Material Islands™ - Semi-live
com.hippotech.materialislands
by Jenny Hanell
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About this app
Material Islands™ is a Minimal and Material design inspired semi-live wallpaper that does not drain your battery or eat up your RAM.
Material & Minimalistic
Choose among several different, individually unique and beautifully minimalistic islands for your homescreen. Feeling forest-y? 🌲 Go with Isle of Trees! Feeling that anger boiling? Maybe Isle of Lava is more fitting! 🔥 Sitting on the subway? 🚆 Isle of Urbanity is probably a good fit! More islands are constantly being worked on as the artist Jenny Hanell finds the time to do so.
Live wallpaper without the battery drain 🔋
From the very beginning Material Islands was built to have an as small as possible impact on both your RAM and battery. The islands are not doing any superfluous animations that make your device stutter but instead are silently updated in the background so that anytime there's a redraw ready it has already happened! Forget 60 FPS, with Material Islands it is more like a handful frames a day!
Daytime, Nighttime, Anytime 🌄🌃
Your chosen island follows you through the day! While you're getting ready in the morning the Isle of Ice is still warming up from the night. When you are leaving the office for the day it looks like the party at the Isle of Paradise has already started. When you are refreshing the stream of your social network of choice for the last time late at night the Isle of Sand has already long fallen asleep.
Superdupersharp
Every Material Island is rendered straight from raw code, pixel-by-pixel right on your device ensuring a supersharp experience.
Free, with paid upgrades
This core experience of the app is completely free and there are no ads. If you want to you can upgrade your experience by adding live weather to your islands with an in-app purchase. If you really want to support me you can also by me a beer or another beverage in the support tab of the app 🙂
Copyright notice
The artwork in this app is made by the developer and belongs to her. It is not allowed to use the images outside the scope of the app.
Material & Minimalistic
Choose among several different, individually unique and beautifully minimalistic islands for your homescreen. Feeling forest-y? 🌲 Go with Isle of Trees! Feeling that anger boiling? Maybe Isle of Lava is more fitting! 🔥 Sitting on the subway? 🚆 Isle of Urbanity is probably a good fit! More islands are constantly being worked on as the artist Jenny Hanell finds the time to do so.
Live wallpaper without the battery drain 🔋
From the very beginning Material Islands was built to have an as small as possible impact on both your RAM and battery. The islands are not doing any superfluous animations that make your device stutter but instead are silently updated in the background so that anytime there's a redraw ready it has already happened! Forget 60 FPS, with Material Islands it is more like a handful frames a day!
Daytime, Nighttime, Anytime 🌄🌃
Your chosen island follows you through the day! While you're getting ready in the morning the Isle of Ice is still warming up from the night. When you are leaving the office for the day it looks like the party at the Isle of Paradise has already started. When you are refreshing the stream of your social network of choice for the last time late at night the Isle of Sand has already long fallen asleep.
Superdupersharp
Every Material Island is rendered straight from raw code, pixel-by-pixel right on your device ensuring a supersharp experience.
Free, with paid upgrades
This core experience of the app is completely free and there are no ads. If you want to you can upgrade your experience by adding live weather to your islands with an in-app purchase. If you really want to support me you can also by me a beer or another beverage in the support tab of the app 🙂
Copyright notice
The artwork in this app is made by the developer and belongs to her. It is not allowed to use the images outside the scope of the app.
What's New
Location info:
Material Islands only asks for the device’s location if the setting “Use live weather” has been enabled, in order to provide weather functionality to the user as an addition to the live wallpaper backgrounds. Only longitude and latitude is being sent to MET Norway via an API, no other device specific data. If location data is disabled, the app will work just fine except for the weather feature.
Material Islands only asks for the device’s location if the setting “Use live weather” has been enabled, in order to provide weather functionality to the user as an addition to the live wallpaper backgrounds. Only longitude and latitude is being sent to MET Norway via an API, no other device specific data. If location data is disabled, the app will work just fine except for the weather feature.
App Information
Version Name
0.22
Version Code
22
File Size
5.9 MB
Minimum OS
Android 4.0.3+
Target SDK
Android 23
Developer
Jenny Hanell
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Content Rating
Everyone
Package Name
com.hippotech.materialislandsPermissions Required
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Recent Reviews
Gretchen
3.0★
I like the art, and that you can change the times at which the day-night schedule changes the lighting scheme. I keep the art on random so it's never boring. But even though I paid for it, the live weather does NOT work for me. I keep getting "not found for your area", no matter how many times I try it. I live in a fairly big city, with no wifi issues, so there's no reason it shouldn't work. I've emailed the devs but never got a reply. If this ever gets fixed, I'll give this more stars.
A Google user
1.0★
The wallpaper is just what I wanted. BUT, when I saw the live weather option available for purchase, I figured why not. But, it keeps telling me that no weather information was found for the current time. I have a pixel 3a running Android 10. I also sent you an email. Please have this fixed and/or issue me a refund. Thank you! EDIT: they briefly fixed the issue and even offered me a refund. However, I refreshed the location and the live weather functionality stopped working.. defaulting to sun.
Dylan
4.0★
Would give 5 stars if the weather worked!! I'll update to 5⭐ and donate a beer when it's fixed! I receive "No weather was found for the current location, default is sun" everytime. I tried automatic and setting coordinates, nothing works. The wallpapers are gorgeous though. I love that it changes with the time of day, and the user controls when. Note20 Ultra
A Google user
4.0★
Love it. So simple yet effective. Have been using it for years and just found it again a month ago. New isles added would be fantastic. I have one issue so far, I bought the live weather but it's not accurate. It tells me that there is no weather detected and default is sun, but it's snowing out heavily in my location. Please fix this issue. Will edit to 5 stars when it's fixed.
Wrynn
5.0★
Truly among the best of its genre of apps. With no intrusive ads, the ability to change the style of the island, as well as the timing of the background changes makes this a simple, but remarkable little background app. Doesn't take up too much memory, looks very clean and aesthetically pleasing, is free, and isn't even riddled with ads. Great work, developers! This is the kind of thing I love to see!
Nicolás Jurado R.
5.0★
Hi there! The app is amazing! The wallpapers are incredible... I've got some suggestions... I've seen that you only can choose time at an specific hour, and sometimes I wish it could have like more options of time, maybe with quarters of hours or something like that... Or an option that according to your location and the info of the time of the sunrise and sunset, the app automatically change the wallpapers Pd: I love the option of the Live Weather
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