Sparrow Live Wallpaper

Sparrow Live Wallpaper is a live wallpaper application for Android. It is a slideshow that retrieves photos about the birds, sparrow and finch, from Flickr and then shows the photos on screen sequentially. When all the retrieved photos have been shown, it will retrieve another set of photos.

There is an introduction to sparrow. You can access the wiki page in the settings screen.

In order to use this application, the internet connection has to be turned on. It supports the features as follows :

1. It uses your internet connection to retrieve the photos from Flickr, it will show a warning message if the internet connection is not available.
2. It does not require a user account to login.
3. The time interval between two consecutive photos is configurable.
4. User can specify the order of photos to show. There are two orders : sequential order and random order.
5. It supports scrolling and rotation. All are configurable.
6. It can be configured as one of the following scaling option :
. No scaling
. Make the whole photo centered inside the screen (centered).
. Make the photo to occupy the whole screen. Part of the photo will be clipped (Clipped).

7. It can show the title, owner name, taken date, the index number and total number of the photo. It is configurable by the user.
8. Double-tap to show the next photo. It is also configurable.
9. Supports the following transition effects :
. Shuffle
. Fade-in, fade-out
. Horizontal transition
. Vertical transition
. Diagonal transition
. Slide transition
. Scale transition
. Strip transition

It is configurable by user.

10. It retrieves the photos in a separate task, so there will be no negative impact on user's operations.

This application does not gather any information about the user. No personal identifiable information is collected or stored.

Images are copyright to their respective owners. Flickr is a trademark of Yahoo, Inc.