Unsupported Android 8.1+ devices - question

[ChiasaChan]

Hi,
not too long ago I bought a Cubot Max 3 which had everything I wanted - big screen, notification LED, replaceable battery, dual sim plus microSD, NFC. But after I received it, I noticed it did NOT have support for Live Wallpapers, despite running on Android 11.
I was completely baffled and wrote to Cubot support, who simply confirmed the device does not support them (although my first ancient 512mb ram 4" phone already was able to have them 8 years ago on android 4.1.1).

Is there any way to make Wallpaper Engine on Android support phones that do not support Live Wallpapers *natively*? Like instead of using the built-in android live wallpaper routines adding the needed routines to the app itself?

[Tim]

This type of thing is very standardized in Android, if the device claims it cannot handle live wallpapers - for whatever reason - then an app cannot just circumvent that. Live wallpapers on Android are also basically handled by Android itself, so only something like a custom ROM could get this to work, as the limitation is set by the device manufacturer.

[ChiasaChan]

Thanks, I feared that might be the case, really sad and I don't understand why they chose to do that. Won't buy another phone by them again although I was happy with the first generation Cubot Max in 2016.

[bmmmb]

But something could theoretically make this work right?