Show off your Android: the Home Sweet Home(screen) Edition!
Show off your Android: the Home Sweet Home(screen) Edition!
Hey Android enthusiasts!
Calling all customization lovers! 📱🌟 Show off your amazing homescreen setups and join the fun! Whether it’s sleek and minimalistic or vibrant and expressive, we want to see it all!
Share a screenshot of your homescreen and let us know your device, favorite launcher, widgets, and must-have first page apps! Bonus upvotes for before/after examples!
Let’s exchange some creative inspiration! 🦾
I LOVED Windows Phone, and was DEVASTATED when it got discontinued. As a result, for the past 5 years, I've slowly trudged along, trying to reach a position where I can make my Android phone look and (kinda) function like my old Lumia 525.
After years of research, Square Home Launcher. The dev is awesome, and the one-time fee isn't that bad.
Here's how my screen looks:
https://pixelfed.social/p/ElPussyKangaroo/592883078695439839
Launcher is SquareHome Launcher, populated (mostly) by kustom widgets. Using PowerLine for a quick-glance battery strength reading (green line) at the top. The calendar at top scrolls (from calendar.google.com) and is part of a 6-sided shape with rotating faces — a SquareHome native widget. On that rotating widget cube I also have a Google Keep note for quick notes and info, a quick dialer, a favorite photo, and a list of recent alerts. The folders below, which are custom art, speak for themselves. The three-dot bubble opens up to Gmail, Google Tasks, Google Voice, Google Calendar, and a repeating alert app (Reminder Pro). The bar at bottom is another kustom widget, showing the status of the cell, wifi, and Bluetooth radios. Color bars indicate signal strength. • Also generally recommend the "Bottom Quick Settings" utility, and can't live without "Missed Notifications Reminder" utility. You should check them out.
Neo launcher + arctic icons dark
Material you based design, one of many in the AIO launcher Apps and actions can be launched via search, and there is support for DuckDuckGo bangs
Wallpapers change every day, picked up from the Internet.
All applications are placed in categories, the most popular above category for quick launch (updated automatically, depending on the launch count)
The most ugly - multi-colored icons. I have to use an icon pack close to the default android, otherwise, randomly installed applications without support of icon pack will stand out.
Not too cute, but quite humanly usable.
I've become pretty lazy, just Niagara
I built my own android version from LineageOs, just changed some colors and added one setting, but was so proud of myself that I named it HeimchenOs(after the crickets in my garden)
Icon pack: Nebula icons (purple icon, on the Play Store) Launcher: Samsung One UI Home, using Good Lock's Theme Park module to use Play Store icons.
There are also hidden stacked widgets, hiding battery stats, earbuds control and a music player widget. It's in the row above the dock but is hidden behind an empty KWGT widget.
I've basically had this same setup since I got my first Android phone (Motorola Droid X). I keep my most frequently used apps on the top row and then the bottom row is for the standard "utility" applications. Never really felt the need to deviate from this setup, despite using different launchers. I've used, in the past, GO Launcher (in the very early days of it's existence), Nova Prime, various versions of stock android. One UI is in the screenshot. I've gravitated away from getting to eccentric/complicated ever since getting out of college and have tried to go for just simple/easy to use.
TL;DR: I'm boring 😁🤷♂️
Nova launcher, KWGT for the widget, Lines free icon pack
Nothing crazy like others but here's mine with kwgt.
I usually use Monet icons, but I'm just testing Delta icons and liking them so far.
Google Pixel 7 Pro with GrapheneOS
NeoLauncher with NeoFeed on the left.
On the first page, Mull browser search, Geometric Weather (location edited out) and Metro (a fork of RetroMusic player removing some Google libs).
The second page is taken up entirely by Telegram FOSS (stock client with proprietary dependencies purged) and FairEmail widgets, but I'm not showing y'all my chats :P
I usually don't have any apps on my homescreen, except the dock, and I use it as a dashboard while launching apps from the drawer.
Apps in dock are Koler, QKSMS, Telegram FOSS and Gcam apk (don't remember from where).
The background is generated by TerraTime, which also provides the neat little clock in the upper right corner. The daylight and cloud cover are accurate to near real-time. eWeather provides the radar map and the hourly weather widgets. I can see most of what I want to know about the weather at a glance.
I've been using Nova as my launcher for a very long time. Half of the icons are folders containing related apps. The phone and text buttons on the bottom open nested folders containing one-button dial and text icons for my most frequent contacts. Almost every icon also has a secondary swipe-up function, which gives me direct access to everything I regularly use.from just one screen. I have another screen that shows my work and personal calendars side-by-side and that's all I need.
Niagara Launcher, fishicons icons
Nova launcher, custom made icons in purely B/W to match my background image. Some are entirely self made, some come from various online sources, some are AI generated and manually retouched.
Opening the folders on the home screen shows the app icons in color, otherwise transparent overlay would be a messy mix of lines.
(example with opened "security" folder)
Single screen homepage, no widgets. I hate animations and scrolling.
