Today we come with a excellent app to have Xiaomi 3D backgrounds on your Android mobile and it's called Metropolis. An app that has a large number of backgrounds and that comes at the best possible time by putting this type of 3D “bird's-eye” backgrounds in trend by Xiaomi.
And today, thanks to excellence in hardware and battery of our mobiles, we can afford the luxury of those 3D backgrounds that consume more resources, but which are not those of those mobiles of 5 years ago that suffered with them. Go for it.
A 3D background like those of Xiaomi
Xiaomi has us dumbfounded with those new Xiaomi backgrounds which has made many teeth very long. We are among them and we have looked for a way to get an app that allows us to have the same experience.
That "Aerial view" of our planet It has been seen in two spectacular Xiaomi live wallpaper of the planet Mars and ours. In these, when you turn on the screen and unlock the phone, a perfect animation originates that brings us to a great perspective and a great experience. It is the one we want to imitate with the app called Metropolis.
This is characterized by the 100 cities that allows us to choose differently from those 4 views of the Xiaomi super wallpapers. The curious thing about this wallpapers app is that it is designed with the Unity 3D engine, precisely the one that we can see as used in a multitude of games that we always bring along these lines.
The 100 cities of Metropolis
The cities that we have available in Metropolis are mainly North America and Europe. The app allows us to choose funds from emblematic sites of these regions such as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Paris Las Vegas and Bordeaux Cathedral among many other locations.
One of the highlights of the super wallpapers of Metropolis is that they even move when we move through the different screens that our desktop can have. Even in the latest update, the developer has been in charge of adding zoom effects similar to those of the Xiaomi Super Wallpapers.
Since the settings you can turn the effect on or off, as well as you can change the speed, the zoom level, the parallax effect, and the speed of the «horizontal panning».
Fiddling with the app and its paid version
Metropolis is an app that when using the Unity3D engine It already warns us that it is going to make a high use of memory and battery. In other words, if you are with a low-end mobile, you can start thinking that perhaps it is not going as you would like it or that when it is active you will notice the experience as a little "slow".
One of the highlights of the app is that the data is used from the Bing Map SDK and that it is embedded in the application for the 3D models of those iconic sites. In other words, we are talking about scenes pre-generated by Bing Maps SDK. From the app settings we can activate the Xiaomi Super Wallpaper effect from MIUI 12, although be careful with this feature, since it exerts more on the battery and system resources.
In those settings only can set the Parallax Effect when we have acquired the Pro version. And in fact part of the locations that we have are paid, although we have a good number free. For 3,29 euros we have custom locations, outside of advertising and the fact that we do not need to see ads to download a Pro location.
Metropolis is an interesting live wallpaper for our mobile that allows us to imitate that experience seen in those of Xiaomi and that also puts us in our hands up to 100 locations taken from the same Bing engine; by the way, don't miss this new app from the own bing wallpapers and that has been released a few days ago.
