The list ofour favorite Android appscontains plenty of wallpaper apps that can make your home screen stand out. But if you want something different, you can create your unique emoji wallpaper to personalize your phone’s home screen to your taste. The Google Emoji Workshop app lets you create fun emoji wallpapers that even animate. While the app is exclusive to Google Pixel phones, you can also get it on other Android devices, including thebest Samsung phones.
Follow this guide to learn how to create and customize emoji wallpaper on your Android phone.
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What is Emoji Wallpaper?
As the name suggests, Emoji Wallpaper lets you create wallpapers containing your favorite emoji. You can have up to 14 emoji characters in a wallpaper, with its patterns and colors customizable as you like. All emoji wallpapers you generate are live wallpapers by default. They react to your touch and animate when you put your phone on charge or lock and unlock it.
The charging animation replaces the emoji in your wallpaper with the lighting icon for a few seconds. This animation happens every time you put or remove your Google Pixel from charging.
Emoji Wallpaper is available on Google Pixel phones runningAndroid 14 August 2025 Feature Drop. However, you can sideload the Emoji Workshop app to get the feature on your device as long as it runsAndroid 13.
How to create an emoji wallpaper
Before starting with the steps below, ensure theEmoji Workshop Wallpaper appis installed on your Google Pixel. The app is not compatible with non-Pixel phones, but you cansideload the APKto get the app running on your phone.
you may create multiple emoji wallpapers on your phone. They are accessible from Emoji Workshop inSettings>Wallpaper & style>Change wallpaper. Or you can long-press on your Pixel’s home screen to get to theWallpaper & stylemenu.
How to customize an existing emoji wallpaper
Google lets you customize your created emoji wallpapers. You don’t have to create a new wallpaper and start from scratch if you want to make changes to an existing wallpaper.
How to get Google’s emoji wallpapers on any Android phone
The Emoji Workshop Wallpaper app should work on most Android phones running a recent build of Android 13.
Personalize your Android phone’s home screen
Emoji wallpaper is just one of the many ways you’re able to customize your Android phone’s home screen to your taste. You can always use acustom launcherwith one of ourfavorite icon packsto add more style to your home screen. And then addsome handy widgetsto increase its usefulness.
