From time to time from the Google Play Store comes the news of the record of installations reached by some Android application and it is no wonder that those of the Mountain View giant is the most frequent to record dizzying numbers, as it happened now for the umpteenth of the series: we are talking about Google Wallpapers.
Yes, one of the applications of the Mountain View giant dedicated to those who want to customize their Android device has exceeded 500 million downloads, thus entering a rather exclusive club and in which up to now there are no competing solutions.
The Google Wallpapers app surpasses 500 million downloads
Launched in 2016 together with the first smartphones of the Google Pixel series, the Google Wallpapers app has largely the same features as five years ago and allows users to customize the device using their own photo or one of the images provided by Google Earth as a background. and other partners of the Mountain View giant, all organized into categories for easier navigation.
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In addition, the Google application also allows you to choose your favorite category, from which a new image will be selected every day that will be applied as the background of the device, so as not to run the risk of “getting bored” always seeing the same.
And with Android 12, which with the dynamic themes feature adapts some interface elements to the background set on the device, an application like this is likely to become even more popular. Recall that in the past few hours Google Maps has reached a much more prestigious milestone, that of 10 billion downloads, a result already achieved by two other applications of the Mountain View giant, namely YouTube and Google Play Services.