, as I don't seem to get much work done on it these days.

If you experience problems, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE contact me, otherwise they will most probably remain!

If you feel compelled to donate some of your money, this is now also possible. It won't make me work more though, as I'm already very dedicated to this project - in fact, I might work less, as I'll be out spending your hard earned cash. However, I will appreciate it!

Please note that if you donate $1 Paypal will deduct 60%, if you donate $2 they will deduct 30%. I greatly appreciate the 40 cent I will receive, but in that case it might be better for you to find some friends who also want to support me - or to hope we'll meet at some point, and then buy me that beer (Please don't send it with the postal service, it's a horrible mess when I open it).

Recent activity:

11/02-2011: 3.4.13: * Fixed random crash.

11/02-2011: 3.4.12: * Show images from emails should work. * Fixed 500px bug when attempting to show a user's images.

01/02-2011 (ish): 3.4.11: * Read SMS permission added. I'm not spying on you! Floating Image needs this to read images from smssmsms'es! * Basic Photobucket added * RSS added * Option to choose where to save * Bug where images were saved in the same file fixed * A couple of other bugs fixed.

17/01-2011: 3.4.10: * Floating Gallery can open images from more places * Smooth jump on zoom out * Bugs fixed

25/12-2011: 3.4.8, 3.4.9: * Bugfixes

24/12-2011: 3.4.7: * 500px support! * Option to use all subfolders for a feed, autoinclude new ones. * A few minor bugs fixed.

19/12-2011: 3.4.5: * Fix bug where pictures weren't always shown, when returning to Floating Image. * Fixed a crash * Only subscribe to image files, not all images (like content://url)

18/12-2011 - even later: 3.4.3, 3.4.4 * Crash on new installs fixed. <-- The cause of the update! * Bounce back when zooming added. * Initial feeds activated properly

18/12-2011 + 30 minutes: 3.4.2 * Yet another Crashfix

18/12-2011 + 45 minutes: 3.4.1 * Crashfix * When swiping, you cannot select an empty image.

18/12-2011: 3.4.0 * Improvements to the gallery * Feeds are managed from the start screen * The gallery images no longer wrap around. * The gallery can be launched by clicking on images. * File browsing is changed to hopefully be less confusing. * Which subfolders to include when adding a local feed can be selected. * A warning is issued if no images are being showed (except for in wallpaper mode) * Pinch to zoom fixed on tablets.

05/12-2011: 3.3.1 * Bugfix

04/12-2011: 3.3.0 * Gallery mode moved to a separate launcher. * Selected image fades to high resolution. * When selecting next image in gallery, stream follows. * Sorting can be selected for each feed (name, date, random) * Auto select mode added (Not yet in live wallpaper) * Feeds can be renamed. * Backgrounds updated to 32bpp * Bugfixes. * Bugs (I'm sure, do tell)

A few bugfixes between these releases

29/10-2011: 3.2.0 * New gallery mode added. * Image loading is different which should resolve a LOT of memory issues! * Images no longer repeat themselves. (Woo!) * Slow loading images fade in. (More woo!) * Selecting/deselecting is now a single click. Double click yields the menu. * No longer supporting Android version 1.5. Actually this was in the last release, but I overlooked that. Oops!

A bunch of updates didn't make it to this site

08/05-2011: 3.0.1 * New movement: Mixup. A mix of the other modes, changing every other minute. * New languages: Russian, Korean, German, Spanish, Danish. * New Flickr feed: My favourites. * Mandatory bug fixes.

23/04-2011: 3.0.0 * New movements modes: * Either direction * Hyperspeed * Stack * Tabletop * Delete image - after many requests, and even a donation.

07/04-2011: 2.8.12 * Fixed live wallpaper / app issue when using all black background.

05/04-2011: 2.8.11 * If no "local" images are found, retry every 30 seconds (lowered from 120) * Graphical bugfixes * Available for all to play! (If you didn't have live wallpaper, no fun for you)

21/02-2011: 2.8.10 * More bugfixing.

20/02-2011: 2.8.9 * Fix bug in caching showing the wrong images. * Slight memory optimization. * Small internals reworking, doing things the right way.

09/02-2011: 2.8.8 * Fix Flickr sign-in bug (it was accidentally disabled).

01/02-2011: 2.8.7 * Wallpaper and App no longer share selected image sources.

01/02-2011: 2.8.6 * Live wallpaper rotations dependant on chosen screen, rather than touch movement. * When local feed appears empty, feed is refreshed in two minutes (Good for when sdcard is not ready). (Same as previous version, but now I tested it...) * A couple of bugfixes

23/01-2011: 2.8.5 * Live wallpaper, slight reaction to scrolling. * In app, up/down movement moves pictures slightly. * When feed appears empty, feed is refreshed in two minutes (Good for when sdcard is not ready). * Feeds are refreshed every other hour. * Live wallpaper settings separated from app settings. * Live wallpaper reacts to settings changes. * Bugfixes. * Bugs (probably, please report!)

16/01-2011: 2.8.4 * More bugfixes. * Infinite rewind, not just back to start. * Pure black background colour added.

11/01-2011: 2.8.3 * Picasa feed was broken, now it is not.

11/01-2011: 2.8.2 * Nasty snarling bug fixed.

11/01-2011: 2.8.1 * Nasty bug fixed.

11/01-2011: 2.8.0 * Long press on stream to pause. * Live wallpaper rotation decoupled from app * Single press to catch stream (no need to move your finger around any longer) * "Photos from here removed", as "coarse location" makes people uneasy... (I never know who, where og why you are!) * General bugfixes * Grand try/catch removed. Please report crashes!!

Language support

• Danish
• English
• German (Philipp Forsbach)
• Korean (Anonymous)
• Russian (Руслан Айнетдинов)
• Spanish (Rodolfo Hurtado)
• Czech (Jan Matys)

About

Floating Image is a spare time project to get some experience coding for mobile devices in general and the Android platform in specific. This has two large impacts on the project:

1. Development happens when I find the time, which can vary from every day to not at all.

2. The plans for the project are not set in stone, so if you have a really cool idea, I just might go for it.

Screenshots and Market info at https://market.android.com/details?id=dk.nindroid.rss'>Google Market.

Future plans:

• More image sources:

  • Stumpleupon

• Google search

• Webshots

• rss

• ~~Share images.~~ Tag several images, and share batch.

On hold:

• Screen lock replacement. (This has been requested time and again, but it seems Google is not too fond of letting people replace the screen lock. Because of this, I have decided to put this on hold, until I run out of ideas for other stuff I can shove into the program.)