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verushka70(posted by email)
I just had to share this.
This free, open-source software (FOSS) app lets you set ANY animated GIF you've DLed to your phone as a "live" wallpaper (for home screen & lock screen) !
Even better, this app is ad-free, privacy-respecting; does NOT require ANY special phone access permissions; & thus does NOT invade your private phone data, to mine it & sell it to Big Data companies.* It is simple yet effective & "does what it says on the tin."
Alas, you can't have two different animated GIFs for home & lock screen wallpapers - but that's a limitation of the Android OS, not the app itself. Please don't low-star the app for that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.redwarp.gifwallpaper
So head over there if you want to make any of your favorite animated GIFs into a "live" wallpaper. I guess you could say this is a one trick pony app - but the fact that it does what it says it will, w/o sucking my private phone data up & tracking me -- two thumbs up from me! Plus I always like to support smaller FOSS developers. There may well be a paid version eventually, but right now it's FOSS.
So grab it while you can, & sleep a little more soundly at night, knowing this app doesn't track exactly how long you stared at your favorite slashy/kinky fanart on AO3 or DW in your phone's browser (...ahem...), or how many times you replayed your favorite fanvid on Vimeo or YT. (Just sayin'. Heh.)
And please, do NOT mistakenly install the "Live GIF Wallpaper" app by VinesStudioTech. It's exactly the same app, but it doesn't acknowledge or credit the original FOSS app (& developer redwarp) that I'm reccing here) as providing its source code -- plus it's approx 5 times larger, which usually means a lot of added code to secretly mine data off your phone. No. Just, no.
*IDK about you, but I hunt for apps of that description (or at least apps using the minimum permissions necessary to do what the app's supposed to do). Because, yes, I donate to EFF & I'm a privacy advocate (nut?).
Why? Because I remember way back when the Internet was benign, ad-free, & not tracking everything you do 24/7/365. (If you haven't seen the Netflix documentaries The Great Hack & The Social Dilemma, you really should. They're hella frightening. & worse is yet to come. Trust me.)
Well, I really miss those halcyon early Internet days. One of the reasons I love AO3 is that it reminds me of back when ALL web sites had no autoplaying & inescapable ads, videos, & seemingly forced sign-ups. Those were the days, my friend...