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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! 🦾

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  • 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.

  • I've had this setup for probably close to three years now and I don't see it changing anytime soon. I have a very similar theme on my desktop with the background changing hue depending on different programs running. The launcher is Lawnchair with the Arcticons Dark theme from F-Droid.

  • 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.

    • I really like that eWeather radar widget. I was shocked to learn that it's just for the northeast USA. Cold comfort for those of us living in the Hotel California... .

      • I don't think that is an actual limitation. I live in the midwest and it works fine here. I have also used it while traveling in Texas and California without any problems.

        If it makes any difference, I do also have the eRadar app, but the widget you see is part of eWeather.

  • 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.

    • How do you get AI to make them?

      • I'm using bing.com/create (free access with an office 365 account) and then use prompts such as "create a simple black & white icon with broad lines for a mobile app depicting financial management".

        Modify the prompt a few times or run it a couple times in a row until I find something I like, maybe modify it a little in Photoshop, and done.

  • 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.

  • Nova launcher and Chroma live wallpaper, try to keep it clean. Background changes each time I go home.

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