Big Boss a very well known and a very good developer has released BossPaper v0.93 beta last night for testing. There are still a few features that are planned to be implemented that are not in this version.
What is this?- BossPaper is a Wallpapers manager for your iPhone that uses very little processor or memory to do its work. It is not a full blown winterboard replacement. It is a simple separate enhancement to help fill the memory gap where winterboard leaves off. The app works similar to winterboard after the changes it does a respring for the changes to take effect. The App is in beta stage, you should not try it unless you are sure.
How to get it? : You will have to add BiggBoss’s Beta Repo to download this App. Go to Manage in cydia & Tap Settings on top left. Now Choose the user to be developer. once done – go to changes and refresh & look for Big Boss’s beat repo – Install it and go to changes again look for BossPaper and install away.
From Bigg Boss Blog.
In order to test it, you must install the bigboss beta repository, which I have also released into Cydia for those of you that said you are a “hacker” or “developer” when you loaded Cydia the first time. BossPaper will automatically install logmailer because if you have any problems, I would like a logmailer output of your syslog. If you don’t plan to send syslogs to me when having problems, well then you should not try to beta test this. Of course the first non-beta repo version will not require logmailer. If you hate having logmailer icon, you can hide it for now using SBSettings.
Based on the success / failure of this release, I may move it into a public repository before adding the remaining features.
Currently, the app requires 3.0. I am not sure if I plan to support 2.x or not. Every day there are less 2.x users and more 3.x users. It makes little sense to focus on 2.x for a new app.
Features missing are:
1) Ability to select a single image. If you want a single image make a folder with that image for now.
2) Ability to exclude a single image or images. For now you have to delete it off the folder. In future you will have a way to tell it to not load that image again.
3) Photos – Camera roll is working because these are photos. If you sync pictures using iTunes, these are actually no longer images but an sqllite database of images. Therefore, you cannot use these images. (I haven’t tested this very much. So it could be in accurate).
4) I may examine lock background as well, although I am worried about performance. The lock background should be stationary so that you don’t drain your battery while locked. I will think about this more.
5) Other things I didnt list here.
I am also releasing some BossPaper paper packs to go along with it.
Other Developers: I have a beta repository so if you want to use this service you can submit beta level apps for the beta repository to get early feedback before going “live”.
