Monday, October 3, 2011

Desktop Ponies Join the Android Army

This fandom never ceases to amaze me.  There are so many pony apps popping up, we really do cover pretty much every skillset out there.  No platform is too complicated!

This is a new desktop pony app for Android.  It is suggested that you don't exceed more than 6 at a time (Phones don't like too many ponies running around).  Simply visit this page on your android device to install it for free, then download the actual ponies within the app. Once you finish that off, hit up your "Settings / Personalization / Wallpaper / Live wallpaper" section on the phone to cover your home screen in ponies. 

78 comments:

Floof Cat said...

Wake me up when it's released for iOS.

Xiagu said...

Man, now I wish my phone didn't totally /suck./

Octavia said...

Oooh, awesome! I love the ponies on my desktop. They should be everywhere. :D

Tsitra360 said...

It would be fun for a little bit but I would take it off because I prefer a long battery life.

cursormortis said...

Man, this is great. Nothing like carrying around a few adorable little friends in your pocket.

M1Abrams said...

Don't get me wrong that would be awesome, but I use my phone for work and they would kinda get distracting. Not only that, but Discord currently takes up my background. And he is quite comfortable there!

Flutterlove said...

Downloaded this a few days ago. Runs great on my Nexus S. Don't run it very often since it drains my battery.

Nilsareth said...

I now regret not getting a smartphone

Roman500 said...

Finally for the Android. Took long enough.

no_space said...

@M1
You can put them over an existing background, if you'd like, as well as control their size, so they don't get in the way as much.

I've actually had this for about a week now, after I stumbled across it searching for that Pocket Rainbow Dash thing. There's a few issues with just getting them all to run, and every now and then Luna likes to get stuck stuttering in a corner, but overall it's fantastic.

Cobalt said...

Rainbow flies around and Scootaloo looks on in an awed expression. D'awww <333

Emma said...

why not for iOS

ElectricZoNe said...

I should install this on my dads Android when hes not looking lol.

If some one could upload a video of this working that would be great.

instantrainbow said...

How ironic. It's for droids, yet the header has an iphone.

Bronyboi said...

PLEASE PLEASE PPLLLLLLEEEAAASSSEEE make it for the iphone 4

Fallin' Winter said...

Curse all you amazing ponyfolk out there! You've just made the wait for my Bionic that much harder. I want to see how much pony a duo core processor can handle!

instantrainbow said...

Why are Pinkie's files more than four-times the size of everypony else's?

And it kept trying to force me to delete Sweetie Belle, even when she wasn't on screen.

Aidan Cavanaugh said...

I wish I could have the dynamic sliding pinkie pie background i have now with this :\

McSqueakers said...

Wow I've been wondering when this would make it up here. Its a really cool app.

@instantrainbow cause it saves each frame as an image. Pinkie does a lot more than the other ponies. Personal fave too.

Kira Zobel said...

*Stares at her iphone sadly...*

TSLlol said...

OMG, pls, we NEED this for iphone :(

TheIdlingRev said...

If only there was an IOS version...

Rainbow Dash said...

When this comes out for iPhone.....

I don't know but when it does I'm so totally there!!!

DonSerrot said...

I've had this on my phone for a while For some reason the custom background doesn't work for me though so I haven't been using it.

Tequila Sunrise said...

Now I want to ditch my iPhone even more.

banannagram said...

Someone should make something complicated for jailbroken iOS's that has animation in the wallpaper, unless it's been done already.

Aizuka said...

Woah... why does Pinkie Pie have 78 files? She has the most over all the other Ponies.

coolpowers said...

@instantrainbow

Is this some sort of clever Samsung lawsuit joke I'm too dumb to get? (because it's a Samsung Android phone up there, not an iPhone)

Nämahs said...

I do find it funny how people are shocked this is for Android before iPhone.

The reason many people choose an Android phone is for the very reason that on Android its much easier to tweak the OS setting and play with the underlaying files such as live backgrounds.

Seeing iPhone users complain that these live backgrounds got on Android before iPhone is like seeing someone complain that a knife if sharp or a fire is hot.

Nightowl3090 said...

