Heyyy guys I want to recommend a new app from this unknown indie dev, it's called Nova Launcher and even though it doesn't have a lot of customizations and optimizations like Go Launcher I really like it so you might want to try it out!

No problem!

So from the beginning:

1. Download all the required applications

• PipDroid

• Nova Launcher: [link]

• UCCW: [link]

1. Launch Nova Launcher go to Desktop and set the Desktop Grid to 7x5 and allow Enable Widget Overlap, as well as disabling the Dock and Notification Tray.

2. Launch PipDroid and choose the color to install. Exit the app.

3. Press and hold on your home screen and select Widgets.

4. Add any size UCCW widget.

5. From the UCCW menu select PipDroid [Color].

6. Resize the UCCW widget to fit at the bottom of your screen.

7. Presto!

If you have any questions just reply to this or message me!

Get nova launcher. From there you can long press the icons and click edit. You can change the icon. For this I am guessing he's using Mini icon pack!!

Nova launcher

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Icon pack [link]

Edit: no idea what clock OP's using. I would recommend Timely but I'm just a guy on the Internet

Nova launcher let's you completely personalize your app display, and stuff it takes a bit to learn but you can resize icons and set a flexible grid so you can overlay icons and widgets if you'd like it also has handy dandy shortcuts you can make swipe gestures for example I have my swipe up on my phone icon dial my mom directly since I work with her and often need to contact her you can also make that swipe action on any icon open another app great for having an app accessible on your desktop without having the icon there... Ya know if you wanna hide something....

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1. Download all the required applications

• PipDroid

• Nova Launcher: [link]

• UCCW: [link]

1. Launch Nova Launcher and set the Desktop Grid to 7x5, as well as disabling the Dock and Notification Tray.

2. Launch PipDroid and choose the color to install.

3. Press and hold on your home screen and select Widgets.

4. Add any size UCCW widget.

5. From the UCCW menu select PipDroid Color.

6. Resize the UCCW widget to fit at the bottom of your screen.

7. Presto!

Get a custom launcher, Nova the free version works just as well (albeit less customization).

If you don't want to get used to a whole other experience, or just want to stay on stock Android and change one icon, Awesome icons is your friend.

With a launcher like Nova Launcher, there is an option under the Desktop category, under advance, to lock the screen which prevents any movement/deletion of apps.

You could also set to lock the desktop with a gesture, such as a clockwise rotating two fingers to toggle it on and off.

Nova Launcher is easily one of the best apps for Android, it allows for a wealth of customization to your launcher and can make your phone feel like a new device.

While the Prime version isn't necessary, it does open a lot more options and you might as well get it while it on offer at $0.99 (£0.50)

I'd actually recommend you get Nova Launcher, it allows you to rename apps, but you can also change the icon, install icon packs, change the layout of your home screen including how many rows and columns of apps you have. You can eventually do stuff like this where each of those icons are actually folders. Mine is a little cluttered because I like it like this, but you can do pretty much anything you want.

Plus Nova is quicker than the default touchwiz on Samsung phones.

EDIT: Added a link to the launcher.

I think that's just the launcher you're using, it'll probably disappear if you install something else. Nova launcher is a good one.

Nova Launcher.

Aside from being lightweight and feature rich, it is well supported by the developer and a crowd favorite for many years.

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Kleine Empfehlung von einem Android Fanboy: Probier mal die App Nova Launcher aus. Sie ersetzt den Standard Launcher(Homescreen und Appübersicht), ist dabei akkusparender, läuft flüssiger und du kannst deinen Homescreen bei weitem mehr anpassen als mit dem Samsung Themes "Müll". :D

So kannst du dir beispielsweise Icon Packs runterladen mit denen du jedes Icon individuell anpassen kannst. Außerdem gibt es noch unzählige weitere Anpassungsmöglichkeiten (Gestensteuerung, alternative Animationen, Entfernen der Untertitel bei den Apps usw.), die sonst mit dem Standard TouchWiz Launcher nicht möglich wären. Schaus dir an, ich finde da fängt der Spaß mit Android erst an.

Edit: Das Video ist mal wieder ein Beweis dafür, dass ein Großteil der Dislikes vollkommen unbegründet ist und einfach nur gedisliket wird, weil man Sep nicht mag. Also Sep, nimm dir die Dislikes nicht zu Herzen, das Video ist vor allem qualitativ eines der besten Videos bei PietSmiet.

An android for really tech unfriendly people is the best by a long shot. If it's set up by someone who knows what they're doing and knows the person.

You can use launchers like these to really simplify things for them. Make iPhones and windows phones look like spaceships in comparison.

Ideally you use a highly customisable launcher like Nova Launcher, hide everything they won't use and show everything they will use. You can customize so much. So say they only ever call the same 3 people. Instead of the dialler or contacts. Set 3 icons on the homepage that instantly call these 3 people and set the icons with the persons face. Stuff like that. Android tablets can be very cheap aswell because honestly what's the point on spending big bucks on a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab or whatever.

There is a free and paid version. You need a Launcher like Nova Launcher to install it. It replaces your app icons and has wallpapers that you can apply. The full versions have an animated live wallpaper.

I've got nothing going on today besides a casual day at work. If you aren't opposed to using Nova I can guide you how to build this on your own. Not looking for cash

The default launcher doesn't support that. You can use Nova Launcher with TeslaUnread to get what you want.

Almost all of them do, but I recommend Nova Launcher. Also, it starts out pretty clean and simple like stock android so that's also easy for them to figure out.

Edit: links

Thanks for the plug! You can also use a launcher such as Nova Launcher. I'll be updating that album with Fjorm's new art after tonight's app update.

My S6 is just a dream, never had a better phone. Got it rooted, added a custom home screen framework ("Nova", learn it, love it, use it), and a Otterbox Defender shell, which is slimmer and nicer than ever.

You need a custom launcher to do that (as well as a lot of other things, like changing the grid layout of your home screen).

I use Nova Launcher.

Oh I see.

I'm using Nova Launcher: [link]

KWGT: [link]

I'm not that great at explaining how to set things up. But there are subreddit for kwgt and Nova launcher.

Nova Launcher

Nova Launcher Prime

Prime is worth every penny.

If I'm not mistaken, most of the standalone Icon Packs that're on google play are for alternate launchers such as Nova, which is an entire different level of customization. It's been fairly popular with Samsung users because very few people liked touchwiz, which is/was Samsungs default launcher.

you can use an alternate launcher, I've been using Nova Launcher [link] since lolipop I also have developer options enabled to make animations run faster,animation scale 0.5x (complete the animation in half the time compared to default)

1. I'm not sure if something like Nova Launcher will allow for this on stock Android. As for myself when I'm looking at the quick toggles there is one there to lock into portrait/allow for auto-rotate. Silent mode is a point of contention in Lollipop, if you press your volume button you'll get options for None, Priority and All. None is essentially silent mode but it will mean your alarm won't notify you.

2. Nova Launcher (among others) have a lot of customisations for your home screen and also the app drawer, definitely check it out. Play Store Link!

3. Don't think so but if I'm in the pull down menu looking at notifications then that's what I'm focused on, personally never considered what the other part of the screen looks like when I'm dealing with the notification shade.

4. Make sure in the Google Play store settings you've selected auto update by WiFi only (though I'm sure you already have). Personally I've never had that same issue you did. I too have hit update on an app only to see it is a large update and have hit stop. From my experience what happened to you is not normal.

5. I don't use DoublTwist personally so I can't help with those points I'm afraid, though I'm pretty sure DoubleTwist have a desktop client, perhaps that would help?

I can say that Google Play Music both on the web and on the device I've had an easy time making playlists there.

1. Apart from pressing the menu button in the top right corner and hitting the forward button there, I'm afraid not. Gestures like swiping left and right for forward and back would be nice in Chrome imo.

Galaxy gets my vote, and if you do I recommend downloading the Nova Launcher for a different look/feel. It also lets you get cool icon packs which change how your app shortcuts look, I downloaded the long shadow icon pack.

That's the closest and slickest one I've found, but to be honest it'll never be the same. I found it more satisfying to embrace Material Design and I've gone for Nova Launcher and Pixxo icon pack

That's a built-in feature of the Google Now Launcher. Unfortunately, the Google Now Launcher has very few customization options, so your only option to get the search bar removed is to use a third party launcher app. Most third party launchers allow addition/removal of the persistent search bar (which is what all launchers call the search bar you're referring to). Personally, I can't recommend Nova Launcher enough, but it does come at the cost that the left-most screen being a Google Now shortcut is lost. You could still swipe up from the Home button on the navication bar to reach it while using any other launcher, though.

Check out Nova Launcher if you haven't, it's the best launcher out there. Also look out for their sale, where they offer their paid license at a a heavy discount, I got mine for only ₹10.

Nova is a free Launcher btw.

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You will need a custom launcher of some sort. I highly recommend Nova Launcher.

