In this article, I will show in pictures how to set wallpaper on the desktop of an Android phone or tablet.
Surely many people who have just bought their first device on the Android operating system cannot find how to install other wallpapers on their desktop. After all, everyone wants to customize and design their phone / tablet in their own way.
I took 2 of my devices as the basis for writing this post: the HTC One Dual Sim phone and the Sony Xperia Tablet Z tablet on the latest Android versions at the moment.
In fact, installing other wallpapers on the Android desktop is very simple, but for those who are too lazy to search, read, although you may be too lazy to read, then see the pictures))
So let's start with the experimental phone HTC One. Turn on the phone (top button) > unlock > menu > settings > personalization > wallpaper (go) and here we see HTC wallpapers(standard HTC wallpapers), Dynamic backgrounds(live wallpaper). Go to the desired section, select what you like and click apply. On our site you can have a variety of options. Below are screenshots from the phone (click on the picture to enlarge).
Let's move on to the Sony Xperia Tablet Z tablet, there are two options for setting wallpaper on the Android desktop.
- Hold the clubs on the desktop and in the panel that appears on the side select background or topic. In the background, you can choose standard pictures, live wallpapers or photos from the album. In themes, you can choose standard wallpapers that replace the general background, the lock theme and the wallpaper itself ( This option is used not only in tablets, but also in phones. It is the most common).
- Unlock phone > go to menu > settings > personal settings. Here you can do everything the same as in the first option, that is, select a wallpaper, lock screen, theme.
Screenshots from the tablet for clarity (click on the picture to enlarge).
That's all! I hope now you can easily figure it out and you will not have a question how to set wallpaper on android devices.
In our catalog on the site you can also for your tablet or phone, which will definitely work on it, and ordinary wallpapers on the phone.
Well, lastly, who is interested in how to take a screenshot of the android screen. Need to press the button On off and volume rocker down. The pictures taken can be found here. Pictures/Screenshots by connecting the devices to the computer (keep in mind this method does not work on all Android devices).
Once upon a time, we all used push-button mobile phones. In those days, there were a lot of WAP-sites with pictures. To download wallpapers on your phone, you only needed to know the display resolution. Now things have gotten a little more complicated. But if you master this theme, you can change the wallpaper at least every day!
Wallpaper for Android is a regular image that is permanently displayed on your desktop. The exception is live wallpapers, but we will talk about them below. What then is the difficulty? It would seem that you can download any picture from the Internet and set it as wallpaper! But not everything is so simple. You may well run into cases where the image is stretched in width or height, resulting in it not looking its best. This is due to the fact that you found a photo of the wrong resolution.
Before looking for a suitable picture, check the display resolution of your smartphone or tablet. The image must have the same resolution. Or at least exactly the same aspect ratio.
There are many sites with which you can download wallpapers adapted to a particular resolution. You can learn a little more about them, again, closer to the conclusion of the article. In the meantime, let's try to understand how to find out the right resolution and what to do after? The display resolution must be specified in the device specifications. Just enter the name of your smartphone in the search and go to the page of this device, say, in Yandex.Market. In the list of specifications, you will definitely see the screen resolution. A more complicated and lengthy way is to download some kind of benchmark. For example, many device parameters are displayed AnTuTu Benchmark. This method is useful if you do not know or have forgotten the name of the smartphone.
By the way, it is not necessary to select a picture with the resolution you need. If necessary, it can be cut by one or another application. It could be any photo editor for android. And you can use the computer, where there is GIMP, Adobe Photoshop and other similar programs. When framing, you should focus either on the resolution of your display, or on its aspect ratio.
Installing wallpaper in the standard way
There are two most popular methods for setting wallpaper on a smartphone:
- The standard way is when you find a picture on the Internet, and then put it on your desktop yourself;
- Using a special application - it contains a lot of wallpapers that are cut to fit your screen automatically.
If you have already found a suitable image on the global web, then it remains to set it as wallpaper. It is not difficult:
Step 1. Go to " Gallery” or any other application that displays the pictures contained on the smartphone.
Step 2 Select the image that you want to always see on your desktop. Click here on the vertical three dots, which will open a small menu of options.
Step 3 Click on " Set as wallpaper».
Step 4 Choose exactly where you want to put the wallpaper. Usually, in addition to the main screen, a lock screen is available here. You can also set one picture on both screens at the same time. In our case, we are interested in the desktop - that is, " Main screen».
On tablets and some smartphones, you may need to crop the image. So you can fit it to the screen so that the picture looks perfect.