I have had it for a week now too. Works great with the Thunderbolt. And only uses battery when you are ON your desktop pages of your phone. It doesn't run in the background. Just a few days ago the creator added interactions between the ponys which is pretty awesome. Once it gets a few more updates under its belt it'll be stable as a table.

A Guy Named Mike said...

How do I download more ponies once I've selected my initial set and I want to go back for more? I can't figure out how to get back to the download screen.

Lightning Thorn said...

smart peoples Y U NO make cool stuff for ios,
lol jk, i would wait as long as it takes to get animated ios wall paper

Bobbyzero said...

Keeps crashing on my Bionic. Gonna try to reinstall.

Lunar S. Fox said...

Need to get better phone... O_O

KitsuneRisu said...

I approve. My S2 is now currently infested with ponies. AND THEY SHALL NEVER LEAVE.

Bobbyzero said...

The Bionic must be too new for this version i guess, gonna have to wait for a more stable release.

ov3rk1ll said...

This is a bit odd... I was just browsing this site like every morning when suddenly "OMG, my app is on EQD /)^3^(\".

...so as the market-description suggests, this is still a beta and should be considered work-in-progress.

There are bugs that needs fixing and there is a lot of space for improvements ;) (I cannot reduce to battery draining that much, but it's the same with all the live wallpapers).

To all the ppl wanting an iPhone version I can only say that I'm not an iOS developer (and will never be) and the only way I know to put a animated wallpaper on an iPhone is vWallpaper which only plays video files.

@instantrainbow
That's an Galaxy S II. Also, Samsung used this design way before the first iPhone came out.

RBDash said...

OH MY GOD NO! okay sorry that was a bit harsh, but if you have an andriod phone i am warning you now, this thing WILL make your phone crash. I know everyone loves their pony fill (as do I) but this app made my phone crash so hard that i actually had to take the phone into the verizon store and factory reset the thing, making me lose all my pictures and music. ov3rk1ll, i think you have a wonderful idea here and i think you have done a good job, but if you have a driod 3 like mine, well, this thing will glitch and i pray that no one has to do what i had to do

Filiecs said...

@RBDash
Thanks a lot, now I'm scared to use it on my Droid 2...

James said...

Yeah... I'm going to wait for the ASUS Transformer 2 instead of going for some silly iPad(assuming it still has android OS on it.)

RBDash said...

@Filiecs I'm sorry! I just didn't want anyone to go through what i had to. It really sucked because i had to watch everything be reformatted, if it wasn't by some lucky chance we got all the data onto a computer, i would have lost everything on my phone.

Lady Luna said...

Sadly they walk off screen and never come back on my phone. Oh wells.

Kile Anderson said...

I seriously need some help on this, because according to the app, I am doing something wrong. So, I open the pony manager, download 4 ponies (CMC and Derpy). Then I go to Settings>Personalize>Wallpaper>Live Wallpaper. Then I select the Pony Live Wallpaper. My old wallpaper gets removed and replaced with white text that says "No ponies are selected. Go to settings." or something like that. Can someone help me out here? What am I missing?

sarahrose said...

Ive had this for a wile now it is still a bit glitchy but awesome nonthe less

Bobbyzero said...

Same thing here Kile, just got to wait for a stable release.

Delichon said...

Vinyl Scratch dancing on the background of my phone to the sound of dirty dubtrot in her head.
Nothing to see here, move along.

Minipax said...

For some reason it crashes every time I try and load the ponies I downloaded. :<

Bobbyzero said...

Even though the app currently does not run on my phone, I still would like to thank overkill for putting effort and time into it, looking forward to it once all the beta parasprites are ironed out.

Rubik Hooves said...

*hipsterpony*
I had the before it was on EqD...

Octavia said...

......It has been out for a pretty long time already. Its nothing new.

CrisR82 said...
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CrisR82 said...

Looks pretty awesome!
To bad my HTC Wildfire doesn't support Live Wallpapers :(

Simple said...

This is very cool and i'm putting it on my phone immediately!

Delicate Flame said...

Working great on my Samsung Galaxy II. Only problem is them walking off screen and getting stuck in places, but they always come back eventually =)

Carlos the Hedgehog said...

