r/AndroidHomescreen

Smart launcher.

Pix wallpapers.

PixChroma Icons and widgets.

How's my home screen and lock screen setup?

I’ve been working on Slate Launcher, a new minimal Android launcher focused on keeping your phone clean, personal, and less distracting.

Slate is built around things like Spaces, Focus profiles, Slate Hub, widgets, customization, Slate Brief, and smart app suggestions — while keeping the overall experience simple.

I’ve already started building the community before the public launch.

If you’d like to:

follow development and upcoming releases

suggest features

share your setups

report bugs and give feedback

talk directly about where Slate should go next

you’re welcome to join.

Discord:

https://discord.gg/kgNPcVSkd3

Reddit community:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatelauncher

I’m building Slate as an independent project, so early feedback from Android users genuinely helps shape what gets built.

Would love to hear what you want from a modern Android launcher. 🚀

I’ve been experimenting with a different kind of screen-time app for Android.

Instead of blocking apps or throwing another warning popup at you, Stop Swarm gradually changes what’s happening on your screen as you approach your daily screen-time goal.

This is the new Clouds theme: the weather slowly gets worse the more you use your phone. Clouds build up, become larger and darker, rain gets heavier, and eventually the storm takes over the screen.

The overlay doesn’t intercept touches, so your phone remains fully usable. The idea is simply to make excessive scrolling progressively harder to ignore, without completely locking you out.

Stop Swarm is Android only, works fully offline, requires no account, and contains no ads or analytics.

I’m still looking for beta testers if anyone here wants to try it:

https://groups.google.com/g/stop-swarm-testers

Then opt in and download it here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stopswarm.app

I built this app that can replicate the NothingOS Atmosphere transition on any device running Android 13+. It has other transitions and each transition have reverse as well. It is super optimized and only works during locking and unlocking of the device and It is completely Open-source under MIT License.

Feature Highlights:

* Atmosphere Effect (NothingOS Atmosphere Effect)

* Frosted Blur (Simple Blur)

* Halftone (comic print style)

* Color Fill (Monochrom to Colorful transition)

* Canvas Sketch (Sketch to full image transition)

* Playlist (Have multiple wallpaper and switch automatically based on your own choice)

Version:

* Github hosts two main versions which are for android 13+ & android 16+.

* F-droid hosts version 13+.

* Play Store have version for android 15+.

You can download it from Github, F-droid and Play Store.

I would love to hear your feedback.

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m building a new Android launcher and would love your honest feedback. Please try it and let me know what you like and what I can improve. 🙌

Playing around with my launcher. What's your favorite set up? With icons or without?

I have 2 designs which one do u think is better ?

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aeroloom.korelauncher

I wanted a launcher that could be completely customized without becoming a pain to use so I built Kore Launcher.

One tap and your entire launcher UI transforms.

And if you want to go deeper, you can customize pretty much everything: themes, icons, widgets, layouts, folders, gestures, and more.

The goal is simple: make your phone actually feel like yours.

If you could change ONE thing about your current launcher, what would it be? 👀

The smartphone's home screen is the user's most valuable digital space. It dictates productivity, focus, and daily emotional state.

Been messing around with Tree Launcher and ended up going almost completely monochrome with it. Tried keeping the main screen super clean and moving everything into separate pages instead of filling the homescreen with apps.

Still tweaking the page names/layout, but I think this one's getting pretty close 👀

Launcher: Tree Launcher ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.treelauncher)

Widget: Koda For Kustom ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kodaforkustom.droidbeauty.pack )

Wallpaper: Pixdots KWGT Wall51

Details: ⬇️

• Pix material Icons

• One4Home launcher

• One4Wall (#Prism Drift)

• Foxie Kwgt

Cool launcher, let's me add more than 9 apps to one card, has image on card feature, music driving mode , I can add anything to the cards from apps, shortcuts, weather, steps, notepad, displaying album, music and it lets me put the cards wherever I want, of whatever size and lets me add photos AND text to label them. The name is GT Launcher, I am not the creator

simple setup MOTO x Smartlauncher.

icon pack : Ghost Icon Pack

weather widget : Weather Master

Wallpaper : Pinterest.

This holy Launcher lets me customize everything on my home

screen using a system of flexible cards. I can put more than 9 apps on a single card, change its size, and place it anywhere on your screen, it also lets me add direct shortcuts inside the cards, like a quick button to call my friend or whoever i want, visually I have access to alot of things like putting custom images on the back of cards, displaying whole photo albums, adding text labels, and even showing info like my name, titles, your favourite characters name on top, date, and time, weather etc. It even has features like a step counter, a notepad on the card, and a dedicated car mode if your vehicle doesn't have a digital screen in it, also u can divide apps into categories with an app list u can scroll through and there's also a sidebar u can swipe open if u want. Just for the record everything i listed is optional, u can add any module to any card, colors, opacity, pictures, whatever you want, u can link direct shortcuts or just make it open the app, it also is very convenient for me, and looks good. Would suggest it, the NAME is GT Launcher, u can get it on Google playstore. Let me know if you need any help in navigation of the app or otherwise, I am NOT the creator but I do

know the creator

I’ve been working on nbOS, a custom Android launcher built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

The goal is to bring the visual language of my Linux/Niri setup to Android while keeping the wallpaper as the main visual element. Instead of filling the screen with permanent widgets, nbOS presents information in compact panels that expand only when needed.

The attached video walks through the launcher’s main features:

> - Expandable weather panel with hourly conditions and a rain timeline

> - Upcoming calendar events and alarm information

> - Expandable battery and system-status panel

> - Todo integration and synchronization with my desktop

> - Favorites dock, searchable app drawer and command mode

> - Around 30 synchronized themes and matching wallpapers

> - Custom wallpaper cropper with a fit-and-blur mode

> - Smooth 120 Hz animations, currently optimized for my Pixel 9 Pro

> One of the more unusual integrations is herdr. nbOS can connect to a small read-only bridge on my desktop through Tailscale and display the current status of my AI coding agent session such as active, idle or waiting agent directly inside the expanded system panel. If needed, I can jump from there into Termux and connect to the desktop session.

nbOS is closely connected to nbshell, my custom Niri desktop environment. Both projects share themes, wallpapers and the same terminal-inspired design language.

I previously posted the desktop side of the project here:

nbshell on niri

The project is still a work in progress, but it has reached the point where I can use it as my everyday launcher. Some of its visual direction was inspired by Omarchy, combined with my own ideas around expandable information panels, desktop integration and keeping the wallpaper visible.

I’d be interested to hear what you think—especially about the balance between the terminal aesthetic and everyday usability.