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Pixel Live Wallpaper update enables Material You Dynamic Color theming on Android 12

Wallpaper-based theming is the main highlight of Android 12 and Material You. However, Dynamic Color did not initially work with the Pixel Live Wallpaper collection/category, and an app update rolling out this week remedies that.

At launch, Dynamic Color was only able to pull color from static backgrounds. The Pixel’s delightful collection of live wallpapers were excluded from theming, with the Wallpaper & style app only showing a non-themed default (blue) palette in the “Wallpaper colors” tab. Of course, you were free to choose from one of the four “Basic colors.”

With Android 12 Beta 4.1 (Beta 4 presumably also works, but it definitely doesn’t on Beta 3) and version 1.6 of the Pixel Live Wallpaper app, Dynamic Color can start extracting from these videos/animations.

For example, “Flying above, Monument Valley” shows three color options where sand/beige is the dominant hue. “A walk in the clouds, Hawaii” also offers green dominant palettes.

Pixel Live Wallpaper 1.6 is rolling out now via the Play Store, or you can sideload it. Users should note that the latter install method appears to delete your downloaded live backgrounds. (That occured to me on two test devices.) This is quite inconvenient if you’ve downloaded several of these large files.

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Author: Abner Li
Source: 9TO5Google

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