Once you get Nova installed you will need to hold the home screen > Settings > Look & Feel > Icon Theme > select the icon pack you need

Start with Nova Launcher which is one of the more popular ones. [link]

You can then try an icon pack to change how your icons look [link]

Years ago I tested about a dozen launchers, and chose Nova Launcher. (And yes, I chose it by my own, even before I started reading reddit.) The main features were the grid customization, the folder support in the drawer, showing folders in the homescreen (with contents synced with drawer folders), and locking the homescreen to prevent accidental changes.

But if you are bored with it and wan to try something different, try Lightning Launcher. It is very small, but at the same time extremely customizable and has an interesting take to the homescreen design. A few years ago, it had a free version, I don't know if it still has one. (Technical side: under-the-hood it seems to use a WebView as the homescreen.)

Nova laucher : [link] Flatty Icon Pack : [link] However the Icon pack is old and was last updated in 2015, but it can automaticly crop Icons into hexagons.

Yeah, Nova launcher is awesome. It's also in the summer sale at the moment, so if you want the extra prime features it's really cheap just now.

Free version: [link]

Prime version: [link]

Launchers are really simple. The one I use and recommend is Nova Launcher.

Launchers aren't anything to worry about as far as security and performance goes. One of the great things about Android is that if you don't like how your home screen looks, you can change it. You can change how things look and function on the home screen really easily.

I suggest playing around with a launcher and seeing how you like it.

What you need is a new home app, called a launcher in the play store. Most of them are free apps, but you'll have to pay to get the premium features etc.

I would highly recommend Nova launcher, plenty of customization options for you! [link]

There are others that are good too... I've heard good things about apex launcher...adw...action launcher... Just search for launchers on play store and make sure they are compatible with nougat

Try Nova Launcher - the access permissions are much more reasonable. I can count on one hand the number of apps that have impressed me enough to actually pay for the premium version, and Nova Launcher Prime is one of them.

For the boost thing, I'm assuming this is in the notification shade? (The pull down where you see all your notifications.) You should be able to long-press it and see what app it is. Then you can go to Settings > Apps, find that app, and either uninstall or disable it. (sometimes there are apps the manufacturer doesn't let you uninstall but there is usually a disable option which turns that app off.)

Regarding the octopus: based on some light googling, it looks like an annoying non-feature that Alcatel added to Joy Launcher, which is default launcher/home screen. Doesn't seem like anyone's figured out how to get rid of it, so your best option is to install another launcher, basically bypassing Joy Launcher entirely. The most commonly recommended one is Nova Launcher; it can usually import your home screen layout from your previous launcher and is pretty simple to use.

Gosh no. Use nova launcher, then take the page indicator and the app labels off. You have nothing to lose, it's free and it takes 3 minutes. My own nail and gear screen (+many others). Sorry for solving problems :)

Sure. I'm just using Nova Launcher (Prime) and Flight icons. The wallpaper comes with Flight icons too.

Yeah, you can't. This was why the very first thing I did was go with other suggestions in this sub of replacing FoxHole (your new launcher) with Nova. It has the added advantage of getting rid of Zen, the "news" feed thingy.

I didn't found anything from settings, but with Nova Laucher you can do that. If you download Nova, go to Nova Settings -> App & widget drawers -> Background.

For your first question, replacing your launcher with Nova and adding the Tesla plug in will do the trick.

You could try Wanam Xposed.

Have you also tried using a different launcher such Nova or Themer?

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Have you tried Nova Launcher ? You change change icon size easily and a bunch of other stuff. I think it's the most popular launcher out there.

Uhh, a cyanogenmod isn't a launcher, it's a firmware(or some equivalent word I can't remember)

Just go to the play store and look for nova launcher here then install it and use it as your default home app :)

Are you using a Oneplus One btw?

Na chłopski rozum interf.sys powinien odpowiadać za jakieś elementy interface'u, ale Internet jakoś tak niejasno opisuje co i jak.

Wiesz co? Weź pan na chwilę zainstaluj innego launchera, np

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Przestaw się na niego, popracuj na nim i obadaj czy ci błąd znowu wyskoczy.

If you're on Android, some devices can change it by default, or you could use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. If you're on iOS, I'm not sure if there is a way to change icons.

You can't remove them. However you can use a third party launcher, such as Nova launcher or Lawnchair launcher .

Have you tried Nova Launcher? Or perhaps even the Google Now launcher? Personally I find Nova is the best option available, giving you plenty of control and customization options.

I use a launcher called Nova (The payed version) and an icon pack called Retrorika. That combined with hours of trial and error of what looks good.

You can download a different launcher. I personally use Nova Launcher, the appearance can remain pretty much identical to the Google launcher, but it brings a hell of a lot more customization, including removing the search bar.

> >>>No prob, get Nova launcher

>>> No prob, get Nova launcher

> >No prob, get Nova launcher

> No prob, get Nova launcher

No Prob, get Nova launcher

• Nova Launcher for customizing your homescreen. Also includes Prime version for $5 to unlock extra features.
• For icon packs, I choose something like Minty Icons Free.

It's not something you can do out of the box, but Nova Launcher combined with TeslaUnread will give you that functionality.

Yep you need a launcher. I recommend Nova Launcher.

if you want one from a different card, paste the card link from DBZ Space and I will make you one as soon as I can =)

If you don´t know how to change the display of your icons: Install Nova Launcher -> [link]

Here are the developer's instructions if you need them:

1. Download all the required applications

• PipDroid

• Nova Launcher: [link]

• UCCW: [link]

1. Launch Nova Launcher and set the Desktop Grid to 7x5, as well as disabling the Dock and Notification Tray.

2. Launch PipDroid and choose the color to install.

3. Press and hold on your home screen and select Widgets.

4. Add any size UCCW widget.

5. From the UCCW menu select PipDroid Color.

6. Resize the UCCW widget to fit at the bottom of your screen.

7. Presto!

They used the Nova Launcher and an icon pack. In this case the Corvy Icon Pack

Nova launcher blends good performance with lots of customisation.

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You can use the pixel launcher if you want, though it's a little more work (still doesn't need root though)

[link]

I use the custom launcher Nova Launcher with the retro icon pack. It allows for great customization. This is on an Android device as well.

Nova Launcher

Retro Icon Pack

Since you mentioned you use both on the daily, I thought I'd suggest something.

Nova Launcher (and others I'm sure) have a great app search functionality. I use it all the time. Here's a screenshot.

The free version of Nova Launcher has it too.

Nova Launcher is a very customizable Android launcher. It can completely change the look and feel of your Android device. It's default settings make your Android phone resemble a stock Android device. Bear in mind this does not change the look and feel of the system that is the status bar icons, the settings app and the system apps such as the browser. You can also change the look of the icons using various icon packs that are available on the Play Store.

• Install Nova Launcher [link]
• Launch Nova Launcher
• Hold your finger on a blank space on the homscreen
• Click 'Widgets'
• Select 'Activities'
• Drag and drop activities on the homescreen
• Scroll down to "System UI"
• Select "Demo mode"
• Go back to novalauncher home screen
• Select the new icon
• Select "Status bar"
• Scroll down to the bottom
• Click "time"
• Select 'Show hours, minutes and seconds'.

There might be an easier way to do it, but this is how I got the seconds back.

Absolutely Nova Launcher will let you customize the look of your phone. Throw in an icon pack to your liking and you'll be satisfied. The more you tweak it and mess with the app, the more you'll learn. Another thing is Macrodroid which lets you set up tasks automatically. For example lets say you want to turn off your WiFi automatically when leaving the house. Macrodroid will do it automatically

Nova Launcher + Tesla Unread for Nova Launhcer

Okay, so you know on your homescreen there's pages and stuff? The launcher is what manages that. Your phone comes with one but you can change to another.

It's easier to understand by trying others. Try downloading Nova Launcher (you can always switch back). I use that one because it's very customizable. For example I have pages on my dock.

Edit: I'm having trouble explaining so please ask followup questions and I can probably help more.

I am not a fan of EMUI, so I downloaded Nova launcher along with the Pixel Icon Package to emulate the look of the 6p/pixel.

If you go to the download page of the pixel icon package, the developer provides a tutorial on how to modify the app/widget drawer and dock to accomplish the pixel look.

Nova launcher with companion will let you have the google now on your left. then you can just change your grid space to have as many icons as you like. I think it may be a paid feature though.

Nova: [link]

Nova companion: [link]

My solution was: Nova Launcher and Antimo

You'll need a third party launcher as that is just what the stock pixel launcher looks like now. I recommend Nova launcher. I've been using it for years. [link]

I'd also pick gestures as being one of the best features. For instance, I have my GPS apps in a single "bubble". You can touch it and it expands, showing all 5 apps. However, I have it set to run Waze if there's a finger slide.

You can also configure tricks like turning on the LED if you slide two fingers down, can have more icons at a bottom dock, etc. Little tweaks in functionality here and there, plus it is stable and fast (especially if you disable animations).

Nova Launcher is actually one of the very few apps I bought, along with Tasker.

I have to see what Samsung added in the Note 7, but unless it's very functional, I'll probably continue using Nova.