Using Third Party Applications
It is much easier to use third-party applications to set wallpapers. A lot of them have been developed for the Android operating system. The database of each application stores a lot of images, divided into categories. You just have to choose a picture and set it as wallpaper. The program will do the rest for you. Let's take a look at your actions using an example of using the application Wallpaper HD :
Step 1. Install and run the program.
Step 2 Click on the button " Review". You can also log in to the application - then it will learn to remember your settings when moving from one device to another.
Step 3 Now you can choose the picture you want to put on the main screen. To do this, you can go through the categories, see the latest added images and see the selection of users.
Step 4 When you find a suitable option - click on the red button. The program also allows you to like the picture, comment on it, download it to your smartphone and set it as a contact.
Step 5 Crop the picture the way you want. After that click on " tick».
That's all! There are other similar applications. Their functionality is similar - only the images themselves, stored on the server, differ.
Setting live wallpaper
With the light hand of HTC developers, live wallpapers have become very popular. They differ from static ones in that the picture is in motion. Clouds float across the sky, sometimes the sun's rays peep through the foliage of the forest, its inhabitants run along the anthill, the curtains on the window sway from time to time ... In a word, live wallpapers are no longer an ordinary image saved in JPEG format. But this is not a GIF animation - it is something more complex. Therefore, live wallpapers are usually distributed as separate applications.
You can find and install live wallpapers using Play market. In most cases, they are distributed free of charge. Most often, such wallpapers only need to be installed, no other actions are required from the user (although sometimes some settings are still entered).
Note: live wallpapers load the processor quite heavily and consume energy. If your smartphone has a weak battery and not the best performance, then live wallpapers should be discarded.
Where to download wallpapers for Android?
Now you know how to set wallpaper on Android. It remains only to understand where you can download interesting images that you would like to see on your desktop all the time. And there are a huge number of such storage sites. Here are just the most popular ones:
- WallpapersHome- thousands of various images, each of which can be downloaded in one resolution or another (popular options are available for PC, Android, iOS and Mac OS). Photos here are most often uploaded by users themselves.
- iPhone wallpaper- contains photos that fit the screen of Apple smartphones and tablets.
- mob.org- the wallpaper section here is divided into a couple of dozen categories, so the choice becomes not so difficult.
- Social media- of course, a lot of various pictures for the desktop can be found in Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Spaces and other similar sites. There are even separate groups containing a huge number of wallpapers. However, not all images are sorted by resolution, so in some cases you will have to crop the picture yourself.
- top android- this site allows you to choose not only ordinary pictures, but also live wallpapers. However, the selection and download of content is not implemented in the most convenient way.
Conclusion
This concludes our guide. As you understand, installing wallpapers on a smartphone is not difficult at all. Now you can solve this problem in a couple of minutes! It will take much more time to search for a picture - the one that you like.
Oddly enough, not every smartphone owner copes with installing wallpaper. Although this is done very simply, which today's guide will confirm.
Once upon a time, we all used push-button mobile phones. In those days, there were a lot of WAP-sites with pictures. To download wallpapers on your phone, you only needed to know the display resolution. Now things have gotten a little more complicated. But if you master this theme, you can change the wallpaper at least every day!
What are wallpapers?
Wallpaper for Android is a regular image that is permanently displayed on your desktop. The exception is live wallpapers, but we will talk about them below. What then is the difficulty? It would seem that you can download any picture from the Internet and set it as wallpaper! But not everything is so simple. You may well run into cases where the image is stretched in width or height, resulting in it not looking its best. This is due to the fact that you found a photo of the wrong resolution.
Before looking for a suitable picture, check the display resolution of your smartphone or tablet. The image must have the same resolution. Or at least exactly the same aspect ratio.There are many sites with which you can download wallpapers adapted to a particular resolution. You can learn a little more about them, again, closer to the conclusion of the article. In the meantime, let's try to understand how to find out the right resolution and what to do after? The display resolution must be specified in the device specifications. Just enter the name of your smartphone in the search and go to the page of this device, say, in Yandex.Market. In the list of specifications, you will definitely see the screen resolution. A more complicated and lengthy way is to download some kind of benchmark. For example, many device parameters are displayed. This method is useful if you do not know or have forgotten the name of the smartphone.
By the way, it is not necessary to select a picture with the resolution you need. If necessary, it can be cut by one or another application. It could be any photo editor for android. And you can use the computer, where there is GIMP, Adobe Photoshop and other similar programs. When framing, you should focus either on the resolution of your display, or on its aspect ratio.
