Get current wallpaper absolute path?

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Sekar picture Sekar · Jul 6, 2012 · Viewed 82.1k times · Source

How do we get a current wallpaper absolute path

Answer

Tim Smart picture Tim Smart · Dec 29, 2012

On Android 4.2 the wallpaper is located at:

/data/system/users/0/wallpaper

Replace the 0 with your user id (take a look in /data/system/users).

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