> >- Nova Launcher: Te permite cambiar el aspecto del celular y añadir muchas funciones... al principio me pareció difícil de usar o sin mayor utilidad pero cuando aprendes a usarlo.. es una maravilla wn... >

Loco, aproveché cuando el pro estaba en oferta como a $300 CLP. Mejor inversión.

> >- Un buen reemplazo para google maps... >- Una buena aplicación para GPS... una a la que le pueda confiar mi vida acampando por ahí...

Esta es mi favorita! (maps.me) .

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First, Goto Settings>Display>Home screen & select another launcher, be it LG or 3rd party just as long as it's not that one. (if you already have others installed? If not, pick one you like & do so first. Nova is great IMO)

Then, uninstall whichever circle style launcher that is..?

You'll likely see the apps name in the aforementioned menu I spoke of above.

For what it's worth, Samsung modifies Android so heavily it's probably more accurate to say the device's OS is Android-inspired. They offer Android in the same way Taco Bell offers Mexican food. Try a Pixel - the experience is completely different (and 1000% better in my opinion).

Or you could just tweak things to the way you want it with something like Nova Launcher.

Nova launcher still has the app draw unlike the retarded lg default launcher

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You can also use seasame shortcuts with nova which allows you to search contacts, shortcuts within apps and do loads of stuff

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Yeah if you swipe down from the right of the status bar it will bring up settings, not notifications. Swipe down a but further to the left to bring down just notifications.

And no, you can't set your home page on the default Launcher. The only way to do it would be to download another Launcher like nova: link

You could use an alternative launcher (eX Nova Launcher) for custom homescreen gestures.

I, for example, have a double tap anywhere on the home screen to activate Google Search. You can do the same thing for Google Assistant.

I do not know if it's currently possible without any third party software.

Well I think the reason I'm able to change mine is due to the Nova Launcher, and all I have to do is long press an app on my screen and hit "Edit". I'm sure there are other ways though. As for iOS, I have no idea.

Ah, yep that's definitely TouchWiz at work - it's not stock Nougat behavior. Have you tried switching to a different homescreen app, like Nova Launcher? If you're still getting the overlays you can also install an icon pack, such as Moonshine.

You don't need to root your phone. You don't need to install anything harmful. Most people on this subreddit use Nova Launcher. Next you'll need an icon pack. A good icon pack and some widgets will really help you change the look and feel of your phone.

if you use a different launcher you can make the app drawer 100% transparent.. something like nova launcher will work.

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That depends on what you mean by remove. Touchwiz is very much baked into the factory image, so you can't really remove it from Samsung phones without flashing a custom ROM. You are able to install a different launcher and disable a lot of Samsung bloatware which makes touchwiz a lot easier to deal with even without root. I recommend installing Nova launcher ([link]) and Package Disabler Pro (note that the play store version was neutered due to the Note 7 debacle but working versions are available via side load)

Also, you can get Nova Launcher which would offer the most custom experience and keeping it close to stock. You can then download the Google Now Companion app from Nova's website (if I'm not mistaken) and add that swipe right for the Google now page

Edit:

here is the Nova Launcher app

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Here is the link to the companion app

[link]

Edit 2: This is what I use and it's just awesome. I love OnePlus devices and their OOS launcher but I wanted the Google Now page and wanted the integrated Google search bar. This is the best solution in my opinion ����

You can use a new launcher app with more/different customization options than the default one.

Nova Launcher is one such option.

It has to be supported by the Launcher app that is used by your homescreen. The default Google Now launcher does not support icon changing.

Nova Launcher is a pretty popular (if not THE most popular?) choice for a Launcher replacement app.

• You can switch between Launcher apps by going to Settings -> Home

For Nova: (to change all icons to a theme)

• long press anywhere on home screen -> settings -> Look & feel -> icon theme

(To change just the icon of one app)

• If the app isn't on your homescreen put it on there from the app drawer -> long press the app icon -> edit -> Then touch the icon in the pop-up window

Nova supports importing layouts from other Launchers aswell, so it should be able to copy over your old setup from the Google Now launcher! Pretty awesome, one of the few apps I shelled out the money and bought full price

edit:

Also just so you know, there are tons of free icon themes on the Play Store. Not sure what pack the unicorn one is from in the screenshot from /u/wildlikechildren365 though

This was made using nova launcher, and this is the wallpaper used.

Welcome to the world of Android! It might seem daunting at first, but it's really not. The great thing about Android is the unlimited possibilites thanks to third party apps. The first thing you should know about are launchers. Launchers are basically the framework for the UI for the phone. So different launchers can affect how many apps are in your dock, the spacing of your apps on your screen, etc. The most popular launcher is nova launcher. I use this one too, and I like it the best. But feel free to try out some different ones to see what you like.

You can also get some different icon packs too, to affect the look of your device. /r/androidthemes has a lot of great inspiration and resources for different icon packs, wallpapers, etc.

You can also get different apps for the messaging, camera, etc. A lot of people use hangouts for SMS messaging but another popular one is Textra. It is really clean, highly customizable, and has a great UI.

I don't really play too much games, so I couldn't really help you out there, but the sub /r/androidgaming is awesome and you can find a shitload of resources there for that. Also, the sub /r/androidapps is great for finding new apps. I found most of what I use there. And of course /r/android is awesome too.

Or install Nova and customize things as you wish. You can set different icon packs, control whether or not you have the bottom swipe for apps (which is awesome), and a bunch of other features.

I don't have a Samsung phone so I'm not sure, but you might have to use a third party launcher. I recommend Nova for customization or Evie for fluidity and simplicity.

Nova Launcher!

Once you install it, open its settings > Desktop > Desktop grid > Subgrid Positioning.

Can also do silly stuff like this pyramid of apps because why not.

This is a feature of the Google Now launcher. It was implemented for Marshmallow. You can use an alternative launcher to get rid of it. My personal favorite is Nova Launcher.

Widgets: All custom made w/ Zooper

Wallpaper

Launcher: Nova

Any questions feel free to ask! (I'm attempting to find a way to bundle all the widgets for anyone looking to download in the near future)

First thing that you need to do is install a launcher. Check out Nova Launcher, it's one of the best launchers and the free version has everything that you need. Your launcher is the app that your phone opens when you hit the home button (it's your homescreen).

Once you install the launcher, open up Min and go to the Apply section in the drawer. From there click on Nova Launcher and you should be set.

Check out /r/androidthemes to learn more!

you can't wrap homepage with default launcher, but you can use custom launcher for this, nova launcher for example

it shouldn't be rooted by default, if it is, you should be worried, there's something shitty going on, also rooted phones ask for permission every time some app wants to use superuser rights, what "rights" are you talking about? if you're talking about ability to remove bloatware it's normal when buying phone off contract:)

For removing apps you need root. Samsung phones have relatively more bloatware. Only way is to disable them in Settings>Apps.

And about the badge thing, you can install third party launchers like Nova Launcher or Action Launcher. I use Nova Launcher, it's great. It is paid though. It correctly shows badges for me, But I have disabled the badges because I don't like it. Also you can hide the apps you don't want in the app drawer through these launchers.

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According to this, you need to enable Google Search otherwise Trebuchet will keep crashing.

If Google Search is already enabled, then consider switching to Nova Launcher.

I'm using Nova Launcher which is seriously the best launcher available on Android. And the icon pack is Retrorika.

It's Android [ Note 4 ] using NovaLauncher with Vopor icon pack.

I like to have my home screens/efficient clean and Nova does it well :3

Some people use third-party launchers like Nova that support icon packs.

If you use a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod (or any ROM with Xposed + Unicon installed) you can install icon packs which replace icons system-wide.

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• Nova Launcher - My favorite launcher.

• Textra SMS - My favorite SMS app.

• Inbox by Gmail - My inbox would look like a mess without this. It automatically categorizes all of my emails. Love it.

• Relay for reddit - My favorite Reddit client.

• Flynx - Similar to Link Bubble, but I think this one's better.

• Swiftkey / SuperSwiftkey (modded Swiftkey with lots of themes) - I personally use SuperSwiftkey because of all the sexy themes.

• QuickPic - My favorite gallery app.

• MiXplorer - Converted from ES File Explorer to MiXplorer, and I'm really happy with it.

• GSAM Battery Monitor - My go-to battery monitor.

• Lux Lite - Because stock Android automatic brightness sucks. Comes with CF.lumen integration, but you'll have to be rooted to use it.

• JEFIT Workout Tracker - I've been using this for years and I really like it. UI is a bit complex, but I've learned to love it.

• Evernote - Again an app I've been using for years. I mainly use it for my shopping lists and for quickly jotting something down.

• Dropbox - I mainly use it for its automatic camera upload function. Having all my photos automatically backed up to the cloud is reassuring in case my phone gets lost, stolen ...

• CamScanner - I use this to scan and categorize important receipts and documents.

• Tinfoil for Facebook - It's basically a wrapper for the mobile Facebook website. I use this because the official Facebook app is a real battery and memory hog.

Rooted

• Xposed - Speaks for itself.

