Hi r/droidappshowcase! 👋
🎁 GIVEAWAY — 10× lifetime Premium codes inside, details at the bottom.
I'm a solo indie developer, and I'd love to share my passion project that
I've been working on for the past few months: GlowDeck.
I built GlowDeck because I wanted a smooth, truly integrated customization
engine rather than heavy, standalone Android widgets (RemoteViews) stacked
on top of a static background. GlowDeck renders interactive 3D widgets,
photo tiles, and dynamic backgrounds directly on the Live Wallpaper layer
using native OpenGL ES 3.0 and custom GLSL shaders.
Key Features:
- 📸 6 Photo Widgets: Ken Burns motion, 3D flip tiles, depth gallery,
hexagonal sphere & mosaic, and a cinematic photo stream.
- 📝 Notes & Checklists: Sticky notes and checklists rendered right on
your wallpaper — tap a note to jump straight into editing.
- ⚙️ 25 Widgets Total: clock, calendar, shortcut dock, system stats orb,
custom text — all GPU-rendered, all customizable.
- 🌌 Dynamic Shader Backgrounds: heart tunnel, black hole galaxy with
accretion disk, smoke, aurora, plasma and more.
- 🎲 One-Tap Randomizer: roll the dice to instantly re-skin your wallpaper
— new background effect + matching color theme per screen.
- 📱 Multi-Screen: swipe between screens with their own widgets AND
backgrounds.
Performance & Privacy First:
- Event-Driven Rendering: ~0% CPU/GPU when the wallpaper isn't visible —
frames only draw when something actually changes.
- No Accounts, No Developer Analytics: all data (notes, photos, calendar)
stays on your device. The app contains ads via Google AdMob — Google's
standard ad privacy options apply.
Pricing Model (Freemium & Fair Play):
The core features are completely free. You can unlock all Premium widgets
for 30 minutes by watching a single rewarded ad — or grab a one-time
Lifetime Purchase (no subscriptions!) if you want to support an indie dev.
📲 Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kanar.glowdeck
🎁 GIVEAWAY — 10× lifetime Premium codes
- To enter: leave a comment — anything works: a question, a feature
request, or just what wallpaper you're using now.
- Drawing: 25.10 at ~21:00 — winners picked randomly via redditraffler.
- Winners announced in a post edit + get the code via DM (redeemable
in Play Store → unlocks Premium forever).
Honest compatibility note: works on stock launchers and Nova (that's what
I test on). Swipe parallax and multi-screen swiping depend on the launcher
streaming wallpaper offsets — your mileage may vary on "silent" launchers.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any feature requests! If you
run into bugs on specific device setups, let me know in the comments and
I'll push an update ASAP.
Thanks for checking it out! 👊