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

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 ...

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 ...

An XDA user has put together a collection of boot animations for Android devices, based on the beautiful GIFs created by artist Paolo Ceric.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A system dump for the G Watch from LG has hit the web, showing off an incredibly fancy Android boot animation. We have yet to dig into the dump ourselves, but the Twitter account @UpLeaks was kind ...