Hi,

You cannot pause the live wallpaper from your app.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Erik Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am developing an application that uses a Home screen widget as its
> launching point. The application uses the Translucent theme to give
> the appearance of being integrated with the Home screen when active. I
> recently discovered that launching a translucent activity over a live
> wallpaper will not pause the wallpaper as a default-themed activity
> would. The wallpaper will continue to animate and slow down my app
> significantly due to its hoarding of CPU resources. Is there some way
> for a translucent app to tell the wallpaper service to pause? I
> understand that it is up to each individual live wallpaper to
> determine what to do when its onVisibilityChanged method is called.
> Assuming the method is implemented properly, might there be some way
> of indirectly calling it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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