Material Islands™ - Semi-live

A minimal & material live wp that does not drain your battery or eat up your RAM

Material Islands™ - Semi-live

App stats

Version: 0.85 (Last updated: 2021-08-15)
Creation date: 2015-06-05
Permissions
Location: precise location (GPS and network-based)
Other:
  • adjust your wallpaper size
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • set wallpaper
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

Material Islands™ is a Minimal and Material design inspired semi-live wallpaper that does not drain your battery or eat up your RAM.

Material & Minimalistic

Choose among several different, individually unique and beautifully minimalistic islands for your homescreen. Feeling forest-y? 🌲 Go with Isle of Trees! Feeling that anger boiling? Maybe Isle of Lava is more fitting! 🔥 Sitting on the subway? 🚆 Isle of Urbanity is probably a good fit! More islands are constantly being worked on as the artist Jenny Hanell finds the time to do so.

Live wallpaper without the battery drain 🔋

From the very beginning Material Islands was built to have an as small as possible impact on both your RAM and battery. The islands are not doing any superfluous animations that make your device stutter but instead are silently updated in the background so that anytime there's a redraw ready it has already happened! Forget 60 FPS, with Material Islands it is more like a handful frames a day!

Daytime, Nighttime, Anytime 🌄🌃

Your chosen island follows you through the day! While you're getting ready in the morning the Isle of Ice is still warming up from the night. When you are leaving the office for the day it looks like the party at the Isle of Paradise has already started. When you are refreshing the stream of your social network of choice for the last time late at night the Isle of Sand has already long fallen asleep.

Superdupersharp

Every Material Island is rendered straight from raw code, pixel-by-pixel right on your device ensuring a supersharp experience.

Free, with paid upgrades

This core experience of the app is completely free and there are no ads. If you want to you can upgrade your experience by adding live weather to your islands with an in-app purchase. If you really want to support me you can also by me a beer or another beverage in the support tab of the app 🙂

Copyright notice

The artwork in this app is made by the developer and belongs to her. It is not allowed to use the images outside the scope of the app.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Beautiful and aesthetic wallpapers
  • Ability to change wallpaper with the time of day
  • No intrusive ads and low memory usage
  • Customizable settings for wallpaper transitions
  • One-time purchase for live weather feature is appreciated
Cons
  • Live weather feature often does not work or is inaccurate
  • Weather updates are infrequent (every 24 hours)
  • Some users experience issues applying wallpapers to the lock screen
  • Requests for additional customization options are common
Most mentioned
  • Live weather feature not working
  • Wallpapers changing with day-night cycle
  • Beautiful and clear graphics
  • Low resource usage
  • Need for more customization options
User reviews
Hi there! The app is amazing! The wallpapers are incredible... I've got some suggestions... I've seen that you only can choose time at an specific hour, and sometimes I wish it could have like more options of time, maybe with quarters of hours or something like that... Or an option that according to your location and the info of the time of the sunrise and sunset, the app automatically change the wallpapers Pd: I love the option of the Live Weather
by Nicolás Jurado R., 2021-05-11

Truly among the best of its genre of apps. With no intrusive ads, the ability to change the style of the island, as well as the timing of the background changes makes this a simple, but remarkable little background app. Doesn't take up too much memory, looks very clean and aesthetically pleasing, is free, and isn't even riddled with ads. Great work, developers! This is the kind of thing I love to see!
by Wrynn, 2021-02-08

Would give 5 stars if the weather worked!! I'll update to 5⭐ and donate a beer when it's fixed! I receive "No weather was found for the current location, default is sun" everytime. I tried automatic and setting coordinates, nothing works. The wallpapers are gorgeous though. I love that it changes with the time of day, and the user controls when. Note20 Ultra
by Dylan A, 2020-11-25
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