Live wallpapers help liven up your Android device. In this tutorial or Article, we show you how you can create your own live wallpapers for free.

Android-based mobiles phones and tablets have been flooding the market of late. The operating system is an open-source Linux-based program and is free for use. Not only can the operating system be tweaked for performance, but it can also be customized for eye candy. Several Android customization applications are available in the Android Market in both free and paid versions. One visual customization application that everybody loves to have on their Android devices is live animated wallpapers.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create your own custom animated live wallpapers and download them to your Android device for free.

How to create live wallpaper?

1. Log on to the www.ownskin.com

2. Click on the ‘Create Live wallpaper’ icon

3.The first screen, click on the screen resolution of your Android device.

4. Click on the ‘Create New’ button for a new one. A new window will pop up asking you to upload an image of your choice in JPG, JPEG, GIF or PNG format. Browse to the required image and click on ‘Open’.

5. The next window will highlight the area you need to crop so that your picture can fit on your screen.

6. Next, you can select animated stickers of your choice by clicking on the ‘Stickers’ button below. You can only choose from a few characters, props, designs and graphics listed there. Select any number of stickers and place them on your screens as per your choice.

7. A ‘Play’ button is available at the right of the window using which you can see the wallpaper work before creating the final APK file.

8. If you are satisfied with your work, simply click on the ‘Save’ button.

9. In the application on your phone, click on ‘Download’ and then ‘Sort’ and choose ‘My Creation’ from the list. This will take you to the ‘Login’ page. After logging in, you will see the list of wallpapers you had created on the website.

10. Click on the wallpaper and it will download it to your device.