I hope something like this comes out for the iPhone!

Arcane Scroll said...

Works great on my HTC Sensation 4G. Working on the HTC HD@/Android but a little slow on that one (stick with four ponies or less).

@Kile Anderson
Go back into settings and uncheck then re-check the ponies. Happened to my once too.

@RBDash
Something's wrong with your phone, a live wallpaper can't crash your phone that badly. If it really got that bad you could have just pushed a different launcher to it through your computer and rebooted, clear the settings for your old launcher then set the old one as default again. tl;dr the Version techs were idiots (big shock) who were too lazy to spend more then a few minutes on your issue.

@iPhone folks
Blame Apple and their ass-backwards retro business practice. At least they finally stole the Android notification system for the next release. They should have stolen the launcher to and given you something useful too like widgets but not going to happen.

Darkfoxx said...

Would people who comment with bugs etc they found please mention which phone they're using? I have an HTC Hero but still unsure what it will do on/with my phone.

Octavia said...

It did't work on HTC's phone.....
oh sad.....

Samuel7897 said...

As soon my phone is charged I'm doing this :D Hopefully it will work for the HTC Legend...

Bobbyzero said...

Didn't work well on my Bionic, gonna install on my galaxy tab, Sony Experia play, and OG droid shortly.

Jack.Kelso said...

works godly on HTC Desire Z

Armando said...

@Nämahs I thought it was because Apple charges for the iPhone dev tools whereas anyone can download the Android tools for free. Hence any random brony with coding skills can whip this out, while only people committed to making iPhone apps would pay the price.

Rainbow Dash said...

Y U NO MAKE COMPATIBLE FOR NOKIA E71?! >:O

Darkdrium said...

This works flawlessly after a screen lock-unlock cycle on HTC Wildfire S. I now have Luna sleeping on the dais next to Nightmare Moon by CrappyUnicorn. I had to do the unlock trick otherwise the background would not scroll and the pony would walk off screen (So if that can be fixed in some way it would be nice ;-) )
I only have Luna though, and running at 10 FPS. I tried the mane 6 at 25 and while it worked it stuttered a lot and the battery drained one percent per ten seconds or so. But right now it's fine, the battery doesn't seem to be affected at all and the Wildfire S doesn't have the biggest battery to begin with.
One thing I would do is perhaps place some no-pony zones of a few pixels wide so they don't end up partially walking off screen at the farthest sides and staying there or getting under the status bars at the top/bottom. Though I suppose the bottom one is virtually impossible to adapt to as it changes fromphone to phone.

Aliade said...

Totally wish I had a nicer android now(stoopid samsung intercept)

Kile Anderson said...

@Arcane Scroll

Thanks. Between your help and a very recent update, I got it to work.

lievenlo said...

can you get on a site freen desktop ponies for your pc? i want them :D xd

Husky77 said...

This works fine on a LG Thrill, at 30 FPS, no less. Bravo, 0v4rk1ll

Halifax said...

I can't get it to remember my selection of ponies. Every time I make a selection it forgets immediately and says I have none selected. :(

I'm using an Asus Transformer tablet with Android 3.2.

RX-77 [ITA] said...

Mother of... the ponies, they're everywhere on my phone... and I love it!

PS: working fine with Xperia Mini ST-15i

Isaac said...

I had this on my HTC dinc2 for a little while, it's cool and all, but... it's not exactly battery friendly, and the "pony manager" has adware built in. Now I understand why people use ads in apps, for the revenue, but lets face it, a real brony would pay for this.

[Yes, I am against adware. I would prefer trialware, at least with a trial, I can decide weather it is worth my time or not to purchase a full product.]

Juancarlgomez said...

If this was for iPhone it wouldnt have many bugs it's that android makes there phone differently with memory and proccesors. Each phone is different from one another.

Gamermanj4 said...

this wont work properly for me i instaled it dled all ponies and even with just one pony running the screen just shows up blank for me im using a tmoble variant of the samsung galaxy s2 runnning android gingerbread what do ?

Kyli Rouge said...

does this still exist anywhere?

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