Android Wallpaper Apps - For Free, Coolest and Best HD Backgrounds and Photos

In one of my previous posts I had explained the ways of changing home screen of Android phone using ADW launcher and using ADW themes for giving coolest makeover to your Google Android phone. If you have not read it yet then read it at : How-to apply iPhone theme to Google Android mobile phone using ADW Launcher . During post of ADW launcher I realized that free ADW themes comes with few wallpapers and Android lovers would need more than that and hence I decided to cover three best apps for downloading wallpapers.

In previous two posts I have covered two of the best apps for downloading coolest wallpapers for your Google Android phone. If you have missed those posts then you can read those at : Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Best Wallpapers app and Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - HD Wallpapers App

In this post I am covering the third and last wallpapers app from this series of three exciting apps for downloading free and coolest wallpapers for your Android.

Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers : Zedge is cool Android app which is three in one. It allows you to download free and cool Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Photos, Ringtones and Notification sounds. Being three in one app it is very handy because you need not install different apps to download ringtones or notification sounds for your Android phone. The user interface of this application is simple and it provides all the basic functionalities which Android user would need. When you start this app it launches with cool splash screen shown below.

Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers 

Splash screen displays "Connecting to server" message for sometime and once it connects to the server then main screen of the Zedge app for Ringtones & Wallpapers is displayed.

Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers - Main Screen

Note down the four menu buttons at the bottom of the screen. Downloads menu button shows you already downloaded Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Photos, Ringtones and Notification sounds by you. Favorites menu button shows you Wallpapers, Ringtones and Notification sounds that are marked as favorite by you. More menu button shows more options. Out of more options, FAQ is especially useful where you can read more about Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers app. Tapping the Wallpapers item from the list takes you to the Wallpapers screen displayed below.

Zedge -Wallpapers

You can see cool and beautiful Android wallpaper thumbnails arranged in tile format in screenshot above. There are many exciting wallpapers, backgrounds and photos to choose from. At bottom right corner of each wallpaper thumbnail there is heart shaped icon and you can tap it to mark this wallpaper as your favorite one. It would add this wallpaper in your favorites list. Tap any of the wallpaper thumbnail to enlarge it as shown below.

Zedge - Fire Skull Wallpaper

Screenshot above shows the enlarged wallpaper of Fire Skull. Envelope icon at the bottom of Wallpaper allows you to share this Wallpaper with others using email, bluetooth or other sharing mechanisms. Heart shaped icon allows you to mark this wallpaper as your favorite. You can tap the down arrow icon to download this wallpaper and shape of this icon changes as shown in screenshot below.

Zedge - Setting Wallpaper

As you can see, when you download the wallpaper by tapping "down arrow" icon then it changes to round shaped icon which is glowing. You can tap this round shaped glowing icon to set the given wallpaper on your phone. If you tap the home icon at top left corner of the screen then you can go back to the main screen of the Zedge Ringtones and Wallpapers app. From main screen you can tap Ringtones list item to go to the Ringtones screen.

Zedge - Ringtones 

Above screenshot displays the Ringtones screen where you can see the list of wonderful ringtones to download for your Google Android phone. You must have guessed that heart shaped icon at right of each ringtone name allows you to mark that ringtone as your favorite. Tap any of the cool ringtone and you would see following screen.

iPhone Ringtone for Android phone

This screen starts playing your selected ringtone automatically. You can hear the ringtone and decide whether you want to download by tapping down arrow icon or you want to send it to someone by tapping envelope icon or mark it as your favorite. As explained earlier you tap here the home icon at top left corner of the screen to go back to the main screen of the Zedge Ringtones and Wallpapers app. From main screen you can tap Notification sounds list item to go for downloading the Notification sounds.

Download Notification sounds for Android

This screen is very similar to that for Ringtones screen. You can tap the list item on this screen to go for downloading that Notification sound for your Android phone. It would take to the next screen displayed below.

Download iPhone 4 SMS sound for Android

This screen too start playing the selected sound as soon as it is launched. You can download the Notification sound from this screen by tapping the down arrow icon.

One interesting thing which we have not seen yet is the search facility of the Zedge app. You can tap the magnification glass icon at the top right corner of the screen whenever you would like to search Wallpapers, Ringtones and Notification sounds for Android.

Search Wallpapers, Ringtones and Notification sounds

Tapping the magnification glass brings the search input box where you can enter the kind of Wallpaper, Ringtone and Notification sound you would like to search. For example you may type iPhone to find and download iPhone Wallpapers, Ringtones and Notification sounds for your Android phone. It would display the search result as shown below.

Zedge - Search result

From above search result you can tap Wallpapers, Ringtones or Notification sounds depending on what you are looking for and it would display the Wallpaper screen or Ringtones screen or Notification sound screen which is described earlier. This way with Zedge app you can download Wallpaper, you can download Ringtones and you can download Notification sounds which can complement with ADW theme you may be using. You can also download and enjoy these without using ADW themes.