• Titanium Backup - To remove bloatware.

• AdAway - One of (if not) the best adblockers.

• CF.lumen - Screen filter that makes using the phone especially at night much easier on the eyes. It's like f.lux for Android.

As much it comes off as people's unwillingness to pay more than $3 for an app, I think the real story here is mega-companies eating up small companies and giving away credible products as a loss-leader for market share. There's a strong gravitational force around $0 when Google/Facebook/Microsoft can eat the cost of their free alternatives essentially forever.

Nova Launcher is fantastic, but how high could they realistically raise their prices before people jump to the free Google Now Launcher? Same with Swype vs. Microsoft's Swiftkey or Google's own credible keyboard. Any SMS app has to compete with Facebook's Messenger & Whatsapp or Google Hangouts. Evernote has to compete with Google Keep. Even Pocket Casts will soon have to start competing with a google app.

In fact, Google has usable or class-leading free alternatives to Maps, Navigation, Office apps, Calendar, Cloud Storage, Payment, Weather, Voice search, text-to-speech and plenty more. They have a free freaking fitness tracker I never even heard of. Those are entire categories of software where you'd have to be mind-blowingly amazing to charge even $3 and that's just until a tech giant either catches up to you or just buys you outright.

tl;dr:

Nova Launcher with their backup file

Pixel Icon Pack

Google Wallpapers

Pixbar (stock Android phones only)

The launcher creates the home screen and apps list. I personally have Nova Launcher installed.

Sorry guys, kinda busy atm. I'll post details on the setup later when I get back.

EDIT: I'm back~

• Wallpaper - Matt Ferguson LotR Trilogy Set
• Launcher - Nova Launcher with Nova Launcher Prime. 5x6 Grid, Disabled Dock, Swipe up to open app drawer, hide status bar, icon size 85%.
• Custom Widgets - KWGT with KWGT Pro. With KWGT you can download a whole collection of custom widgets on the Playstore and customize them even further.
• Date and Clock - Preset from Unity KWGT. I just added "The Fourth Age" in the widget.
  
• Icons - Flight Lite

• Launcher: Nova Launcher + Nova Launcher Prime

• Icon Pack: Clix

• Grid: 4x5

• Icon Size: 150%

• Label text: Medium, three settings from the largest option

• Folders: No background, Line

• Dock Background: #202020 at 15% transparency, with Height Padding on high

• Swipe for app drawer enabled with no app drawer icon

I'm using this setup because I switch between my iPhone, iPad and Android all the time (I use Android mainly for OTG and easy sharing of files) and I want everything to look the same across all of them. Please no hate!

EDIT: Background is here.

EDIT 2: Refined! And with badge icons! Here's the result.

• Notification app: TeslaUnread

• Size: Large

• Select 'Classic' theme, and then change corner radius to 8. Done!

EDIT 3: If you're going to use a background that isn't dark, switch the Dock transparency to 50% for it to look better. Example.

• Nova Luncher (Prime) - I lasted a few hours without it when I got my new phone. The stock launcher just feel handicapped compared to all the features of Nova.
• Minuum - A keyboard that looks good, have adaptive colors, lots of customizations and fits well for my use.
• Relay for Reddit - My favorite way of reading Reddit.
• Pushbullet - Universal Copy/Paste is handy as well as quickly sending links/files between phone and computer.
• Poweramp - A bit cluttered and not so pretty music player, but makes up for it with all the features. It can be skinned for better looks: Poweramp skin Material
• Is It August? - It's important to know if it's August or not.
• SoundHUD - Gets the volume bar out of the way as well as giving much more control over the volume keys.
• Moon+ Reader - E-book reader. Just like Poweramp, the settings are a mess, but also full of options. It's a great reader once you're done with the settings.
• S Converter - A pretty and functional unit converter. It's necessary to understand all the weird units of you Americans here.

To expand upon /u/turnbelt's really useful tutorial (which helped me set things up this afternoon):

1. Download and install Nova Launcher: [link]
2. Download and install UCCW: [link]
3. Download and install PipDroid: [link]
4. Run the PipDroid app. Choose PORTRAIT. Choose WHITE (unless you've bought the paid version of PipDroid, in which case choose whatever colour you'd like). On the next screen tap INSTALL.
5. Return to the first screen of the PipDroid app. Tap OTHER. Tap LOGOS. Tap WHITE*. Tap INSTALL.
6. Return to the first screen of the PipDroid app. Tap OTHER. Tap WALLPAPERS. Tap WHITE*. Tap INSTALL**.
7. Exit PipDroid.
8. Open the Nova Launcher config app. Tap DESKTOP. Tap DESKTOP GRID. Set it to 7 (tall) by 5 (wide). Tap DONE. Tap ADVANCED. Enable WIDGET OVERLAP and OVERLAP WHEN PLACING.
9. Tap BACK. Tap DOCK. Disable the dock.
10. Tap BACK. Tap LOOK AND FEEL. Disable the notification bar (you can still access it by swiping down from the top of your home screen).
11. Return to your home screen. Delete any existing icons. Press and hold on the home screen to add new widgets. Add an UCCW widget of any size (it can be resized afterwards). Choose the main PipDroid widget. Add a second UCCW widget. Add the Vault Boy icon of your choice.
12. Resize the PipDroid widget to fill the screen. Resize the icon likewise (the icon image will remain in the top-right). Press and hold on the icon image and SEND TO BACK.
13. Return to the Nova Launcher app. Tap DESKTOP. Tap the LOCK DESKTOP option under the ADVANCED heading.
14. Open the UCCW app. Tap the menu button/icon. Tap LOCK WIDGETS.

You're done! All you need to do now is personalise! Open the UCCW app. Tap the main PipDroid widget. Tap OBJECTS to edit the text options on your widget (the menu options on the left and to the bottom of your Home screen). Tap HOTSPOTS to edit which apps those menu options launch when tapped. DONE! :)

*Or your preferred colour in the paid version, obviously.

**If you find that the wallpapers won't download automatically, which apparently happens on some handsets, download them from here (as linked by OP): [link]

EDIT: If you're feeling adventurous, this live wallpaper can be purchased for less than a quid and it looks FANTASTIC underneath the widgets: [link]

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If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

I used Nova Launcher set at 12x12 no dock. Then I used the icon pack candy cons, for the dots. I also used the clock widget in candy cons for the eyes. Then I opened up this image, and tried to replicate it accurately in a minimal way.

Hope you guys like it, make sure to watch the GIF to see how artistic this piece is.

edit: thanks for gold kind stranger, it means so much to me and my family for finally having my artistic and creative work appreciated by such a friendly community. I would like to let you all know, that I dont do this for fame or money or power. I do this because it is my passion, my destiny is to recreate art on android home screens. Thank you and have a good day.

Because CM Launcher is terrible. Here's one of the most popular launchers out there, Nova and its requirements are much more adequate.

Also, it's unrelated, but their ads are one of the most terrible things that a human can ever witness: link[link], link

1. Launcher:

• Nova launcher (Free/ Paid) - Because default launchers lack features, customisations.

2. File transfer:

• EasyJoin - (Free & separate paid version) - My go to file transfer & link sharing app. Focused on privacy and your data doesn't go through external servers, that's why It only works for devices that are connected on same WiFi network, WiFi hotspot and that's the reason it doesn't have remote sharing functionality of pushbullet & join. If you need remote link, and other remote features then pushbullet/Join is the app for you.

Probably the only free file transfer app that,

• doesn't have ads, doesn't ask unnecessary permissions, Can also share links & send messages to devices connected on same WiFi network, Has native apps for Android, Windows, Linux, MacOS and browser add-on for quick link sharing.

Sometimes I use Send anywhere & Airdroid. Both have ads and paid version can remove those ads.

3. Gallery app:

• Simple Gallery

It's Free, Open source, doesn't have ads, doesn't ask Internet permission. It has some good customisations for a free and open source app. Probably it's the perfect replacement of QuickPic.

I am personally using old version of quickpic and I removed internet access permission from it. I also keep simple gallery but I like animations of quickpic. Also it's little bit faster. Btw don't use new playstore version of quickpic. Cheetah mobile bought it and that company is not trustable.

4. Music Player:

• BlackPlayer Ex - (Free & paid version) - It has good amount of customisations, You can customise it's look.

• Retro Music Player - For it's look. It doesn't have that many features yet but It gets regular updates.

• Musicolet - (Free)

Free, No ads, Doesn't ask internet permission, decent customisation options.

You can also check GoneMad Music Player

5. Browser & Adblocking solutions:

• Samsung Browser with Adguard content blocker from playstore. To block browser ads.

If rooted: AdAway with custom filter lists. If rooted + xposed: AdAway (with custom filter lists) + MinMinGuard

If non-rooted: Adguard Premium (download it from their website)/ Blokada

I am using blokada. It's free, open source app. I don't know much about AdAway and Adguard. I just copied first 2 sentences from another Reddit post. May be someone can help with adblocking solutions for rooted devices.

6. YouTube app:

• YouTube vanced because OG YouTube is dead.

