TL;DR = Want sheep now? buy them.  have patientce? render some sheep.

Since we can make accoutns for the desktop client (and the mobile app?) can you implement some sort of earned credit system, where a user enables rendering on their laptop or desktop after logging in, and once rendering is started, they can earn credits to download more sheep to their mobile device by conributing rendering time to the flock.

When I tap the homescreen (on the live wallpaper), the sheep changes to another, but after a few changes, it starts to stop being 'random' and instead changes back to a specific sheep set. (Not sure what to call it -- flock is all of your downloaded sheep. I'm referring to the 'set' associated with a number in the index.) When I look in my index within the app, I see many sheep. I can select them, and view them, but as with the live wallpaper, when I get to the end of the sheep set, it goes back to the other sheep set I was trying to avoid. I looked all through the options, but see nothing about randomization.

Loop Lock to repeat your favorite sheep forever.  Tap with two fingers or use the preferences to toggle this mode.

Parallax mode for switching pages on the home screen.  Turn this on from the preferences to stretch the sheep to cover your whole desktop, so when you switch pages the sheep will scroll with your icons.

Instant start after install.  The app comes with a sheep built-in so it starts playing instantly after install, instead of having to wait while it goes to the sheep server.

New download mode: none.  You can disable downloading unconditionally if you want to save your bandwidth or download credits.

New battery protection feature.  When your battery is less than 10% then the wallpaper stops running and stops downloading.  You can adjust the percentage threshold from the preferences.

Also, plenty of UI polish, and a couple of crashes fixed.

v1.6 was a bugfix of v1.5, there was a problem with the download mode widget.

I've been dreaming of Electric sheep on the go since I got the iPhone 3g. Now that I have android running on my Hp Touchpad, I have 20ish/20ish running pretty smooth.

I appreciate the hard work, and I'm glad to see you're making a bit of money off it too.

I've just installed Electric Sheep on my Samsung Droid Charge, running Verizon-supplied Android 2.3.6. The FPS reading shows as (approx) 1.8 / 14.5.

I have seen other opacity-based transitions (the use of  transparency to blend consecutive frames of output) take a long time to work on this model. Facebook now uses opacity-based transitions on Android, and it too is quite slow on the Droid Charge. So, I'd sooner pin the responsibility for the slowness on the underlying graphics infrastructure.

The patterns are still quite beautiful in slow motion, so I plan to conduct a battery test later today during a meeting. If anything notable happens from that, I'll post separately.

Probably should've expected it, but the app runs terribly on my LG Optimus V; max FPS of ~4.5 actual, with max FPS of ~9 "smoothness" playback. I would've gotten a refund if I had known about Google's disgusting 15 minute window of opportunity to request one.

the changelist: Add main menu command to install as Live Wallpaper, forward and back commands move less far to be less confusing, add swipe commands (left and right plus up for randomize), better network behavior, UI polish.

the app is published again.