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! 🦾

  • AmiEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Simple but does the job.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•2 years ago

    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 😁🤷‍♂️

  • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
    22•2 years ago

    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

    • danielfgomEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      That is a great app and does a perfect job of recreating Windows phone.

      Nice setup. Very informative.

      • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Ikr. The dev is really responsive and is open to suggestions. I love it.

        Thanks man. I miss WP 😭.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Nice kitty! Do you follow (All Orange cats have one brain cell)? Good luck with your Japanese class!

    • subspaceinterferentsEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Yeah, high-five for SquareHome launcher. I never used a Windows Phone, but SHL caught my eye and it’s amazing. Props for the cat photo on the home screen.

      • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Ah man you’re lucky you didn’t use a Windows Phone. You’d be crying yourself to sleep knowing Mobile OSes reached perfection and then it was cancelled 😭.

        SHL is extremely powerful and very intuitive. Especially as a WP user.

        Also, I waited till the live tile updated to Simba’s photo. No meow, No post 🤌🏼🙌🏼.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          I still have a Lumia 1520 and 1020 because I can’t get rid of them. For whatever reason, I never got on board with SHL though. I think I found it too long after I had accepted that Windows Phone was gone…

          • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
            2•2 years ago

            Ah man.

            You could maybe sell them online?

            Also,

            I think I found it too long after I had accepted that Windows Phone was gone…

            saddest sentence ever 😭

            • @[email protected]English
              2•2 years ago

              Sorry my wording was ambiguous. I meant I don’t want to get rid of them. I still have an old Palm Pre and Pixi around somewhere too. And an HP Touchpad and Zune…

              I’m not nostalgic for much, but I love my old underdog tech. Lol

              • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
                2•2 years ago

                Nice.

                Bruh listen, I’ve never felt physical pain when nostalgic about anything apart from the ending of Windows Phone. I get your sentiment 😂.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•2 years ago

    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.

  • DeadGeminiEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Damn some of you guys are creative! I’m fairly satisfied with my setup, but its pretty basic.

  • godlessEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    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.

      • godlessEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        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.

  • subspaceinterferentsEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      Samsung themes: Business black technology1

      by Shanghai Dingsheng Network Technology Co.,Ltd

      it free

  • Curious CanidEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    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.

    • subspaceinterferentsEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      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… .

      • Curious CanidEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 years ago

    The home screen I’ve had for a while!

    Nova Launcher Prime with Borealis icons on the S22 Ultra.

    Set this layout for the icons so I can easily reach each app while not looking at my phone based on my hand orientation.

    • ijeffMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      I think your icons are getting away!