• NewPipe - Simple, open source

7. Downloaders:

• ADM Pro or IDM Plus - supports torrent

• Videoder - Supports downloading videos from many websites. Useful for YouTube videos downloading. You can buy Premium Extension from Playstore to remove ads. I am using old version that has less permissions. I think new versions have more permissions.

I also want to know alternative of Videoder that is free, can downlod youtube videos seamlessly, supports all resolutions and open source app or from XDA.

Apps that helps downloading:

• Search'em All

• Libre Torrent - Free, No ads

8. Notes:

• Omni Notes- Free, Open Source, available on Fdroid, It has decent features.

Note app without Internet permission:

• Notes - Free, No ads, supports text formatting.

9. Calendar:

• Free, Open Source, Doesn't ask internet permission - Simple Calendar & Etar

10. Basic Calculator:

• cCalc - Free, No ads, Doesn't ask Internet permission. More features compared to Google Calculator.

Calculators + Unit Convertor - All in One calculator (Free & IAP) - I am using old version of this app. New version has new features.

11. Transportation:

• MovIt - Try yourself to check if your city is supported. Useful when you are travelling.

12. Video Player:

• VLC - Chromecast support, free, open source.

I am using Joey for reddit. Free and doesn't have ads. Has good customisations.

13. Weather:

• Weather Timeline

14. PDF reader/Book reader

• Moon Reader Pro

• FB reader premium

15. File Manager:

• Solid File Explorer or Amaze file manager from F-droid.

16. Podcast Player:

There are many apps.

For basic users - Antennapod / Podbean (free version)

Advance users - Pocket cast, Podcast player from castbox.fm, Podcast Go etc.

Edit: Extended list for useful android apps. Check this.

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New Additions:

• Corrin M (New Year)

• Takumi (New Year)

• Camilla (New Year)

• Azura (New Year)

• Gunnthra

• Lucina (Spring)

• Chrom (Spring)

• Lyn (Bridal)

• Charlotte (Bridal)

• Ryoma

• Roy (Brave)

• Amelia

• Innes

• Elise

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

EDIT: Thanks for the Gold!!

Welcome to Android, brother! Here are some of the apps I use, and I'm sure others will chime in with their personal setups, too! The best thing about Android is the customization available to users. There are tons of options, so you can pick and choose what works best for you!

• Launcher: Nova Launcher

So on Android, you can install apps that determine how your entire home screen functions. These are called launchers, and far and away the best launcher has to be Nova. It performs great, has every customization option you'd ever want, and is updated regularly. Definitely the best purchase I've ever made on the play store.

[link]

• SMS/Texting: Textra

Can't beat it. By far the fastest and most reliable app for SMS as of now. Depending on how the new Google Messages update performs, I might switch to that. But for now, Textra is great.

[link]

• Reddit: Slide for Reddit

Great app for browsing Reddit, though on Android there are several that work great! I also recommend Boost, Sync, and Reddit Is Fun if Slide doesn't appeal to you.

[link]

• E-mail: Inbox

One of Google's greatest apps! Automatic categorizing of e-mails, snoozing, and reminders place Inbox above the stock Gmail app in my opinion.

[link]

• Theming/UI Customization: Andromeda+Substratum/Swift Dark

With the Android 8.0 beta (and 8.1 beta coming Monday) installing custom themes has been made possible without root! This means that you can alter the colors of basic UI elements without having to "mod" your device. Here's a tutorial if you're interested: [link]

Swift Dark is a particular substratum theme that looks great on the Essential!

Andromeda: [link]

Substratum: [link]

Swift Dark: [link]

• Google Opinion Rewards

And to pay for these apps? I just do surveys for Google through this app. It gives play store credit for each survey you do, and you can use that to buy apps, games, and movies on the play store!

[link]

Haha sorry that ended up being longer than I expected. Let me know if you have questions! And enjoy your Essential phone. :)

~~On mobile, so I can't link, but~~ I've gone ahead and attached links to each app, these are general recommendations:

• Nova Launcher (+Prime) - Changes launcher and allows vast customization

• Weather Timeline - Weather app with amazing looking widgets

• Sync/Relay/Slide/Boost for Reddit , whichever suits you best, I personally use Sync - Reddit clients

• Textra SMS - An amazing SMS client

• Phonograph for appearance/Poweramp for equalizer - Music players, I personally use Phonograph because it looks amazing and I can't tell the difference in audio between both apps anyway. If you're an audiophile, use Poweramp preferably with a material design skin

• Disconnect Pro if it's free/Adhell - Both supposedly block most ads system wide without root, Disconnect Pro is on the Galaxy App Store and costs a bit, but it was free recently, otherwise get Adhell from Play Store

• Flamingo for Twitter - Highly customizable twitter client

• If you use Facebook, the general consensus is to use a wrapper (wraps the web client) such as Friendly for Facebook, but I ended up sticking with the official app for speed and functionality (such as tagging users in comments)

• Pocket Casts/Podcast Addict - Podcast players, I've personally only used Pocket Casts and it's great, but it costs money, I've heard Podcast Addict is a free equivalent

• Solitaire Decked Out - Free, ad-free Solitaire app, it's cute and good looking with in-app purchases only for cosmetics, great if you like Solitaire

• Adblock Plus for Samsung Browser - An adblocker for the default Samsung browser

• Galaxy Button Lights 2 - Shortens the time those little lights on the recent and back buttons appear for, you can even completely turn them off

• Isotope - Pretty looking material design periodic table

• Google Keep - Note taking app that syncs with the web version online

• Google Photos - Sync and upload pictures to save forever, Google even automatically creates animations, albums, collages etc.

• Solid Explorer - File explorer

• Gboard - Keyboard made by Google, offers things like swiping to type, more customization than the default Samsung Keyboard, Google search and translate within the keyboard etc.

If you're on Nougat 7.0 (software version), a neat little trick you can do is double tap the recents button to switch back and forth between apps, I use it all the time.

That's what comes off the top of my head (+ looking a bit at my apps), I can update more once I get home if I remember, but your best bet is to search around this subreddit as well as r/android and r/androidapps for more apps, there are tonnes that people recommend. Sorry if some of these apps aren't completely suited for someone new to android, perhaps they'll help you in the future though.

Have fun :)

Even though I'm an Android person, I really enjoy the way iOS looks (especially iOS 11), so I decided to replicate iOS 11's Control Center as my home screen! Obviously some things aren't possible with KLWP such as brightness/volume sliders, and I'm not too experienced with Tasker yet so perhaps I could've added more avanced functions with it if I was, but for the time being I'm very happy with this setup. Thank you for checking it out!

resources

wallpaper // link

apps // nova launcher // klwp // tasker // whicons

font // san francisco

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New Additions:

• Fjorm

• Ike (new icon style)

• Hector (new icon style)

• Bridal Cordelia (new icon style)

• Ayra (new icon style)

• Celica (new icon style)

• Brave Lyn (new icon style)

• Genny (new icon style)

• Deirdre (new icon style)

• Spring Camilla (new icon style)

• Bridal Caeda (new icon style)

• Spring Xander (new icon style)

• The Reinhardt (new icon style)

• Smiling The Reinhardt (new icon style)

• Nowi (new icon style)

• Anna (new icon style)

• Sharena (new icon style)

• Alfonse (new icon style)

• Veronica (new icon style)

• Bruno (new icon style)

• Surtr

• Loki

• Laevatein

• Siegbert

• Shiro

• Rhajat

• Soleil

• Orb

• Background

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

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Full Album Imgur Zip Download (128 Images)

New Additions:

• Ike (Vanguard Legend)

• Marisa

• Lyon

• Eirika (Sacred Memories)

• L'Arachel

• Myrrh

• Lilina

• Delthea

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo).

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

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New Additions:

• Tailtiu

• Sigurd

• Deirdre

• Arvis

• Ayra

• Arden

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

Nova Launcher - helped me get a very minimalist configuration which I prefer

BixRemap - an app made by an /r/GalaxyS8 user I believe, for remapping the bixby button for whatever you want

AdHell - block ads and stop services. I was able to shut off much more than what you can disable under the phone's naitive settings, including services that /r/GalaxyS8 users have reported to be pushing spam notifications

Navbar Apps - configure your navbar at the bottom of the screen. I was particularly drawn to this app because I found the navbar would get rendered with a white background while it sat below my black keyboard, which was really gruesome to look at. I was able to set the background to always be black, which was all I wanted, but the app seems to be able to do a lot more.

Although it's not an app, I additionally use the PixelizeD theme the give me a dark color scheme for the pull-down notification menu (you will need to do a search for it). I broke down and made a Samsung account to be able to set a different theme, and I like it much better now.

