AoE: 3D Earth Live Wallpaper

AeroShark333

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About this app

A highly customizable 3D Earth live wallpaper so you can adjust it to how you want it to look like! 🌍🌑☀️

Main features:

🌍 Earth
➤ 🌈 Polar lights (Aurora Borealis)
➤ 🌩️ (Live) lightning
➤ ⛅ Sun reflections
➤ ⛰️ Bumpmapping (height-mapping)
➤ ✨ Citylights (sparkling and glowing)
➤ ☁️ Clouds (with clouds shadows)
➤ 🌪️ Live clouds (needs internet connection)
➤ ☄️ Atmosphere
➤ 🌊 Ocean shading
➤ 🛰️ Current location display
➤ 🗺️ Flat Earth mode

☀️ Sun
➤ 🔎 Lens flare
➤ 💡 Lighting modes

🌑 Moon
➤ 🌕 Moon camera perspective mode

🌌 Background
➤ 🌟 3D Milky Way background (2D also possible)
➤ ⭐ Sparkling stars

👾 Graphics
➤ 🔺 Extremely high texture quality
➤ 🌐 Customizable model quality
➤ 🤖 Custom models

⌛ Physics
➤ 🕒 Real-time rotations of the Earth, Moon and Sun
➤ ⏳ High precision physics (and high accuracy)
➤ ⌚ Date/time text

📷 Camera
➤ 🔦 Field of view
➤ ↗️ Camera offset
➤ 🔁 Animation mode
➤ 🔄 Camera autorotation
➤ 🌎 Geosynchronous rotation
➤ 📍 Fix on location
➤ 👆 Rotations using touch input
➤ 📲 Launcher swipe input
➤ 🧭 Rotations using sensor(s) input

📱 Renderer
➤ 🎵 React to audio/music playback (Visualizer)
➤ 📝 Show custom text or time
➤ 🔋 Battery saving options

⚙️ Advanced
➤ 🔧 Many more tweakable options and features

Some words from the developer:
I made this live wallpaper application extremely customizable in the hope that users (who will be using this live wallpaper) can create the Earth Live Wallpaper to their own perspectives of how they want it to look like! Enjoy my creation! ^.^

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
[Q1] Why does the application need the Microphone permission?
[A1] So the Live Wallpaper can internally use the audio/music playback data for visualisation purposes (visualizer). The microphone is not used, however.
[Q2] What will change when I purchase a premium license?
[A2] All settings with a '[PRO]' tag will be unlocked. You are already allowed to try '[PRO]' settings, but these will not be applied when using the Live Wallpaper on the lock/homescreen
[Q3] Does the Live Wallpaper drain a lot of battery?
[A3] It depends the usage. The more the Live Wallpaper is on the foreground, the more battery it will consume. In most cases, Live Wallpapers use more battery than static wallpapers.

Permissions (all are optional):
Internet/Network -> Downloading live clouds + textures + live lightning data
Location -> Show location on the Earth in the Live Wallpaper
Microphone -> Live Wallpaper audio visualizer
Storage -> Loading/Writing/Saving custom textures/models/shaders from/to external storage and texture/geometry swap options

Credits:
jPCT-AE (http://www.jpct.net/)
Milkyway Photograph Image (https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/ and https://www.deviantart.com/darth-biomech/art/MilkyWay-galaxy-sphere-map-8k-746133328)
Starmap image (https://eleanorlutz.com/mapping-the-stars)
HSV-Alpha Color Picker (https://github.com/martin-stone/hsv-alpha-color-picker-android)
Textures (http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/)
Live clouds (http://xplanetclouds.com/ and https://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/)
Lightning data (https://www.blitzortung.org/)
Information sources (https://www.nasa.gov/, https://www.wikipedia.org/)

Please report ideas, suggestions, complaints, errors, bugs and glitches to
[e-mail] !

Ratings and reviews

Overall, I'm loving the app! The visuals are just stunning and the zoom in on the cities at night are beautiful! I only have one question and one suggestion. Regarding the live cloud pro setting. Is 1 or 360 the setting for updating every 30 minutes? My suggestion: Could you add a time and date for various saved locations? For example, having Tokyo, Chicago, Paris and Kuala Lulpur show a time and date on top of those locations. TerraTime has a feature like this. Keep up the awesome work!

Updating my review since the developer responded emails about issues and recommendations. I use this on Android TV but the controls sometimes don't work in the settings. I also think the app should have a better Earth spinning animation because it feels like the camera just pans around the Earth. The stars could also improve (more sparkly, and have just a black space with stars only, no space gas or dust). The default camera position doesn't work also, it always sets to Africa but I'm in US.

I have to change my review. I purchased this app and tried it out and it seemed to work perfect. I used the settings and had it just the way I liked. Then I woke up one morning and the screen was stuck in loading. I tried to restart my phone thinking it would reset but it went right back to the same screen. So I had to remove the app. I loved this app. Has a few bugs but it's a nice app

What's new

New Year update!
- Added: reporting of non-fatal crashes for further improving user experience
- Improved: X, Y, Z descriptions in settings
- Fixed: Live clouds transparency bug
- Fixed: Clouds in shadow transparency bug
- Fixed: Ambient Earth lighting
- Fixed: Other minor bugs/glitches/crashes