![]() Instead it’s more of a photojournalism kind of vibe wherein articles from major publications with good photos attached end up featured. At first read, you’d assume that it would be actively displaying news (perhaps like a ticker tape on the bottom of the screen or what have you). The News and Lifestyle category is kind of a curious one. The images that cycle by are really something to behold and highlight a wide range of natural and geologic structures from around the world. We weren’t too excited about this particular feature at first, but after seeing that it’s a hand curated collection of really beautiful satellite imagery we’ve been won over. Satellite Images provides stunning images from the Google Earth collection. The name of the work, the author, and the collect it is from is listed beneath the weather/clock widget. The Art category pulls artwork from Google’s Open Gallery and Cultural Institute. Not only do we see a photo of our dog Cricket (the same photo we uploaded in the previous step) but we also see the weather and time in the lower right corner. The above is an example of the personal wallpaper screen with the weather enabled. Lets’ take a closeup look at what each of these options entails. In addition to toggling on your personal photos you can also toggle on Weather, Art, News and Lifestyle, Satellite Images, and Feature Photos. Select the albums (you can select as many as you wish) and return to the previous screen when you’re done. If you select “Your Photos” you’ll see a screen like the following which allows you to pick which Google+ albums you wish to use. The settings are pretty straight forward. ![]() On the next screen you’ll see the actual Backdrop preferences where you can toggle display types and settings off. Configure the Display via the Chromecast AppĪlbum created, it’s time to fire up the new Chomecast app and start supplying our Chromecast with personalized wallpaper. You can also use other albums in your Google+ account as well (we’ll show you how in the next step). You can repeat this process to add more images in the future. Click the “Add to album” drop down menu, as seen in the screenshot above, and create a new album (such as “Chromecast Wallpaper”) for your wallpaper image. Navigate to your photos via the “home” button drop down menu located in the upper left corner or jump directly there with this link.Ĭlick on “add photos” in the navigation bar and then drag and drop the photos you want to use as Chromecast wallpaper onto the upload tool. Visit and sign into your Google account. For the purposes of this tutorial we’ll assume you’re not a regular Google+ user and you need to create a simple private album for your wallpaper images. You can use existing albums or create a new one dedicated just to Chromecast wallpapers. Wallpapers: Hand-picked wallpapers courtesy of your device manufacturer that come preloaded on your device.Currently the only source of wallpaper images accessible to the Chromecast is Google+ albums.Live Wallpapers: A set number of Live Wallpapers come loaded on your device.Gallery: If you select Gallery, you'll be able to use a photo you've either taken yourself or have saved to your device. Once you open the wallpaper settings, you're given three options to choose from: If you're unable to locate the wallpaper settings, we'll show you how to find it on the next slide. If you're running Android 3.0 or earlier, you can change your wallpaper by pressing the Menu key while on the homescreen and selecting Wallpaper. On a device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, I was instantly given the option to choose the source of my next wallpaper. On most devices a menu will pop up, giving you an option to add widgets or change your wallpaper. Most Android devices have a homescreen shortcut that allows you to access your device's wallpaper setting just by touching your wallpaper for a few seconds until your device vibrates.
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