• I highly recommend changing the animation speeds to higher speeds. Settings > About phone > Tap on Build number 7 times > Go back to settings > Developer options > Change the three animation options to 0.5x speed.
• Explore third-party launcher options such as Nova, Apex, Evie, or Google Now. It gives you a crapload of customization options (including changing icons with icon packs; a few of my favorites are CandyCons, Polycon, Min, and Simpax). More info in the edit below.
• There are a lot of good reddit apps. I recommend Sync and Relay, although you should try them all out to find what you like most.
• Get Google Rewards for free Google Play credit.
• Textra is the most popular texting app. I prefer it over the default Samsung messenger app.
• Pushbullet is very useful for sharing files and links from your computer to your phone and vice versa. It also allows you to send SMS from your computer. I hear Airdroid is pretty good too although I haven't tried it yet.
• Screenshotting in Samsung is pretty awesome, you can select a part of the screen, draw over it, and some other options
• Double tap the recents button to switch between the last app you had open.
• Hold the recents button to start split screen mode
• DO NOT GET cache/storage cleaning apps (e.g. CleanMaster). They are bloated and useless. Most of them are highly rated via fake reviews.
• DO NOT GET antivirus apps, they are completely unnecessary and not very useful in the case that you do get a virus. If you want to avoid getting a virus, only download apps from the play store and not third-party sources (although there are a few safe ones).
• Other favorite apps of mine: Phonograph (music player), Spotify, Pocket Plays (official Twitch app is also very good), Google Photos (highly recommended), Podcast Addict (one of many excellent podcast players. Pocket Casts is probably the best but is a paid app), Google Calendar, Google's Clock, Zedge (wallpapers+ringtones), Backdrops (wallpapers), Gboard or Chrooma (keyboards that are superior to the default Samsung one IMO), Inbox (Google's Gmail alternative, there's also a web version), SD Maid and Greenify (not as important for casual users).
• Here are some other useful threads: here, here, here, and here.

I might add more tips later on. I also want to add links to the apps I mentioned [edit: done].

Edit:

• In the quick settings buttons in the pullndown notifications, you can click on the names of the buttons for additional options. For example, clicking on "Flashlight" will let you adjust the flashlight brightness.
• The mobile Firefox browser lets you install extensions such as an adblocker (Ublock Origin is the superior one btw :D).
• When highlighting text, you can actually hold and drag.
• When you want to paste something, there's also a clipboard option that lets you select from your clipboard history.
• Amoled wallpapers are neat (good ol' true blacks) and a good usage of your Amoled screen (it even saves battery but I'm not sure if it's significant). Check out r/Amoledbackgrounds for more!
• For more information regarding desktop/launcher setups, r/androidthemes is a good place for inspiration, although those are more advanced. Widgets can be made using Zooper Widget Pro, but KLWP is known to be much better.
• Just a few of my setups over the years (all using Nova Launcher and Zooper): Coastal, Amoled Moon, Material Snow, Green and Blue.

So far, I haven't found anything I want to do that I can't already do without root.

• Dislike the stock launcher and want tons more customization of the look and feel? Nova Launcher

• Hate the Bixby button and wish that hardware key could do something else, even several things with tap / long press / double tap? BxActions and a quick ADB command.

• Wish that Samsung didn't disable System UI Tuner and the advanced tweaking options it allowed? SystemUI Tuner and a few quick ADB commands.

• Want to block ads? AdHell 2. (Note that I have not used this one yet and cannot personally vouch for how well it works.)

Generally, you can do 99% of what you'd want with free (or cheap) apps and 30 seconds in Command Prompt on your PC. Before rooting, be very clear what you need to do that you believe rooting will help with, then ask Google or Reddit how to do that without root.

In my opinion I think everyone should have

Nova Launcher-My favourite Launcher because of how customizable it is

Google Keep-I love keep because of how simple it is and the fact I can set a reminder in just a few taps

Google Photos-Free unlimited photo backup/storage

Wikipedia-Because I don't think it's said enough I wanted to include this app because of how great of a collection of articles Wikipedia has

Feedly(or any other RSS Reader) I use the official Feedly app mainly because I'm not an RSS power user so the official app suits my needs

Apphunt A great app to find new apps has a great community behind it.

KWGT-An app to create custom widgets like Zooper Widget but with a bit more functionality also supports user made widget packs

KLWP-I can't recommend this enough, this app allows you make a live wallpaper with complicated animations it can make your home screen look completely different. Some good examples Of KLWPs would be this and this it supports loading others themes onto you phone, also has a helpful G+ community and [subreddit](/r/Kustom) the dev is also on reddit /u/frankmonza

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If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

EDIT: calico_capo has pointed out that the mobile version of Imgur removes the transparencies which results in sharp black corners. To avoid this, use this link that adds "?desktop=1" to the end:

Desktop Version

• Launcher: Nova
• Home Row Icon Pack: Min
• Mini App Drawer Icon Pack: Holo Icons
• Wallpaper: From the download of Overwerk's <em>After Hours</em>

I set the center icon to actually be a folder containing my most used applications, and then set the swipe action to open the full app drawer. Essentially, if I want an app that I know isn't in the mini drawer, I'll swipe the button as opposed to tapping it.

Super simple to recreate this.

1. Download Nova Launcher from the play store
2. Download &quot;The Grid Free&quot; icon pack
3. Download the wallpaper

In Nova you can edit the icon pack under "look and feel" in the settings. Also, I played with the color of the search bar for a while in "desktop" the color code is #62d8fd if you'd like to use that.

Edit:

Since people are asking for sounds, here you go! I recommend downloading Zedge if you don't have it, more and more ringtones and notifications are being added. I've currently got a few of them in use:

Notifications: Spirit Orb Sheikah Slate Tower Loading Chest Open Slate Powerup Cooking Sound

Ringtones: Guardian Battle Trailer - my current ringtone BotW Ringtone

no you didn't see me reupload because I misspelled his name the second time, and imgur not keep it a png the first time

Thanks u/Hraaat for letting me edit your art! Here is his original reddit post and also here is the Twitter post

I'm going to borrow u/k23usa's instructions on how to make this your app's icon:

> Instructions: > > If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that. > > To change an app icon using Nova Launcher: > >* Long press the app icon > >* Press "Edit" > >* Tap the icon > >* Select "Gallery apps" > >* Search for the new icon you want from your phone

For those on Oreo 8.0 and above, Using Icon changer will not work with this method, but Nova Launcher will. And like k23usa, I have no idea if it's possible on iOS without Jailbreaking the phone. BUT if you are part of the 90%+ phones who still don't have Oreo, you can edit this, and when you update to Oreo the icon will still be there. So as long as you don't remove the shortcut upon updating you should be able to keep it!

Final disclaimer, I'm not a professional editor by any means, I just used Gimp to crop out the whiteness surrounding Airzura and place it on a transparent layer instead. I know it's not perfect, a tiny bit of her hair sash thing is cut off on the right, but for an app icon you're probably not going to see such a tiny detail.

Full Album

New Additions:

• Tana

• Seth

• Innes

• Amelia

• Valter

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

Aww...In the meantime.

Nova - [link]

Icon pack dev's profiles. Take a look at their work and see. Among the three, sikebo has the most unique look between his icon packs. Pick your poison, you own't be disappointed.

• sikebo, maker of Materialistik, Simpax and Retrorika - [link]
• Vertumus, maker of Dives and Elun; what Pixel icons should have looked like - [link]
• mowmo, if you like flat, material, cartoon-ish colorful icons - [link]

Ango Icon pack - [link]

KWGT - [link]

KWGT Unity - [link]

KWGT Ocea - [link]

Zooper - [link]

Zooper Unity 2 (my favorite of the bunch) - [link]

Zooper Ocea - [link]

Backdrops - [link]

Substratum - [link]

Mono - [link]

Reverie - [link]

Swift Black - [link]

Swift Dark - [link]

V3 Album 02 Imgur - Grid View (Might not have transparencies on mobile)

V3 Album 02 Imgur - Desktop View (Try this if transparencies don't work on mobile)

V3 Album 02 Imgur Zip Download (172 Images)

New Additions:

• Aversa

• Kliff

• Loki

• Owain

• Dorcas (Pumpkin Smasher)

• Kagero (Beverage Ninja)

• Mia (Moonlit Witch)

• Myrrh (Spooky Monster)

• Niles (Forbidden Tease)

• Tiki (Legendary Dragon)

• Helbindi

• Laegjarn

• Laevatein

• Garon

• Flora

• Nina

• Ophelia

• Silas

• Ethlyn

• Lewyn

• Quan

• Silvia

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V3 Album 01 Imgur - Desktop View (190 Images)

V3 Album 01 Imgur Zip Download (190 Images)

V2 Album Imgur - Desktop View (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur - Desktop View (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

You can make something similar on most android phones.

I use Nova Launcher as my base for interface.

Icon pack is called Rondo.

Wallpaper

The center clock and circle battery is cyanogenmod features.

