Android 7.1.2 beta has been available for a short while, and the incremental update brought a few new features to Pixel and late-generation Nexus devices. One feature that Droid-Life points out is the ability to decide where you want to set a live wallpaper. A new option allows you to choose whether to set the live wallpaper on the home screen (only) or both the lock screen and home screen. Before that, you were stuck with a live wallpaper in both the lock screen and home screen. This works with Google's integrated wallpapers in the Google Pixel devices. Which Google then released...
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