500 Firepaper
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About 500 Firepaper
500 Firepaper provides a live wallpaper and a daydream showing you the latest images from 500px throughout the day.
You never need to look at that boring old wallpaper again, or search for hours for a nice new one. This app will show you quality photographs from all over the world - different ones each day!
The feature (popular, editor's choice, fresh, etc) and categories displayed are of course configurable, as is the refresh interval and the brightness of the images.
Please note that high resolution imagery and animation takes quite a bit of memory, so obviously this app is aimed at high-end devices.
If you are a Muzei user, 500 Firepaper also presents itself as an art source to Muzei.
FAQ
What does buying Pro get me?
I've already made all the features available to you for free. Supporting my developments is optional, but certainly appreciated.
Why is there no save feature ?
Not allowed per 500px API terms.
Three finger tap to go to the next image doesn't seem to work, what now ?
On some devices (like the HTC One) you need to put down your fingers one-by-one.
Why can't I pause indefinitely or show an image for longer than a day ?
Per 500px API terms the app cannot keep an image around for longer than 24 hours - unless you purchase Pro.
Why does this use so much RAM ?
High-resolution imagery takes a lot of memory in uncompressed form, and multiple buffers are required. But fear not, should your device need the memory while the wallpaper/daydream is not visible, the memory occupied by the app will automagically be released and repurposed.
Can the cached images be put somewhere else, like on my sd card ?
No, they cannot.
Do you want a balloon ?
No, but thanks for asking.
Notices
This application is completely dependent on the availability of 500px and its APIs. 500px can remove the APIs or revoke this application's API keys at any time. This will cause the application to stop working.
Due to 500px's API usage conditions, the application cannot cache images for longer than 24 hours. As such, if you are not connected to Wi-Fi while either charging or having a near-full battery for more than a day, the application will run out of images to display.
This application uses the 500px(tm) API and is not endorsed or certified by 500px or 500px Inc. All 500px Trademarks displayed on this application are property of 500px Inc.
No personal or private information about you or your device is collected or transmitted by this app.
You never need to look at that boring old wallpaper again, or search for hours for a nice new one. This app will show you quality photographs from all over the world - different ones each day!
The feature (popular, editor's choice, fresh, etc) and categories displayed are of course configurable, as is the refresh interval and the brightness of the images.
Please note that high resolution imagery and animation takes quite a bit of memory, so obviously this app is aimed at high-end devices.
If you are a Muzei user, 500 Firepaper also presents itself as an art source to Muzei.
FAQ
What does buying Pro get me?
I've already made all the features available to you for free. Supporting my developments is optional, but certainly appreciated.
Why is there no save feature ?
Not allowed per 500px API terms.
Three finger tap to go to the next image doesn't seem to work, what now ?
On some devices (like the HTC One) you need to put down your fingers one-by-one.
Why can't I pause indefinitely or show an image for longer than a day ?
Per 500px API terms the app cannot keep an image around for longer than 24 hours - unless you purchase Pro.
Why does this use so much RAM ?
High-resolution imagery takes a lot of memory in uncompressed form, and multiple buffers are required. But fear not, should your device need the memory while the wallpaper/daydream is not visible, the memory occupied by the app will automagically be released and repurposed.
Can the cached images be put somewhere else, like on my sd card ?
No, they cannot.
Do you want a balloon ?
No, but thanks for asking.
Notices
This application is completely dependent on the availability of 500px and its APIs. 500px can remove the APIs or revoke this application's API keys at any time. This will cause the application to stop working.
Due to 500px's API usage conditions, the application cannot cache images for longer than 24 hours. As such, if you are not connected to Wi-Fi while either charging or having a near-full battery for more than a day, the application will run out of images to display.
This application uses the 500px(tm) API and is not endorsed or certified by 500px or 500px Inc. All 500px Trademarks displayed on this application are property of 500px Inc.
No personal or private information about you or your device is collected or transmitted by this app.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Apologies for the app not working for a few weeks. We have been working together with 500px to attempt to solve the issue.
Please read the release notes here: https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/HQKjKofS9qF
- New API keys
- Grand algorithm reworking:
--- API call rate limiting
--- Daily quotas
--- Cache period extension
--- Display order randomization
- Fixed bug where images would auto-change for a few seconds
Apologies for the app not working for a few weeks. We have been working together with 500px to attempt to solve the issue.
Please read the release notes here: https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/HQKjKofS9qF
- New API keys
- Grand algorithm reworking:
--- API call rate limiting
--- Daily quotas
--- Cache period extension
--- Display order randomization
- Fixed bug where images would auto-change for a few seconds
Version update 500 Firepaper was updated to version 2.80
Version update 500 Firepaper was updated to version 2.71
More downloads 500 Firepaper reached 500 000 - 1 000 000 downloads
Version update 500 Firepaper was updated to version 2.65
What are users saying about 500 Firepaper
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De facto android wallpaper app. B e a beautiful. Paid for pro after latest update. Suggest you do the same if using the app. Chainfire deserves it.
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Fantastic, truly fantastic ap. The best there is, period. Chain fire (in case you don't know) is one of the very best android devs. This is a killer, must have ap. Get it now!
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It may not have been updated in almost 2 years but still runs fluently with very minor glitches. Hats off to chainfire. Edit: just got a shock that it got updated. Wow.!!
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I am using it for many years and very happy that you have made updated. I would say this could be a ultimate wallpaper. Keep update always
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This is hands down the best wallpaper app in the playstore. Nothing beats it.