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (43 Images)

New Additions:

• Armads

• Hector

• Hector 2: Hector Harder

• Hector with a Vengeance

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (337 Images)

New Additions:

• Summon Stone Background

• Summon Background

• Henry (Halloween)

• Jakob (Halloween)

• Jakob

• Niles

• Effie

• Lyn Emblem

• Lyn (Lady of the Wind)

• Tiki A (Summering Scion)

• Marisa

• Lucina (Spring Exalt)

• Tana

• Olivia (Festival Dancer)

• Athena

• Fir

• Lucina (Kozaki)

• Ayra (cuboon Cipher)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Resources

Nova Launcher

KLWP

Delta icon pack

Edited version of MT styles for KLWP, by Masaoka Taro

.klwp file

Edit: Background Image

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (168 Images)

New Additions:

• Celica: Warrior Priestess

  • Special with Border
  • Special Borderless
  • Special Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Portrait with Border
  • Portrait Borderless
  • Portrait Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Hector: Brave Warrior

  • Special with Border
  • Special Borderless
  • Special Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Portrait with Border
  • Portrait Borderless
  • Portrait Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Ephraim: Sacred Twin Lord

  • Special with Border - Green, Blue
  • Special Borderless - Green, Blue
  • Special Borderless & Titleless - Green, Blue
  • Portrait with Border - Green, Blue
  • Portrait Borderless - Green, Blue
  • Portrait Borderless & Titleless - Green, Blue

• Veronica: Brave Princess

  • Attack with Border - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Attack Borderless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Attack Borderless & Titleless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Special with Border - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Special Borderless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Special Borderless & Titleless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Portrait with Border - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Portrait Borderless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue
  • Portrait Borderless & Titleless - Orb, Black, Red, Blue

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (274 Images)

New Additions:

• Hinoka (Wings of Fate)

• Shigure (Wings of Fate)

• Kana F

• Kana M

• Kaze

• Corrin F

• Camus

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

well the guy specifically asked about my launcher so I think he can probably parse that but basically i installed this: [link]

and this: [link]

and then a combo of these two will get you the top bit but not exactly the same as how I did it: [link]

[link]

Thank you to everyone who has helped me so far, it's thanks to you I've been able to start publishing my work.

• Imgur Album
• Nova Launcher - Download
• Wallpaper

Bloom for KLWP supports both devices with a traditional 16:9 ratio display, or devices with a 18:5 ratio, like the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+.

Bloom for KLWP works best with all lockscreen elements disabled, most likely requiring root.

To install this wallpaper:

• Install Bloom for KLWP and select your screen size/ratio
• Install Kustom Live Wallpaper Pro from Google Play
• Open KLWP and swipe over from the left
• Choose Load Preset
• Select Bloom from the list of installed presets
• Customize Bloom to your liking by editing the info under the Globals section

Feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.

You can download the KLWP theme from here.

Everything Used -

Nova launcher - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&amp;hl=en_US

Icons - https://www.deviantart.com/fanatixx/art/All-Windows-95-OSR2-Icons-92282438

Note: These icons (.ico) probably only have to be scaled up (I did to 512x512) but since I'm stupid i went through the process of taking screenshots of the 5 icons I used, giving them transparent backgrounds, and then after realizing that nova didn't accept 32x32 images, scaling them up. If you dont want to go through that work for the icons you're gonna use, you can find mine here - https://imgur.com/a/IEE4c6d

I also ulploaded mine directly in from google photos, so that might've factored in.

Wallpaper - https://imgur.com/a/BccbMkP

Note: This includes one without the taskbar if you'd like to use that.

Apps -

• My phone = File explorer
• Internet = Chrome Canary
• Reddit = Reddit
• Drive = Google Drive
• Comms = Folder containing messaging apps and phone app

Extra notes: I would change the font and make the start button open the app drawer (home does that), but unfortunately I haven't rooted my phone and nova is bad at fonts, and nova (for some reason) won't let me disable my navbar on the homescreen.

This was done on a Google Nexus 6P, but should work on any device.

Full Album Imgur Link

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (300 Images)

New Additions:

• Sakura (Trick or Defeat!)

• Nowi (Trick or Defeat!)

• Jakob (Trick or Defeat!)

• Henry (Trick or Defeat!)

• Ayra (Orb Version)

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

Nova Launcher Prime

Zooper Widget Pro

Clock: MIN for Zooper I removed the background, changed the date font and added the weather.

Icons: Pivot

Wallpaper Can't stress enough how awesome I think this artist's work is. A lot of great potential wallpapers.

• Nova Launcher
• Open Nova Settings
• Select "Look and Feel"
• Turn off "Show Status Bar"

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (76 Images)

New Additions:

• Lucina: Glorious Archer

  • Portrait - Border &amp; Title
  • Portrait - Border &amp; Titleless
  • Portrait - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Portrait - Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Attack - Border &amp; Title
  • Attack - Border &amp; Titleless
  • Attack - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Attack - Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Special - Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Border &amp; Titleless
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Injured - Border &amp; Title
  • Injured - Border &amp; Titleless
  • Injured - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Injured - Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Lucina Emblem

  • Border
  • Borderless

• Tiki Emblem

  • Border
  • Borderless

• Walhart: The Conqueror

  • Special

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

It is a launcher for Android

Full Album Imgur Link

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (265 Images)

New Additions:

• Olivia (Performing Arts)

• Inigo (Performing Arts)

• Azura (Performing Arts)

• Shigure (Performing Arts)

• Black Knight

• Nephenee

• Oscar

• Elincia

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer. There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

EDIT: I've figured out a way to add a download link for the Imgur Album, so I have added that to the top. However, they won't have proper filenames for easy hero searching and they may not be of the same quality as pre-upload, so if a mod could let me know of a hosting site that won't get blocked I could use that to provide the original copies with correct filenames. I like to use Box, but I know it gets the post blocked.

EDIT 2: For the record, I do take special icon requests (some of the existing icons were special requests in the past), but I usually only have time to do them during the weekdays.

Very straightforward theme using this wallpaper, Nova Launcher, and Cornie Icons.

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (148 Images)

New Additions:

• Roy (Love Abounds)

• Lilina (Love Abounds)

• Hector (Love Abounds)

• Lyn (Love Abounds)

• Eliwood (Love Abounds)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Nova Launcher

Cornerfly

Substratum Theme Engine

- Lock Screen

- Nav Bar

BlackPlayer EX (for widget)

Wall

Nova launcher link is wrong (goes to Messenger): Link here

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (190 Images)

New Additions:

• Marth: Hero King

• Jamke: Prince of Verdane

• Fjorm/Veronica

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Things I used:

• Nova Launcher
• Pixel Icon Pack
• Another Widget
• &quot;Night&quot; Wallpaper
• &quot;Day&quot; Wallpaper

launcher: Nova, of course. just the level of customisation I need.
SMS: Pulse. very clean UI inspired by Google Inbox, with some options to customise it to your liking.
alarm clock: Sleep as Android. includes sleep tracking feature that tries to wake you at the most optimal time. also includes some nice alarm tones. although don't use singing birds, or you'll soon find yourself waking up at 4 am when actual birds start singing outside your window. I guess Pavlov was onto something after all.
music player: plenty to choose from. I've been using GoneMAD for the longest time, but I got tired of the UI (although the dev is preparing a major 3.0 update with refreshed interface), so I'm now using the free version of BlackPlayer. it's smooth, pretty and does anything I want it to do.
browser: Brave. I'm a Firefox user on desktop, but Firefox for Android is still clunky to use, and the scrolling is pretty horrible. until it gets fixed, Brave is a smooth Chromium-based browser with a built-in ad and tracking blocker.
maps: MAPS.ME. it's a FOSS app using OpenStreetMap data. I find it more detailed than Google Maps (although less businesses are added for now; the gap is being slowly, but steadily closed though, as the data is contributed by volunteers). you can even download maps of whole countries or regions for offline viewing.
notes: FairNote. a simple, offline note taking app with the option to back up your data to Google Drive. you can colour code your notes, or lock some of them with a password/fingerprint.
keyboard: Gboard. my phone comes with Swiftkey preinstalled, but I can't stand how clunky it is, and when Gboard implement simultaneous input in multiple languages, I jumped ship and didn't look back. or I should rather say, I did look back several times, but Swiftkey gets in my way much more than Gboard does. plus swiping across the space bar to move the cursor around and swiping from the backspace key to delete big parts of the text at once are too useful to give up.

As a Samsung and Nexus owner, I always install Nova Launcher because of it's customizability and speed.

>Customization (in general). I’ve heard so many people say how customizable android is, but I haven’t found that to be the case at all. Its notification handling is a giant step back for me. I mean, maybe it IS super configurable, and I’m just dumb, but the system menus are actually hell. I have to go into 30 different menus to find anything, and the on-device search can’t bring my directly where I want to go,

If you wanna mess with customizing your desktop then I'd suggest downloading Nova Launcher.

>No notification LED. Mitigated by the moto hover thingy.

Most Android phones have LED, but sometimes there are exceptions like with the Galaxy A5 & the Moto Z Play. To me, they were cool at first, but then they got annoying.

>Email is a MAJOR pain point. I still haven’t found an email client that doesn’t screw around. Gmail so far is the best, but i’m still not used to conversation view, and i can’t seem to sync all my folders on my inbox regularly. I have subfolders organized to route emails for each one of my potential customers, and I want to be able to get an overhead view of all folders for new/recent emails, and be able to drill down and focus in on certain ones at a time. I haven't found a way to do that. Subfolders desync constantly. Outlook is shit. Doesn’t load anything, and it’s buggy as hell. Don’t get me started on inbox. I just want my damn email again. I've maybe replied to 50 emails in 6 months, while I used to basically live on my Z10 (~30+ emails a week).