Wallpaper : part of the default ones on the Google pixel 7pro. The wallpaper is rotated daily which will change the device theme thanks to Material You
Launcher : Nova launcher
Widgets : Another Widget for the one at the top, the Google search bar at the bottom
Icon pack : Oreo Icon Pack mostly but the app does not exist anymore. The icons are still there since it's a Nova backup from at least 5 years ago
Each icon is a folder. I setup nova to open the first app of the folder with a swipe up on the icon and to open the folder when tapping on the icon
Also I have a swipe right gesture that opens Google News as a left pane
I'm still working on my background in kustom live wallpaper. I added a screen for easy use in the car. My app icons are Umbra by Vertumus.
Animated in KLWP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10VIyDcVwaOH6SUuY7LK-iJzSNfG9mIOT/view?usp=drive_link
Screenshots
Using KWGT Pro (paid) with Koda for KWGT slightly modified.
Wallpaper is from iOS 17 carplay. I like using this app for browsing for good stock wallpapers.
Icon pack is Flora (paid) very nice material design icon pack that's not too noticeable if some are not themed.
This is Nova launcher latest beta.!
Pixel 7 with a barely customized Nova Launcher, because I'm basic but I need rounded square icons.
The background looks iffy in the shot, but it's a live wallpaper from Shader Editor running Machine DNA's GLSL shader with minimal tweaks needed to make it fit on the phone.
That weird twitter icon is a Firefox PWA running twitter.com with various userscripts installed, to remove antifeatures and bad logos.Niagra launcher <3
Mines pretty basic, I've been using this setup for years.
Simple nova launcher setup with all my most used apps within thumbs reach.
Microsoft Launcher, Clock Widget self made with KWGT
Nova launcher and Chroma live wallpaper, try to keep it clean. Background changes each time I go home.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/swU3ADcgQD3Teg9L6
default launcer samsung (galaxy a32)and a animated wallpaper from a theme (will reply with theme name and where i got it from)
Wallpaper by me (Midjourney), icons are Nova dark, and the launcher is smart launcher 6. There's a weather widget by shadow weather that you can barely see.
S22+ Nova Launcher KWGT + Nothing for KWGT
OLauncher. Barebones and minimalist.
Seeing all of these amazing-looking home screens finally got me to switch from pixel launcher, I hated that I can't remove the Google app search widget and I must say as simple as fuck this new home screen is it is starting to grow on me I love how simple it is, Niagara launcher
Fold 3 with Niagara Launcher. Wallpaper Engine for the background.
KISS Launcher with Gadgetbridge, two Weawow widgets stacked, and Mincal Widget
Pear Launcher (dock currently has two pages, I may go to a Fediverse third page) with Whicons and a live wallpaper of two of the moons of Jupiter, which is also my lock screen:
So the unlocking is pretty seamless.
Lawnchair, Digical, Aquamail, Doodle: Live Wallpaper
Nothing crazy but, I think Sesame + Today Weather widgets look really great and are very practical
Lawnchair on GrapheneOS. Nothing particular but very usable and rather pretty thanks to material you
Just simple. Stock LineageOS Launcher. There's a second page with more apps I can easily reach with my right thumb. I'm a one-hand user period. That includes typing too
I've had Nova Launcher for a long time now, but I've recently grown bored of it and desired a change. I am giving KISS Launcher a shot after hearing good things about it here on Lemmy. This is my current setup.
Going to possibly be moving around launchers though. Main thing I need is a search bar
Icons: Net Icon Pack
Widget: KWGT I created myself
Niagara Launcher and Appy Weather widget. Nothing fancy.
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My homescreen is pretty basic, most important apps are on the start page, other stuff and games on the second page.
The wallpaper is animated and shows the current weather at my position. I uploaded a few seconds of the current animation to YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/W1_zyn-Pvvk
The app providing these wallpapers is called Breezy Weather and can be found on F-Droid (https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.breezyweather) or GitHub (https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather)
A very utility-focused home screen for me. I love looking at minimalist home screens, but I always seem to come back to this.
Poco X3 Pro, Niagara Launcher, wallpaper is rotated by Muzei and Vitrina from a collection of Google Wallpapers
Niagara button opens up X-plore, pull up opens up Daijishou.
Set up I've had for a couple of years.
Background is taken from a racing game called Forza Horizon 3
i love it simple and monochrome
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it's on the simpler side
the launcher is smart launcher 6 with Pix material you icons. The Search widget app is Search Widget(Material You). The clock comes from the Pix Material You icon pack.Sorry, too many personal information in there Imagine nova launcher with very small icons and widgets like agenda , weather and time widgets overlap
I typically only use green or turquoise wallpapers as all other colors get butchered by material you.
Nothing too crazy.
OS: LineageOS 19
Launcher: Lawnchair Debug build
Icons: Mix of Lawnicons and m3 icons
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Nova launcher. Zoom in, some of the stars are apps. Lots of swipe and double tap functions too
Launcher is Lawnchair (12.1.0 Alpha 4)
Icons are the default system icons
How would you get awat with an nsfw wallpaper BTW? Irl.
I recently moved from a bog standard Nova launcher setup to something much more pretty!
Launcher is Niagara Pro, wallpaper is Wallpaper Engine!
Simple but does the job.
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/522nCF4xyTBtWaGZ7
yes default laucher with theme
Square Home
