Ways to personalize our mobile phone there's a lot. Most of them are small changes that we can apply ourselves without much knowledge: change the ringtone, change the Android launcher, install an icon pack compatible with said launcher, change the text size... all these are things that we can do basic Only a few require special permissions, but this is not what this article is about.
Precisely, one of the simplest operations that can be done to customize an Android device is create a wallpaper. It would be easier to set a default one by downloading it from the Internet or from a specific application, but we believe that to give the matter a more personal touch, it is worth creating your own. For this we are going to give you a series of applications below.
PhotoPhase
PhotoPhase is an app that allows us create an animated wallpaper for our Android terminal. Its main function is similar to that of programs for Linux such as Shotwell, Variety or Wallch (although there is also similar software for other operating systems, the ones we mentioned were the pioneers): it allows us to choose from the images that we have on our phone to create an animation.
It should be clarified that the term “animation” does not refer to our wallpapers coming to life, but to the background will change during the day. Likewise, PhotoPhase allows us to choose the design of the animation, the way in which the photos are going to be displayed, and it will even allow us to apply effects, which will help make our animation more visually interesting.
PhotoPhase it is an interesting solution which can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store. To do this, it is as easy as clicking on the button that you will see below.
Wallpaper Editor, Photos-Wallpaper Modder
Behind this convoluted name is an app that allows us to create a wallpaper and edit it. To put it roughly, it works as a kind of equivalent to what Instagram or Snapseed are for photos taken with the phone. That is, we can choose any photo that we have in the gallery and apply filters and edit so that it acquires a new dimension.
The idea is get a 100% unique background with any of the images that we have available in our terminal, for which the app also offers us a whole set of editing tools. The idea is to provide the user with ways to have completely unique creations as wallpaper.
It should be mentioned that, although the app can be downloaded for free, there are purchases within it to unlock certain advanced editing features as well as remove ads.
Tapet
Although in the two apps that we have just seen it was you who had to take care of the matter of generating the wallpapers, in Tapet it is the application itself that takes care of generate said wallpaper by the user. It is not that we have control to generate it, but we can customize some settings to fit our phone and our tastes in a more precise way.
The app allows us to choose which color combinations are going to be used to create a wallpaper, and also gives us the possibility to create our own color filters. Besides, there are also predefined backgrounds that we can place on our phone within the application itself. Now, some of these funds are paid.
Cartograph
Among the applications to create wallpapers that we are seeing in this article, Cartogram may be the most interesting of the whole bunch, precisely because of its peculiar way of working. What this app does is create a wallpaper based on our location and taking a map of the area, which is what we can place as a background image. It is worth noting that, every time we change location, a new background can be generated.
The application offers us 30 different styles of map backgrounds that can be used and applied to any creation made with it. It is worth mentioning that Cartogram adapts to the type of screen we are using, since if the phone has an OLED or AMOLED screen, since the black colors are pixels that are turned off to create this color, the power consumption is reduced.
Keep in mind that Cartogram offers many customization possibilities, which means that our creations will be able to be as unique as we want. At the end of the day, that should be the goal when it comes to personalizing a phone: to make it unique for the user and give identity to their terminal.
As a final note, keep in mind that Cartogram not a free app. If you want to download it, you will have to pay 2,49 euros in the Google Play Store.