Car Mount, FM Transmitter & Charger for Android

This completes the third of the coolest three wallpaper apps for your Google Android phone. You can download and use these wallpapers, ringtones and notification sounds for all android phones, be it HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other brand in market. You can download this wonderful Zedge app from android market or any of your trusted android app store. Once you install this app, you can start downloading coolest wallpapers, nice ringtones and wonderful notification sounds for your Android. With this app on your Android phone you would never again feel short of wallpapers, ringtones and notification sounds. If you liked any of the posts about cool apps then come back and check again for more best apps for Android.

Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Best Wallpapers app

In last post I talked about how you can quickly replace the default android home screen and theme with fancy iPhone look alike theme. But you must have noticed that free themes comes with limited wallpapers and you may not like the ones which are there in the theme. This can be taken care by downloading cool and free wallpapers for your android using wallpaper apps. These free wallpapers can be used with your HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other Android phone.

There are two kinds of wallpapers for Android, Image Background Wallpapers and Live Wallpapers. Image backgrounds are the traditional wallpapers which we know and "live wallpapers" are the new type of wallpapers which comes with animation effect and are interactive. I am going to cover traditional wallpapers in this post and I may talk about live wallpapers in some future posts but you can find and download cool live wallpapers from Android market today.

I am covering three of the coolest apps for free Android wallpapers in this series of posts. In this post I am talking about the first coolest wallpapers app and remaining two apps in coming posts.

Best Wallpapers : This is the first coolest app for Android which I am covering in this series of three. Best Wallpapers app is simple and provides collection of beautiful and cool wallpapers. It provides all the necessary basic features which you may need when it comes to searching, downloading and setting wallpaper for your Android. For searching this cool app in Android market use keywords "best wallpapers" and you should be able to find it. When you tap the app from the list then you would see its information as given in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers in Android Market

As you can see the title of the application displayed in Android market info is "Best Wallpapers & Backgrounds". Install this app on your phone and you are ready to go. Once installed, tap its icon to launch it and you would see its first screen as shown below.

Best Wallpapers - Main Screen

On its main screen it displays the recently popular wallpapers. You can see more wallpapers of this category by tapping "Next" button. You can always come back to see previous wallpapers by tapping "Prev" button. This is just one of the categories of wallpapers and you can tap "Categories" button to see the list of Categories as shown in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers - Categories

As you can see there are many different categories of wallpapers like Cars, Nature, Babes, Winter, Space, Drops, Animals, Flowers, Mountains etc. These category menus allow you to find the wallpapers in those category. For example, the screenshot below displays the cool wallpapers of beautiful flowers.

Best Wallpapers - Flowers

You can see how beautiful these wallpapers are. You can see more flowers by tapping "Next" button at bottom right of the app. Tap the wallpaper you like and it would we enlarged as shown in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers - Enlarged

Here you have two buttons. "Set Wallpaper" button as it's name indicates allows you to set the selected image as your Android phone's wallpaper. But in case if you do not like to set the wallpaper right away even if you liked it because you still want to explore more then you can put it in your favorite list by tapping "Favorite" button. You can see your favorite wallpapers by tapping "Favorites" button from main screen of the app. This would display the list of favorite wallpapers as shown below.

Best Wallpapers - Favorite List

From main screen you can tap a search icon to find wallpapers which are not listed in predefined categories menu of the app. For example, you can search for "iPhone" to find the wallpapers of iPhone. This can be very useful if you have already applied iPhone theme using "Adw Launcher" as I explained in my previous post and looking for more cool iPhone wallpapers. If you have not read that post then you can read it here - How-to apply iPhone theme to Google Android mobile phone using ADW Launcher. Following screenshots shows the the search result of iPhone wallpapers.

Best Wallpapers - iPhone Wallpapers

You can see some cool iPhone wallpaper in this search result and you can see more by tapping "Next" button. You can use these iPhone wallpapers along with iPhone ADW theme and can achieve more close iPhone lookalike theme for your Android phone.

Best Wallpapers app provides few settings to fine tune its behavior. Press the menu button of your phone and tap the "Preferences" menu to see the settings as given below.

Best Wallpapers - Settings

"Filter Adult" is specially useful setting and when checked, it filters the adult images and displays the other non -adult wallpapers. "Add to favorites" setting when checked, keeps adding the wallpapers to your favorite when you set those on your phone.

So this brings us to end of this post about first of the coolest three wallpaper apps for your Google Android phone be it HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other Android phone in market. Don't download app .apk file from untrusted sources. Instead you can download Best Wallpapers app from android market or any of your trusted source and then download cool android wallpapers using the app. In coming posts I would be covering two more such cool apps and you would enjoy those as much as you enjoyed this one. Keep checking back for more coolest Android apps.

Android Home Screen Replacement - Using Free ADW Launcher and iPhone Themes

You can quickly replace the default android home screen and theme with fancy theme like iPhone look alike theme. You can do this Android home replacement with a free app called ADW.Launcher. But doing Android home replacement using ADW.Launcher is bit tricky for normal phone users and I am going to teach you how-to get up and running with ADW.Launcher in no time.

Download And Install ADW Launcher From Android Market : You can download the ADW Launcher .apk file from many sources on net but I would suggest you to download app apk from your trusted sources only. Similarly you may find many ADW Themes for free download on internet and I would again suggest that download themes from your trusted sources only.

