🎲Random Background

Description

This is an app that is designed to change your system's desktop wallpaper to a random image at a specified interval. The settings of the app are controlled by a configuration file, which will eventually be manipulated through a GUI. The configuration file allows you to specify whether the random image comes from a directory on your system or from an API endpoint. It also allows you to specify how often the background should change.

✨Features

✅Current Features:

• Random image from a directory
• Change wallpaper every x minutes
• A config file determines settings
• The config file can be manipulated through the Config class

User-Guide

Currently, everything is controlled through the configuration file. Config File:

• changeInterval: Time in minutes between each time of changing the background image.
• imagePath: When in directory mode, this is the path to the directory containing the background images you'd like to choose from (e.g. C://User/[user]/Pictures). When in API mode, this is the URL to the API you would like to call. Note that the API must return an image file.
  • Example APIs: https://picsum.photos/1920/1080 or https://random.danielpetrica.com/api/random
• imageSource: How you would like to source your random image (directory, API)

config.properties

Example API Settings:

# Changes your wallpaper every 15 minutes to a random 1920 x 1080 image
changeInterval=15
imagePath=https://picsum.photos/1920/1080
imageSource=API

Example Directory Settings:

# Changes your wallpaper every hour to a random image contained in your directory. 
changeInterval=60
imagePath=C:/Users/path/to/your/directory
imageSource=directory

🚧Coming Soon:

• Cross Platform functionality (assuming I have access to good VMs)
• GUI to control app/config file

🛠️Technologies Used

• Java - Core logic
• Maven - Dependency and build management
• Java Native Access - System-level wallpaper manipulation