Originally posted on Reddit by MishaalRahman
According to multiple users on Telegram, Google is rolling out an update to the Emoji Wallpaper app in Android 14 Beta 3.
The update shows up on Google Play as "Emoji Workshop Wallpaper" and enables you to use the emoji wallpaper feature in Wallpaper & styles.
Here's the Play Store link. The listing doesn't appear if you open Google Play on the web, but it does appear if you open it on a Pixel phone as it filters for devices that declare com.google.android.feature.PIXEL_EXPERIENCE.
There are two main differences between the prebuilt Emoji Wallpaper app in the firmware and the updated Emoji Workshop Wallpaper app.
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"Emoji Labs" in Wallpaper & style has been renamed to "Emoji Workshop"
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The emoji wallpaper is now interactive, as shown off at I/O.
The min SDK version of the Emoji Workshop Wallpaper app is 33, so it can be installed on Android 13+ devices. However, if you sideload it on a device without Google's Wallpaper & style app, you'll have to manually launch the activity to create/set the wallpaper.
Once the APK is up on APKMirror, I'll update this post with a link in case you want to sideload it on your non-Pixel device. Alternatively, you can grab the APK shared by the Google News Telegram group.