There are two most popular methods for setting wallpaper on a smartphone:
- The standard way is when you find a picture on the Internet, and then put it on your desktop yourself;
- Using a special application - it contains a lot of wallpapers that are cut to fit your screen automatically.
If you have already found a suitable image on the global web, then it remains to set it as wallpaper. It is not difficult:
Step 1. Go to the "Gallery" or any other application that displays the pictures contained on the smartphone.
Step 2. Select the image that you want to always see on your desktop. Click here on the vertical three dots, which will open a small menu of options.
Step 3. Click on " Set as wallpaper».
Step 4. Choose exactly where you want to put the wallpaper. Usually, in addition to the main screen, a lock screen is available here. You can also set one picture on both screens at the same time. In our case, we are interested in the desktop - that is, " Main screen».
On tablets and some smartphones, you may need to crop the image. So you can fit it to the screen so that the picture looks perfect.
Using Third Party Applications
It is much easier to use third-party applications to set wallpapers. A lot of them have been developed for the Android operating system. The database of each application stores a lot of images, divided into categories. You just have to choose a picture and set it as wallpaper. The program will do the rest for you. Let's take a look at your actions using an example of using the application:
Step 1. Install and run the program.
Step 2. Click on the button " Review". You can also log in to the application - then it will learn to remember your settings when moving from one device to another.
Step 3. Now you can choose the picture you want to put on the main screen. To do this, you can go through the categories, see the latest added images and see the selection of users.
Step 4. When you find a suitable option - click on the red button. The program also allows you to put the picture " like”, comment on it, download it to your smartphone and install it on a contact.
Step 5. Crop the picture the way you want. After that click on " tick».
That's all! There are other similar applications. Their functionality is similar - only the images themselves, stored on the server, differ.
With the light hand of HTC developers, live wallpapers have become very popular. They differ from static ones in that the picture is in motion. Clouds float across the sky, sometimes the sun's rays peep through the foliage of the forest, its inhabitants run along the anthill, the curtains on the window sway from time to time ... In a word, live wallpapers are no longer an ordinary image saved in JPEG format. But this is not a GIF animation - it is something more complex. Therefore, live wallpapers are usually distributed as separate applications.
You can find and install live wallpapers using the Play Market. In most cases, they are distributed free of charge. Most often, such wallpapers only need to be installed, no other actions are required from the user (although sometimes some settings are still entered).
note: live wallpapers load the processor quite heavily and consume energy. If your smartphone has a weak battery and not the best performance, then live wallpapers should be discarded.
Where to download wallpapers for Android?
Now you know how to set wallpaper on Android. It remains only to understand where you can download interesting images that you would like to see on your desktop all the time. And there are a huge number of such storage sites. Here are just the most popular ones:
- WallpapersHome- thousands of various images, each of which can be downloaded in one resolution or another (popular options are available for PC, Android, iOS and Mac OS). Photos here are most often uploaded by users themselves.
- iPhone wallpaper- contains photos that fit the screen of Apple smartphones and tablets.
- mob.org- the wallpaper section here is divided into a couple of dozen categories, so the choice becomes not so difficult.
- MobiPics- very simple but popular site. Its visit is ideal for those cases when mobile traffic is limited.
- top android- this site allows you to choose not only ordinary pictures, but also live wallpapers. However, the selection and download of content is not implemented in the most convenient way.
You can download live wallpapers -:
Conclusion
This concludes our guide. As you understand, installing wallpapers on a smartphone is not difficult at all. Now you can solve this problem in a couple of minutes! It will take much more time to search for a picture - the one that you like.
Probably, for many, this entry will seem pointless and useless, because setting the wallpaper on the screen of an android phone or tablet is a simple thing.
Only since we are not born with this knowledge, the first time you need to learn how to make this setting.
There are 2 possibilities for this. Set an image from a series of pictures that come with the device or set your own photo that you took yourself.
These settings are available for all phones and tablets with the Android operating system.
In addition, the wallpaper itself is also different. They can be live, such as video, changing, animated, on the home screen and on the lock screen.
Below you will find a description of these options, plus my favorite - using a special program.
Setting wallpaper on the screen of an android phone or tablet
To set a picture as a wallpaper that was already built into the android system, this happens as follows.
In the main window, hold your finger on the screen until the following menu appears, as in the picture below.
Then click on the first icon in the list called "Wallpaper" to enter the menu where you can select the desired pictures.