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Been using this as my wallpaper for years and absolutely love it. It doesn't suck up battery or data and if it seems to for you just change the settings and it's easily fixed.
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Works again, but parallax seems to be less noticeable now
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Greatest live wallpaper app that I has ever used. So many thanks for fixing bug. My phone's wall without firepaper is so boring.
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Great app offering a very wide choice of photographs to display as your wallpaper along with a great number of additional features. Wouldn't leave home without it
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I love this app but suddenly it won't upload any new pictures and I don't know what's wrong. :(
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Updated??!! Hell yes. Thought it was a gonner. Chainfire, you're very admirable, paid for all your developments, never regret it.
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With latest update version all issues seems being resolved and works brilliant. Credit to developer for improvements and response through our feedback.
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Photos are getting downloaded now, thanks
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Even after the new update .. the app is not working
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It's working again
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Hands down THE best wallpaper app!
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Works perfectly after the update - thanks!
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Hoooray! Everything's working perfectly again! :)
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Awesome awesome awesome
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Fantastic
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Very nice way to have a new wallpaper image every few minutes. It's especially nice to be able to customize categories of photos. The only recent glitch is that the rotate feature, which advances images when going from portrait to landscape orientation, is no longer working despite having that feature setting enabled.
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It's an nice app. Could you make it possible to reduce the daydream interval below 30sec to 5, 10 & 20 sec? Also a fitted view option for daydream photos so that the images would show up entirely. Would be awesome! Thanks!
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This wallpaper app doesn't kill your battery.... It doesn't crash. It works as expected. And doesn't use much space. I'm running it on CM10.2... So I bought the pro version . keep up the good work :-) Update 8-24-17 the app doesn't update photos anymore on my galaxy S8+ 2 stars from me....
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Stopped working recently. Won't fill cache. Constantly shows black message that it's getting more photos but never does. Very bad design. Very few buttons. Context not well explained. You sort of have to know how it works. I design better UI in my sleep.
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It was good for years, 4 days ago it stopped working and has been trying to load images and no images are available. By reading recent reviews everyone else is having the same issue. I tried to uninstall and reinstall several times. But I think I am giving up and will permanently uninstall. Tried emailing the developer, and got a generic response that does not cover this issue. Oh well. Hope it works one day again.
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Three days and counting...loading images and it does not load. Uninstall, reinstall, restart, plead, beg, dance around it like a wild injun. Nothing. Worked great for 3 years. Something is amiss and it probably has to do with the remarks made in the link. Uninstalling.
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It's quite good, the best in fact out of all wallpaper apps out there. The only problem I'm having is it changes the wallpaper every ten minutes even though I have it set to do so every hour.
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It's an nice app. Could you make it possible to reduse the daydream interval below 30sec to 5, 10 & 20 sec? Also a fitted view option for daydream photos so that the images would show up entirely. Would be awesome! Thanks!
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Permette di cambiare sfondo automaticamente ad intervalli di tempo personalizzato. I vari sfondi possono essere selezionati per categoria e sono davvero belli. Peccato occupa davvero tanta Ram, nel mio caso sui 350MB di Ram fissi.
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UPDATE: I fussed with it and fixed whatever I didn't set up right in the first place. This app is BRILLIANT! It correctly fits the wallpaper to the desktop - I can't even do that MANUALLY on the tablet. This app rocks. My previous review was bad, but I take it all back. This is awesome. 500px has a world of beauty, and this app BRINGS IT!
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I have tried lots of wallpaper apps but I don't need to look any more. 500 Firepaper does everything I need it to do. I love the option to keep images B&W. No more distracting background colours hiding my icons! This is one app where I don't mind supporting the creator. Well done!
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... with flexible settings. But I installed it on my Nexus 6P for the Daydream function. Andi it doesn't work correctly: instead of images I see black screen (with titles). I will give 5 stars when this bug if fixed.
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..on lollipop. I upgraded to marshmallow and now doesnt work. It may be just my phone or settings, but I did spend ages tinkering the settings to no avail. Very good little app when it does work. Better interface than others too.
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This app used to be good but now developer is getting greedy with users resources and giving less control and using more power. Please fix code so it consumes less power and doesn't have high wakelock usage. Also bring back 7 day pins and stop forcing me to see a picture every 24 hours.
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This was the perfect app until 500px changed their API and includes watermarks on all images now. Shows up all the time in the bottom left and is distracting. Keeping 5 stars cause its not the devs fault.
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I have never sticked to a single wallpaper app for more than a month. But ever since I started using 500 firepaper I have never searched for another app. Hope that you would find some other photographer community site and use those instead of 500px and solve this issue
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Well, the API key still hasn't been revoked, which suggests it's staying around. I'd love an update - the interval for wallpaper changes is stuck on 5 minutes no matter what I do, and I'd love for a way to remove the app icon, since I can access settings through the live wallpaper settings button. Other than that, beautiful wallpapers for days!
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The app has one of the best collection of wallpapers on the Playstore but I'd like to ask the developer team to also decrease the battery usage. The app causes a lot of battery drain on my phone.
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I liked this app. It's my second day using it and now I hate it. Wallpaper don't change, wallpapers that I don't like and delete keep showing again... Please fix this. Also what if someone is gay? Just woman pictures in "nude" category.
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When I first downloaded this app I loved it. Then lately for some reason it doesn't work consistently. I thought I needed to upgrade it and I did and it barely works at all now. No happy at all. Something needs to be done about it. I don't know what happened but this app is now working. I'm so happy but I love this app so much and when I wasn't able to use it , it was killing me. Thank you for fixing it