Minima Live Wallpaper (Pro): A Classy Change

Even though we might be downloading various wallpaper/background images, changing them everyday to instill a sense of change in the UI, still wallpapers sometimes feel very stale at times.

Android does provide a set of 'live' wallpapers, providing eye-catching animations, but they use up the battery capacity at a very fast pace.

Thus, Minima brings forth their idea of what I would say: 'Semi-animated' wallpapers with complete customization control. So let's get started with the review:

• The app size is very small, i.e. 282 KB, considering others options such as Backgrounds HD and several free live wallpaper apps, are of around 10 MB+.
• There is no particular app icon in the app drawer, but instead there are 3 options of Minima Editor, Settings and Randomize. 

It does not provide nature, lighting or any other sort of live wallpaper. It provides a simple wallpaper with various overlapping shapes, with the option of editing the wallpaper in every aspect.  

The wallpapers are crisp, sharp with vibrant colours, shadows, effects and would look perfect on Nexus phones and will be perfectly in sync with Kitkat and Lollipop UIs

• Minima Settings:

   



















It provides the General settings of changing the theme(wallpaper), editing the theme, choose the         colours of the wallpapers, randomize wallpapers(will discuss later) etc. There are several wallpaper options you can choose from.

 How exactly is this a live wallpaper? 

        

        The liveliness of the wallpaper is reliant on the different gestures such as: Tilt, scroll, shift      effects. For example: If you tilt the phone left or right, on basis of the motion sensor statistics and movements, it will alter the shapes on the screen. 

• Minima Editor:

It is an option provided in the General settings but is provided as a seperate icon in the app drawer. It is used to customize the wallpaper.

The wallpaper is divided into several 'Selections'(i.e. Sections) so that every part is customizable.

1.You can add more layers. The new shapes which can be added are square and circle.
2.Alter the colour.
3.Change the axes w.r.t their position(X and Y axis).
4.Change amount of transparency and shadows(size and strength).
5.Alter rotation.     

Minima Randomize:

 

 Like many other wallpaper apps, it allows you to set a timer and alter the wallpapers.

The 'Auto-switch' feature ranges from 10 seconds to 7 days. A refresh button randomizes the wallpapers.

You can change the colours of the other randomizing wallpaers if you want.

By clicking the list option in the bottom-left corner, you can review the wallpaper. Same option is provided for Minima Editor.

After using this app for about 2 days, I did not notice much difference in my battery life, not to say that it does consume extra battery life especially when the Auto-switch time period is minimum. Also, the customizations are a little tedious and difficult to understand at first.

 The Pro Version is costed at Rs 122 but for those looking for a wallpaper change without any hassles, it is worth spending that kind of money.

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