Create Your Own Boot Animation

Create Your Own Boot Animation

So you want to put the artist inside you at work and create your very own boot animation? It’s so easy even a child can do it, and we are going to show you how.

If you have found a boot animation that is made for higher resolution devices and you have a low resolution one, you can use this method to edit those to fit your device as well.

Requirements:

• A zip/unzip utility like 7-Zip
• Image editor of your choice like PhotoShop, GIMP, Paint.NET, heck even MS Paint will do.
• A plain text editor of your choice. Using Windows Notepad for editing text files that are to be used in Linux is not always a good idea, so use something like Notepad++ instead.
• As much time and creativity as you are willing to put into the task.
• You must know the screen resolution of your device if you don’t know it already. You can find the resolution by searching for your device specifications on Google.
  Note: A high resolution device will be able to play a boot animation made for a low resolution device but it will not take up the whole screen, while a high resolution boot animation will not display completely on a low resolution screen device.

Procedure:

1. Go through the entire Inside the bootanimation.zip File section of this guide first, if you haven’t already done so.
2. Plan how your boot animation will run. This includes how many distinct parts it will have, how long will each part play and what will be the sequence of the parts.
3. Make a new folder at any convenient location on your computer, and name it bootanimation.
4. In this folder, create a folder for each part of your boot animation, named part0, part1 and so on.
5. In the image editor of your choice, make all the image files for each part of your boot animation with the proper dimensions equal to your phone’s screen resolution, and save them in the respective folder for each part, in PNG format. Up to 32 bit PNGs are supported.
   Note: In case you are converting an existing boot animation to fit your phone’s screen, simply extract the images from it and resize each of them to your device’s screen resolution.
6. Make sure the images are named in numerical format and in proper sequence, i.e. the images in the first part should start with let’s say 00000.jpg and go on till 00075.jpg, and the images in the second part should then start off with 00076.jpg and go o

   Create Your Own Boot Animation

   So you want to put the artist inside you at work and create your very own boot animation? It’s so easy even a child can do it, and we are going to show you how.
   If you have found a boot animation that is made for higher resolution devices and you have a low resolution one, you can use this method to edit those to fit your device as well.
   Requirements:
   • A zip/unzip utility like 7-Zip
   • Image editor of your choice like PhotoShop, GIMP, Paint.NET, heck even MS Paint will do.
   • A plain text editor of your choice. Using Windows Notepad for editing text files that are to be used in Linux is not always a good idea, so use something like Notepad++ instead.
   • As much time and creativity as you are willing to put into the task.
   • You must know the screen resolution of your device if you don’t know it already. You can find the resolution by searching for your device specifications on Google.
     Note: A high resolution device will be able to play a boot animation made for a low resolution device but it will not take up the whole screen, while a high resolution boot animation will not display completely on a low resolution screen device.
   Procedure:
   1. Go through the entire Inside the bootanimation.zip File section of this guide first, if you haven’t already done so.
   2. Plan how your boot animation will run. This includes how many distinct parts it will have, how long will each part play and what will be the sequence of the parts.
   3. Make a new folder at any convenient location on your computer, and name it bootanimation.
   4. In this folder, create a folder for each part of your boot animation, named part0, part1 and so on.
   5. In the image editor of your choice, make all the image files for each part of your boot animation with the proper dimensions equal to your phone’s screen resolution, and save them in the respective folder for each part, in PNG format. Up to 32 bit PNGs are supported.
      Note: In case you are converting an existing boot animation to fit your phone’s screen, simply extract the images from it and resize each of them to your device’s screen resolution.
   6. Make sure the images are named in numerical format and in proper sequence, i.e. the images in the first part should start with let’s say 00000.jpg and go on till 00075.jpg, and the images in the second part should then start off with 00076.jpg and go on till – for instance – 00123.jpg.
   7. Once you have the images for all the parts done and saved with proper names in each folder, create a text file named desc.txt in the main bootanimation folder.
   8. Open the text file in a text editor and edit it in the format described in detail in the desc.txt filesection above. Do consider that a frame rate higher than 30 fps can give issues on many devices.
      Note: In case you are converting an existing boot animation to fit your phone’s screen, keep everything the same as in the original desc.txt file and change only the resolution.
   9. Now select everything inside the bootanimationfolder and zip them into a new uncompressed zip archive using your favorite compression utility. Here is the method using 7-zip:
      1. Select everything inside the bootanimation folder.
      2. Right-click on any of the selected files/folders and from the 7-zip menu, select ‘Add to archive’.
      3. Use ‘zip’ as the archive format and ‘Store’ as the compression level, and click OK. This will create a file called bootanimation.zip in the same folder.
   That’s it – you have created your own Android boot animation! The only thing left now is to apply it to your device, so let’s get on with it.n till – for instance – 00123.jpg.
7. Once you have the images for all the parts done and saved with proper names in each folder, create a text file named desc.txt in the main bootanimation folder.
8. Open the text file in a text editor and edit it in the format described in detail in the desc.txt filesection above. Do consider that a frame rate higher than 30 fps can give issues on many devices.
   Note: In case you are converting an existing boot animation to fit your phone’s screen, keep everything the same as in the original desc.txt file and change only the resolution.
9. Now select everything inside the bootanimationfolder and zip them into a new uncompressed zip archive using your favorite compression utility. Here is the method using 7-zip:
   1. Select everything inside the bootanimation folder.
   2. Right-click on any of the selected files/folders and from the 7-zip menu, select ‘Add to archive’.
   3. Use ‘zip’ as the archive format and ‘Store’ as the compression level, and click OK. This will create a file called bootanimation.zip in the same folder.

That’s it – you have created your own Android boot animation! The only thing left now is to apply it to your device, so let’s get on with it.

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