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How to Set GIF as Live Wallpaper in Android

Life has definitely turned out to be super easy with smartphones and especially not to forget the android phones. Android smartphones are named as the user friendly device among all the other devices because of its flexibility. Users can literally turn their phones into the way they want and customize it as they wish not only that it also provides the opportunity to bring a new look to our phones. Today we are going to take a look at a way on how to turn our phones with a new trendy look.

I have seen many of my friends who always gets new and cute pictures to update it as their wallpaper, I have always wondered where they get those pics from and how do they always change it ones in a while. Looking at them I sometimes feel jealousy, because my android wallpaper would never be new or different. It has always been the same and boring. I wanted to make a change to it and bring a new trend out to my friends and family. I always wish to see the day when my friends would look at my phone and get awestruck.



But what new can we bring to the casual normal wallpaper? There is nothing to worry when you have in your hand is an android because as we said before androids comes with the best customization system. We can literally download any apps from the google playstore and get our works done in a short period. The same way, we can also bring a new look to our android wallpaper. Still wondering how? Well, come let me explain. You can now use a gif as a live wallpaper to your android. Where you can create a new trend among your friends.

Thereby your wallpaper will keep moving and not only that you can chose and upload any gifs or small videos from your gallery. Doesn’t that sound as something very interesting? This actually saved me from embarrassment from my friends from using the same boring wallpaper always. What actually turned out to happen was, everyone started requesting me to reveal how I got it done, how I have a gif as my phone’s wallpaper. 


So here I am to reveal the secret. It’s just a very simple method. All you will need is the right application from the google playstore. There are many apps that does the same, but from what I came through, I noticed most of the apps stops working half the way or they start to lag the phone. Thereby let’s see what application works best and how to get it done.


Set GIF as Live Wallpaper in Your Android

You have to get the app named ‘Giphy’ directly from google playstore to your android smartphone or tablet.

Let’s move on to know how to turn your android device with a trendy gif wallpaper within a few seconds.

Firstly launch the app and then you will see thousands of gifs available in it. You can chose the gif that you wish and download it to your phone.


Thereafter, you have to get the app name ‘GIF Live Wallpaper’ directly from google playstore to your android device and install it.


Then launch the app and it will ask you a few permissions to be granted. Simply grant them.


Next, you have to upload the downloaded gif to the app ‘GIF live wallpaper’.


Once it’s uploaded, by choosing the left side menu you can adjust the size, speed color and edit it as you wish.


When done, you will notice the option which mentions to set the GIF as the wallpaper. To set it you have to press on the ‘Apply’ option.


That’s it, now you can go back and see how the gif that you chose has turned out to be a wonderful wallpaper in your android smartphone. It will keep moving and work on the background. 

So you can download both the 'Giphy' app and 'GIF live wallpaper' directly from google playstore to your android device from the links given below.

This is going to be an interesting change in your android and you are all going to enjoy it. finding a perfect gif also not difficult now as you have the app that provides you with unlimited gifs and most importantly setting a gif instead of a normal picture as your wallpaper is now within your fingertips. It is simple to use and a trendy change. I hope this guide would have been helpful for the trendy looking android users.