Free Animated Themes

These are our tips for the best free and easy to use Android wall papers so you can jazz up your phone or your desktop background without having to dive into your pocket. Your first stop is to install a Google Play Store background (or wallpapers). As soon as that's done, you're almost home.

Stage 1: Keep any start-screen pressed. Stage 2: In the resulting menus, touch Wallpapers. Stage 3: Touch live backgrounds. Stage 4: Choose a Background from the results window. Stage 5: Touch the gears in the top right hand edge to change the setting of the current image. Stage 6: Touch Setup Wall Image to make the backdrop the live one.

Wallpapers from Forest Live show a dense forest surrounded by majestic mountains with a variety of dynamic features. Intuitively, a day-night rhythm lightens the colours of the paper slowly and pales them according to the season of light, and after dark a starry skies appear. Downlaod now: There's something fascinating about drops of rain dripping over a window and it' s a sense that rain drops capture wallpapers very well.

However, the real-time wall paper, which contains high-resolution videos of water droplets on a glass screen, has more to show than just rains and grey sky. There' s a subtile blurring effect that keeps the droplets from hiding your keyboard cuts and widgets, and the background image is optimised to "consume less resources" and conserve your phone's batteries.

If you' ve always wanted to have a kitten without the effort of having to change litters or fill your lounge with squeaking toy, Stalker Catalog Life wallpapers may be your best choice. Alive wall paper shows a roguish, Silhouette cats moving around the edge of the canvas. And Anne Pätzke - the painter behind the wall paper - described the small being as "subtle and enchanting", and we couldn't do more.

There are five themes in the free edition - Beach, Silent Night, Desert Walking and Grass - each with the same adjustable aesthetic. The Galaxy range is quite a rugged offer when you look at some of the flimsy backgrounds in the Google Play Store. You can choose between Ice, Inferno or Vortex Galaxy renderings, although we favor the Shadow option because it works as a deep, subtile one.

Like a spaceship observing the cosmos, the paper brings your equipment substantially into the center of a starry cosmos. Variable parameter are the number of the stars and the velocity of the animations of the heavenly body, but we were satisfied with the specifications.