Re: [android-developers] Live Wallpaper Architecture

Live wallpapers do not run in Launcher's process, it was a very
important decision we made early on when designing the architecture.
Launcher knows absolutely *nothing* about the wallpaper anymore, it's
handled by the window manager.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Nik Bhattacharya <nibhatta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the Live Wallpaper run in the same process as the Launcher? I
> looked through the Launcher code and cannot really figure out where
> the wallpaper "layer" fits in. I am looking at this with the lens of
> memory consumption and safeguards that the Launcher has in place
> against a bloated Live Wallpaper.
>
> Thanks,
> Nik
>
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