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I have a space shooter game for Android and I want to implement it as a live wallpaper. Any ideas on how this can be done?

Or better yet can anyone help me / provide a template that calls a "ship" object that fires missile? I'll do the rest from there onwards. I just need it as a starting point for learning Android.

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I too enjoy cutting my battery life in half. – AttackingHobo Sep 16 '11 at 5:41
XD XD XD aha ha ha! – user943974 Sep 16 '11 at 7:34

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The first Google hit I got for live wallpaper api android gives a good overview and links to example code.

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It only refers to the Cube Live Wallpaper which basically deals with actual drawing on canvas, what I wanted to achieve is to call a class (Ship class) into the Wallpaper. ^^, – user943974 Sep 16 '11 at 4:07
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@user943974, why does the obvious approach of calling the Ship constructor not work? – Peter Taylor Sep 16 '11 at 5:58
I'm calling the ship class inside the c = holder.lockCanvas which goes something like: shipS.draw(c); where shipS = the ship class. Can you please show me the right way of "calling the Ship constructor" it might be the solution I'm looking for. – user943974 Sep 16 '11 at 7:39
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@user943974, I get the impression that the question you asked isn't really the real question, which is "What's wrong with the code I've written?". How about you create a small but complete program which demonstrates your problem and (if that doesn't in itself help you solve it) post on StackOverflow? – Peter Taylor Sep 16 '11 at 9:12
I thought it would be more convenient if I could see a Live Wallpaper Template that does something like my specification. Then, I could adapt from there, configure my missile, movement, speed classes to be compatible with the one provided. ^^, – user943974 Sep 16 '11 at 9:40

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