How to put a video wallpaper on Android

There are countless wallpapers for mobile phones, and even Android apps with background libraries. However, it is also possible that you prefer to have something more dynamic as your smartphone wallpaper. Some features allow you to pass different images as slideshows, but you also have another great option. In this tutorial you will learn how to put a wallpaper video.

Take your favorite videos, with those special moments, or your compositions in video format and use them as a background so that they can be seen constantly on your screen. you just have to follow a few simple steps.

Advantages and disadvantages of putting a video or GIF as wallpaper on Android

Before using a GIF or video as your future wallpaper on your Android mobile device, you should know the pros and cons What do you have to do this:

• Advantages:
  • You get a more dynamic space, which is great for those who quickly get tired of a static background.
  • You can have all the photos you want without having to change the background frequently, since compositions can be made and they can be displayed as a video or as a GIF.
  • You can also animate the lock screen, which is also usually very static and monotonous.
• Disadvantages:
  • Obviously, using a GIF or video as your wallpaper or lock screen will imply that a constant graphical process is running. That means that it will be taking up hardware resources (CPU time, GPU time, and memory), so performance may be affected slightly on smartphones with powerful chips, and more considerably on more modest phones.
  • Constant use of these resources also leads to higher battery consumption compared to a static background. Therefore, it is also likely that your autonomy will be somewhat worse.
  • You need third-party apps to be able to use these videos or GIFs, so you must install them from Google Play, without the possibility of doing so with the built-in functions of the Android system. And not all that exist are free.

Of course, you must have the video you want to put as background or the GIF you want already downloaded to your local memory so that it can be used from the following apps. They can also be videos or GIFs made by yourself. As for the video format, they generally support a large number of them, such as 3gp, mp4, etc.

How to put a video as a wallpaper with Video Live Wallpaper

The developer NAINGDroid has created a handy tool for Android known as Video Live Wallpaper. Is free, and you can download it on Google Play. Thanks to it you can configure a video as a live wallpaper. Among its functions, it also allows you to adjust the parts of the video that you want to be shown, if you want it to be played in full screen, and even if you want to activate or deactivate the audio of the video.

To know how to put a video as a wallpaper with Video Live Wallpaper, you just have to follow these steps so simple:

1. Once the Video Live Wallpaper app is downloaded and installed, the next thing is to launch the app.
2. As you can see in its graphical interface it is quite simple. You must click on the Choose Video option to choose the video you want to use as a background by searching for it in the location where you have saved it.
3. Once chosen, the video will be displayed. And you will see that there is an editor to be able to cut a piece that you want to use as wallpaper, or choose the entire video, disable or enable the sound, choose whether it fits the entire screen or if you want another aspect ratio, etc. Once you finish, press the button on the top bar.
4. Now you will have the wallpaper ready and you will be able to see a preview to see how it looks.
5. If the result is satisfactory, press Apply and you will be ready. If you want to go back to the editor to do some tweaking, tap Settings and repeat the steps from step 3.

How to put a GIF as wallpaper with GIF Live Wallpaper

GIF Live Wallpaper is another fantastic tool that you can download for free on Google Play. This one is from the developer Redwarp, and it is similar to the previous one, only in this case it is used to put animated GIFs as a wallpaper on your Android mobile. And the best thing is that it does not need root to work, it is very light, open source, it stops when the device is locked or the screen goes dark to save battery, and without ads or personal data reporting.

In this case, the steps to follow To have your GIF as wallpaper, they are also very simple:

1. Once you have downloaded and installed the GIF Live Wallpaper app, the next thing to do is launch it.
2. Now that it is open, you will see that its interface is also very simple. The first thing will be to activate it.
3. Then you have to click Open GIF.
4. Find and select the .gif you want to use as your wallpaper.
5. It allows you to see the result, and has editing tools to adjust it if necessary, such as crop the GIF, change the scale, rotate, change the color, make the GIF go faster or slower, make it loop, etc. .
6. Finally, select Set GIF as wallpaper, or lock screen background, or both at once. And you will have the background ready with the animated GIF.