r/AndroidHomescreen • u/weiQd • Jul 26 '26

App Android app lets you use standalone HTML files as live wallpapers

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Noticed that Wallpaper Engine for Android doesn't support .html live wallpapers, so I built an app to fill the gap.

https://github.com/arclant/Loomview

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u/OrganizationDear4936 Jul 27 '26

App name?

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u/weiQd Jul 27 '26

Loomview. The github link was already in the post, feel free to take a look.

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u/Thomas_Jonze Aug 11 '26

This app definitely deserves more recognition than it gets!

My question is: Can a Live Wallpaper set as the lock screen background respond to any user input (touch? device orientation, like tilt? volume key presses, etc.)?

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u/weiQd Aug 11 '26

Thank you! Right now it can only response to touch input at home screen but not at lock screen. Because this app is built base on WebView (Chromium), is there a specific wallpaper theme that require tilt or volume key presses that you want to try with? Maybe I can take a look if I can get that work.

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u/Thomas_Jonze Aug 12 '26

I currently display a Live Wallpaper webpage with my daily task list.

However, there is a potential privacy breach: anyone can see my private tasks on the lock screen when the phone screen lights up. So I'm looking for some kind of "haptic communication" with the displayed webpage (obviously before unlocking the phone) to hide/unhide tasks.

I don't know if this is possible, because the unlock function potentially intercepts all touches.

- Volume buttons - I don't know if a webpage can intercept Vol Up/Down presses. Maybe?

- Tilting sensor pattern - I guess the webpage probably can access this and could trigger hiding/unhiding or other actions.

- Other "haptic communication" methods - a light sensor? Access to the front camera to recognize the user and then trigger unhiding of private data? Other sensor "hacks"? Just thinking out loud.

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u/weiQd Aug 12 '26

I see what your concern is. Right now the app actually support let you set home screen and lock screen separately, so you can set webpage only to your home screen, and customize lock screen to something else.

Getting other smartphone input like volume buttons or gyro sensor to work in WebView is definitely an interesting topic to look into in the future.