When you decide on the choice of the desired image (mono scroll pictures to the right side), click on it to select it and at the very bottom click on the line: "SET AS WALLPAPER".
In case you want to choose live or animated, then download them from the play store, there you can find various live wallpapers in all areas.
If you want to put a picture that you made on your phone, then click on the “FROM gallery” icon in the same place.
This option will take you to your personal photo gallery. Select a picture and then click set photo as wallpaper.
How to set wallpaper on android lock screen
For the lock screen, you can also put your own photo or a built-in picture.
To do this, follow the same operation as described above, just click on the "Home screen" line at the very top and select the "Lock screen" option.
All further steps according to the instructions above. Everything should be simple and even. There is really one point.
In order to put your wallpaper normally, sometimes they need to be cut or reduced correctly, otherwise they will not fit on the whole screen.
To do this, you can use a computer, and then transfer from a computer to a phone or tablet.
In the case of animated ones, this is a gif image. You can make a GIF yourself (you will need a special program) or download it.
NOTE: The recording uses pictures from a Samsung Galaxy phone on Android 6.0. On android 5.1 it is almost identical, but on older versions there may be some differences.
Another option to put wallpaper on android
There is a great program called Image 2 Wallpaper, which can be downloaded for free from the play store.
With its help, it is easy to install almost any wallpaper. The only bad thing is that the android on the machine does not fit the photo to the phone or tablet.
Photo resolution can be changed using android applications - edit.
Just first determine the screen resolution of your phone (look at the characteristics on the Internet).
Here, too, surprises await. If you change the resolution, the quality of the photo may deteriorate.
Alternatively, you can use the HD Wallpaper program. It has different options for setting wallpaper and even a full-screen option without cropping. Good luck.
Wallpaper on Android is a part of the user interface that you can safely change "for yourself" at any time and day. Since, by default, most of the applications (games / programs) of this operating system are located not on the main screen with widgets, but in a window specially designated for them, the user is forced, when interacting with an android device, first of all to pay attention to the start screen t .e. the android desktop where wallpapers, widgets and control/notification panels are located.
Why is wallpaper important to the interface?
It doesn't matter how many application shortcuts or various widgets are located on the main screen of the device - the wallpaper will be visible to the naked eye, one way or another. If the standard wallpaper distracts you from everyday tasks or simply does not satisfy you in any way, then it makes sense to install other wallpapers on Android other than those that are built into Android in the "box".
Types of wallpaper
Before proceeding directly to the search and installation of new wallpapers, we have to decide what type of wallpaper is needed or is more interesting. At the moment, there are two main types of wallpapers for android devices: static - a picture of any size and "live wallpaper" - ready-made animation with possible options for controlling moving particles and other graphic elements.
Of course, the second option seems more attractive, at least at first glance, but there is one thing - animation requires additional resources for both the processor and the graphics accelerator. It is up to you to decide what is more profitable, a picture or a beautiful animation at the expense of Android performance.
One of the easiest ways to find pre-optimized wallpapers for smartphones and tablets is to install special applications for Android of any version. In such programs, the wallpaper database is located on the server and each image is pre-cropped to the optimal format. We recommend using the Zedge program. It is free, and its base will satisfy even the most fastidious user.
Install wallpapers online with Zedge
Already after installation, on the main screen of the application there are sections of ordinary wallpapers, live wallpapers, as well as ringtones, notification sounds and thousands of android games. We are only interested in the first two sections, and if there are only a little more than a thousand wallpaper units in the live wallpaper section, then tens of thousands of pictures are located in standard static wallpapers, which can be installed in a few clicks:
- Select the image you are interested in and go to its page
- Click on the Free button a la download
- the Free button changes to Set when the image is uploaded successfully
- Click on the Set button
- and this photo \ picture is instantly set as the default wallpaper
We put wallpaper from the standard collection
Most often, the original firmware comes with about ten different thematic static wallpapers and several live wallpapers from the manufacturer itself. Such a collection has already been adapted specifically for your device and this automatically deprives you of any problems with the "crooked" display when using these wallpapers.
Installation method:
- Long tap on a free space on the main screen
- Wallpaper
- Live wallpaper
- Gallery (choose your own image)
- Wallpaper
- Choose, click "install", you're done!
Installing wallpaper from our website
You can also download various wallpapers from our catalog. For this you need:
- Go to the Wallpapers section following the link.
- Download the .apk file you like.
- Install it on your device following the instructions.
It is enough to perform just a few clicks or use third-party customization applications and your device will be different from many analogues.
