You'll need a rooted Android phone and either a custom ROM that offers animation changes or a boot screen manager such as boot Animations for Android or Aniboot.

Good news for those of you that are tired of your generic boot animations on your Android devices— a forum member on XDA Developers, Vincent8111, has compiled about 400 custom boot animations ...

The latest build of Android Q, Beta 5, dropped today and brings dark theme to a new, unexpected location, the Pixel 3 boot animation.

Anyhow, you may have already noticed that some of the shots of the Nexus One clearly show a boot screen with a cross pattern colored thusly, and it turns out there's an Android 2.1 dump floating ...

It's kind of a tradition now for the Android team to create different boot animations for every Android release, and Jelly Bean is definitely no exception.

I first stumbled upon the work of Croatian artist Paolo Ceric a few months ago on Google Plus. I was in awe with the beauty of Ceric’s animated GIFs, which typically depict abstract shapes that move ...

Most users will probably look at this unusual boot animation tweak and wonder why in the world anyone would do this, but developers and Linux lovers will nostalgically giggle and cheer. Rather ...

The iPhone rumors are starting to die down and we all pretty much know what that device will look like so what do we do now? Android Nougat rumors and leaks of course. We were hit up by an anonymous ...

How to Make an Android Incredible Boot Animation. When you turn on your Android Incredible phone, the manufacturer logo appears, followed by the boot animation. This is a short graphical display ...

Google surprisingly added a neat little touch to the latest update on Pixel phones, extending Android 12's colors to the boot animation.

The Bokeh animation above should be a good indication for you of how fricking cool these animations are. Ready to give them a go? Check out the DL links after the break along with the instructions.

The Android Marshmallow boot animation has been ripped from a developer preview and is available as an APK download.