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Building a Live Wallpaper That Doesn't Drain the Battery — Designing the WallpaperService Render Loop Around a Power Budget
Live wallpapers quietly burn battery because they keep drawing when nothing is visible. Here is the WallpaperService.Engine design I used to cut power draw by roughly 60% in a real wallpaper app, built around visibility, idle, and thermal gates.