One of the trusted sources is Google Android market. Launch the Android market app on your mobile phone and search for ADW Launcher. You could find free version of ADW Launcher as well as Pro and Ex versions which are paid. Tap ADW Launcher which is free and you would see it's description as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher on Android Market

Tap the "FREE" button to proceed for installation to your phone. Once you initiate the installation of ADW Launcher then go back to search of Android Market and search for "ADW theme free".

Download And Install ADW Launcher Themes : This would show you list of ADW themes available for your phone. Some of the free themes on Android market are displayed in screenshot below.

Free ADW Themes

You can install the themes you like but if you are interested in iPhone kind of look & feel then install ADW IPhroid IPhone Free theme. You can also try out ADWTheme MiPhone Free theme. Once you have installed  ADW Launcher and one of the ADW themes then you are ready to try out Android home replacement.

Get Started With Android Home Screen Replacement : The tricky part of adw launcher and these installed adw themes is none of these appear as applications in app drawer. To start using installed ADW Launcher press the home button of your Android mobile phone. This would display a menu shown in  following screenshot.

Home Screen Launcher Menu

If you notice there is a checkbox "Use by default for this action". If you check this ON then next time this menu would not be displayed and selected Launcher would be launched instead. I suggest to keep it OFF till you carry out all your trials and get comfortable with new ADW Launcher and themes. After applying any theme if it get force closed then the only easy option to recover is press the home button and tap "TwLauncher" option. This would bring you back to good old default home screen of your Android phone. To start using ADW Launcher, tap "ADW.Launcher" option.

ADW Launcher Settings For Android Home Screen Replacement : You can see the new look of the ADW Launcher's default theme in screenshot below. This does not replace your wallpaper which you have already set.

ADW Launcher in Action

Notice the three icons at the bottom bar. The left icon with gray star icon is where you can drop any shortcut from your desktop to make it your favorite. Center icon with four boxes is for opening or closing app drawer. App drawer is where you find all your installed apps. Rightmost icon is your mobile browser shortcut. Now press the menu button of your phone to see the menus of ADW Launcher.

ADW Launcher Menu

Add menu is to add items to your desktop, wallpaper is to set the wallpaper you like, Search is to launch Google search bar, Edit is to edit the desktops and Settings is our good old settings menu.  If you tap the more menu then you can see two more menus as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher More Menus

Lock desktop menu locks your desktop icons and settings from accidentally being modified. You should do this ideally when all your desktop settings are done. You can unlock using the same menu if you want to do any changes. Tap the ADWSettings menu to launch the ADW Settings screen.

ADW Settings 

There are many choices here and you can explore those and try out in leisure. One of the interesting menus and in which we are interested now is "Themes Preferences".

Applying iPhone Theme To Android Phone : Tap this menu to proceed for trying out new iPhone theme for your Android phone.

Themes Preferences

Now tap "Select your theme" option to launch the dialog which displays the available themes you have on your phone. This include those which you have recently installed and default one from ADW Launcher.

ADW Launcher - Select your theme

The content of this dialog would differ depending on which themes you have installed on your Android phone. For iPhone like look & feel select the theme "ADWTheme_Blazing_IP" option. This is nothing but the "ADW IPhroid IPhone Free" theme which we installed earlier.

ADWTheme IPHROID Preview

You would need to scrolldown to see the preview of the theme and available buttons for actions to take. You can see the button like iPhone in the preview.

ADWTheme IPHROID Preview Scrolled

"Get themes!" button take you to the Android market store. You can start using this new iPhone like theme by tapping "Apply theme!" button.

iPhone look a like Theme for Android 

Voila, you can see now your selected Android theme in action. You can see how shortcuts are looking like those on iPhone. Next you can go ahead and change the wallpaper with the one you like and start putting required widgets on your desktops.

Resizing Widgets With ADW Launcher Home Screen Replacement : There are many interesting features and settings in ADW Launcher. One of those which worth mentioning here is you can resize the widgets on Android home screen or desktop. Let me show you how.

Gadget Context Menu

When you long press any widget on your desktop like a clock shown in screenshot above, it displays the context menu with choices "Remove", "Edit", "Uninstall". Remove just takes away the widget from your desktop and Uninstall removes it from your mobile phone. If you tap Edit then it would allow you to resize the widget as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher - Edit Gadget

You can see that it display four double arrows using which you can resize the widget as you like. This is very handy when you want the large or small clock widget on your Android home screen. You can simply resize the clock to match your taste. If you are looking for cool, beautiful and best Android widgets then you can read about it at : Best Android Widgets - Clock, Weather, Calendar, Power Control, Music, Dictionary And SMS Widgets To Personalize And Beautify Your Google Android Home Screen

Here is one youtube video which you may find useful to understand ADW.Launcher well

There are many other settings and features available with ADW Launcher and you can explore those further. There are many free and paid ADW themes available for Android which you can use with ADW.Launcher and you should try those. One suggestion which I would like to repeat is, download free ADW.Launcher app apk and free ADW theme apks from your trusted sources only.

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