How to add your own boot animation and wallpaper

You can make your devices show your own brand. Replace the Android boot animation (what the screen shows while the device starts) and the desktop wallpaper (the background picture on the home screen) with your own. You set this up once in the Emteria Hub, and every new device gets it on its first start.

What you need

Your devices download the branding files from the internet while they set themselves up. So you need a place to host the files, ideally on your own domain, for example your company's web server. Free file-sharing services aren't a good fit: their links often change, expire or show a download page instead of the file.

Each link must:

• lead directly to the file, without a login, a download page or a redirect,
• show the file name at the end,
• keep working for as long as you set up new devices.

Good examples:

• https://www.example.com/branding/bootanimation.zip
• https://downloads.example.com/android/wallpaper.png

The files themselves:

• Boot animation: a .zip file in the Android boot animation format.
• Wallpaper: an image file, for example .png or .jpg.

You can use only one of the two, or both. If you'd like help creating a boot animation, contact us.

Add your branding

1. Log in to the Emteria Hub and open Provisioning.
2. Choose your provisioning settings or create new ones.
3. Scroll down to Product branding.
4. Paste the link to your boot animation into Boot animation URL, for example https://www.example.com/branding/bootanimation.zip.
5. Paste the link to your wallpaper into Default wallpaper URL, for example https://downloads.example.com/android/wallpaper.png.
6. Click Save.
7. Export the provisioning settings and use them to set up your devices, as described in the introduction to device provisioning.

Tip: Before you set up many devices, open both links in a private browser window. If the file downloads right away, the link works.