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Animated Weather Wallpapers perhaps..with 2.1

The issued a cease and desist to Beautiful Widgets for having animated weather widgets. The dev had to go through a lengthy review process before bringing the current one to market.

Yes, I know that. I have the "old" pre-C&D widget, and the new one. (I personally like the new one better.)

The OP asked if 2.1 would bring us a "similar animated weather wallpaper like on the hd2". I wouldn't see why not. As long as it is a different design. The problem with the old Beautiful Widgets is that it was a direct ripoff from HTC.
 
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HTC does not have a patent on animated widgets or wall papers. Beautiful Widgets was forced to change because they looked identical. Anyone one else can create animated weather widgets if it is technically possible.

As for the original question... There are already new animated wallpapers on the market place. It is not a stretch to think that animated wallpapers for weather will soon appear. Even if the functionality is not quite built in, it is not much more difficult than having multiple animated wallpapers available and having an app to change them based on a certain condition.
 
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HTC does not have a patent on animated widgets or wall papers. Beautiful Widgets was forced to change because they looked identical. Anyone one else can create animated weather widgets if it is technically possible.

As for the original question... There are already new animated wallpapers on the market place. It is not a stretch to think that animated wallpapers for weather will soon appear. Even if the functionality is not quite built in, it is not much more difficult than having multiple animated wallpapers available and having an app to change them based on a certain condition.

yeah that is what i was thinking..obviously it isnt going to come with the update like as a sense ad on as someone screamed in an earlier post..i simply was wondering if a developer could create something similar
 
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It is not a stretch to think that animated wallpapers for weather will soon appear. Even if the functionality is not quite built in, it is not much more difficult than having multiple animated wallpapers available and having an app to change them based on a certain condition.

Not a stretch at all. The 2.1 ROMs already have the live wallpapers that change throughout the day. Pretty cool stuff. But hopefully the official 2.1 release will be optimized enough to run the live wallpapers without bogging down the DROID.
 
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Absolutely, unequivocally, undoubtedly NO! Animated weather is a part of Sense UI created by HTC and is NOT native to anything on Android.

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Okay, I've searched EVERY possible word in the marketplace and I still can't find the animated wallpapers that people have made! What are you guys searching to find them? I want to download them so I will have them all ready for when 2.1 comes out!
Search "live wallpaper" . There are two freebies (a Matrix one and a Duck Hunt one). There are a few paid ones too.
 
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Absolutely, unequivocally, undoubtedly NO! Animated weather is a part of Sense UI created by HTC and is NOT native to anything on Android.


I beg to differ. Obviously it couldn't be made to look like the Sense, but there is no way at all that HTC can lay claim to any and every weather wallpaper which undoubtedly will come out. There wouldn't be legal grounds for it.


I believe weather wallpaper will be one of the first types of animated wallpaper we see being released.
 
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I beg to differ. Obviously it couldn't be made to look like the Sense, but there is no way at all that HTC can lay claim to any and every weather wallpaper which undoubtedly will come out. There wouldn't be legal grounds for it.


I believe weather wallpaper will be one of the first types of animated wallpaper we see being released.

I cannot wait for the live wallpapers for a matrix wallpaper(so cool this is already on market) or even some implementation of a weather wallpaper...2.1 is going to be gnarley
 
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I cannot wait for the live wallpapers for a matrix wallpaper(so cool this is already on market) or even some implementation of a weather wallpaper...2.1 is going to be gnarley


It is??? Where on the market? I can't find it!

I am running 2.1 right now. Live wallpapers make this flashed ROM lag a bit, but I'd love to run the Matrix wallpaper for a few seconds to show my iphone friends, lol
 
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And what about the G1? I did not pay $400 usd plus only to have it outdated in a year. Not that difficult to make a prigram to run the apps from the Sd Card so there will be enough space on the phone for the updates! As for the anomated desktops you will find them distractive apter a while BUT it they make some that moved slow and interesting it might be ok.
 
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