Your email is Outlook, Gmail, Office365, etc? There are really good 3rd party apps for some.

>No dedicated mute button…

While this isn't as good as a hardware mute button, but maybe use Tasker to set a method for muting the device?

>Android's bluetooth file transfer support is pitiful. I know you guys probably don’t care about this one, but I can’t send attachments through my work email

It is true that I don't know of anyone who uses Bluetooth for anything besides connecting to a device to play music. Perhaps upload them top GDrive or use a 3rd party app to transfer via WiFi?

>No built in music player. Well kinda. I’m really not sure. If I kick on a song in a media player app and kill the media player app, the music keeps playing? wtf? I've been using VLC as my media player.

I really like BlackPlayer. Not sure if it has a built-in option to stop music when dismissed from recent apps or not.

>As a toy, android is great. As a tool for doing my job, it’s a little rough compared to BB10

Check out BlackBerry's Android apps. Maybe some of them will be on par their BB counterparts and you'd find them useful

Home Screen Customization

Nova Launcher (Prime)

I'm starting with Nova, as it's the perfect example of an "obvious" tip, yet many new Android users may not be aware of just how awesome Nova Launcher really is. For those unfamiliar, Nova Launcher is the launcher for personalizing your home screen and putting your own spin on your Android device. To find out just how useful Nova Launcher can be, download it and try it for yourself or read any of the literally hundreds of threads about it on Reddit. To unlock the full potential of Nova Launcher, I recommend also downloading Tesla Unread and upgrading to the Prime version if you like the app. I also highly recommend joining the Nova Launcher Beta. In addition to getting to test the latest features sooner, the beta has some of the features from the Pixel Launcher that the regular version is missing, such as the slide-up app drawer and the search pill.

(Note: The "swipe left for Google Now" feature is exclusive to the Pixel Launcher. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. Anyone who can't live without this functionality will either have to forgo Nova Launcher or utilize Nova Launcher's customizable gestures as a workaround. This is extremely easy to do by going into the Nova settings and tapping "gestures and inputs".)

Zooper Widget (Pro)/KWGT

Zooper and KWGT are two powerful, user friendly apps that allow users to create, download, and share custom widgets for just about anything you could imagine. Perfect for those looking to take their Android customization to the next level or simply add the finishing touches to their "perfect" home screen. Numerous predesigned widget packs are available for both from the Play Store.

Because of the sheer volume of predesigned packs available from the Play Store and the fact that taste is totally subjective, I'm not going to link any specific packs here, but if anyone else wants to share their favorite pack(s) feel free.

Icon Packs

Icon packs are perfect for bringing your custom theme together. There are literally hundreds available from the Play Store.

Like Zooper/KWGT widget packs, anyone who wants to share their favorite icon packs feel free.

(Note: Without rooting, icon packs will not work with the Pixel Launcher. They are, however, supported natively by third-party launchers such as Nova.)

System UI Tuner

System UI Tuner provides additional customization options to your Pixel, such as the ability to view your battery percentage in the status bar. To activate the System UI Tuner, swipe down the notification shade and tap and hold the gear icon for a few seconds. It will then be near the bottom of your settings menu.

Google Keyboard Themes

Don't like the default white keyboard theme on your Pixel, but love the Google Keyboard otherwise? Go to Settings > Language & input > Virtual keyboard > Google Keyboard > Themes to pick from a number of different themes for your keyboard.

Notification LED or Always-on Display

Light Flow (Pro)/Light Manager (Pro)

For those looking to take control of their app notifications (specifically their notification LED), two popular options are Light Flow and Light Manager. Both give the user much greater control over their app notifications and both have pro versions that, for a small fee, provide additional features, such as alternating between notification light colors. I personally prefer Light Manager, but many would disagree.

(Note: To enable the pulsing notification LED, go to Settings > Notifications and tap the gear icon in the upper righthand corner.)

(Note 2: Android requires that all apps running in the background show a persistent notification in the notification shade. If the persistent notification is disabled, the system may kill the process that makes these apps work to reduce memory usage. This can only be disabled by rooting. It is generally best just to keep the persistent notification enables.)

(Edit: u/iboj007 has a simple workaround for the persistent notification problem (for Light Flow).)

Always On AMOLED

For fans of "always on" displays, such as Samsung's phones (insert Note 7 joke here), Always On AMOLED brings this functionality to your Pixel and, unlike the built-in ambient display, it actually works!

(Note: The Pixel's notification LED will only work with the screen off, meaning the pulsing notification light (and, by extension Light Flow and Light Manager) will not work (properly) with this app enabled. Always On AMOLED can be set to turn off after specific intervals of non-use or when the battery is low, effectively allowing your phone to "switch" between the two methods, should you want to do this for whatever reason. I recommend using the standard pulsing notification light over Light Flow or Light Manager if you plan to go this route, however. The less processes running the better.)

(Edit: If you're having issues with Always On AMOLED, try turning off the ambient display under your phone's display settings. I have noticed that ambient display can cause some issues with notifications not displaying properly on Always On, but it seems to be hit-or-miss. Realistically, there's no reason to have both on anyway.)

Quick Settings Tiles

Tile Extension for Nougat is a useful free app for customizing the quick setting tiles in the notification shade. Customizable "shortcuts" let you quickly access your favorite apps or settings you access frequently.

TL;DR

Nova Launcher (Prime)

Tesla Unread

Nova Launcher Beta

Zooper Widget

KWGT

Light Flow

Light Manager (Pro)

Always On AMOLED

Tile Extension for Nougat

Edit: Tasker. I can't believe I forgot about Tasker. For those unfamiliar, Tasker is an app designed to automate, well, just about whatever you want your phone to do. Here's a good write-up on it.

Being able to replace the launcher is definitely one of Android's superpowers. Somebody even did a faux WP launcher.

iOS got around to third-party keyboards, so maybe someday they'll lighten up on the launcher.

You can solve that problem with a custom launcher like Nova for example.

Very simple!

Download a launcher, I use Nova!

EDIT: Make sure that after you have successfully downloaded and installed Nova that you set it as your default home screen. Your device should ask what Home screen you wish to use the first time you hit your home button after installing the app, make sure you select Nova and then 'Always use this.' and you should be fine.

Then download an icon pack, I used Simply 8bit, by Jenning

After that, you go into the Nova launcher settings (can be accessed by holding the screen for a few seconds then hitting the wrench in the top right) then tap the 'Look and Feel' option, then 'Icon Theme' and then 'Simply 8 bit'

Play around with Nova! It's pretty neat and you can make some really nice looking phone desktops. I updated my desktop a little since I made this thread, Here it is now

If you're using iPhone then I'm sorry I don't know how to get anything to look like that, iirc iPhones have very limited ricing capabilities.

Nova Launcher, it's like being able to choose from any layouts that the Google Now Launcher and the Pixel Launcher went through. Or you can download the Pixel Launcher's APK from APKMirror.

Hey Uke, here's some instructions from a different sub that I use to change my icons. I use Nova launcher on Android, but follow the link for how to do it on IOS, hope this helps!

Icon Changing Apps for IOS (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (what I use)

• Icon Changer

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

This is the first time I've put effort into making it look half decent.

Nova Launcher
KLWP
Compacticons
Open Sans
Wallpaper + image used

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (181 Images)

New Additions:

• Chrom (The Branded King)

• Morgan M

• Morgan F

• Gerome

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

My setup.

I was inspired by this amazing setup. Credit goes to u/newone757 for that one.

However, I've made a few changes to better suit my taste:

• Changed the dock background shape in Nova from square to round.
• Changed the dock background colour to match the wallpaper (using the actual colour palette found in the wallpaper). I've modified other items throughout the launcher to match the rest of the colours.
• Changed the font used in the KWGT widget from Futura and Roboto to Product Sans.
• Used Cornie icons instead of Funkong. Funkong was a bit too wild for my aesthetic taste when I set this up.
• Shifted the layout around ever so slightly, and modified the date widget to also display the day in short format.
• The single bottom icon is actually a swipeable folder, containing Google Play Music (my primary streaming service); Retro Music Player (for locally-based albums); Spotify (the recommendations are superior to GPM, but I'm in a country where they don't offer premium membership so I'm stuck on the free tier) and YouTube.
• I've not implemented the music widget page, that might come later.

I also changed from using All in One Gestures to using Gesture Control, which closer mimics the iPhone X gesture methods, and I find that it works better along the usual navbar area.

The wallpaper is from MKBHD's wallpaper folder he's posted onto Google Drive.

Links:

• Nova Launcher
• KWGT Kustom Widget Maker
• Blur Wallpaper
• Cornie Icons
• Gesture Control
• Wallpaper link

Oh, I used Screener for the screenshot. Link is elsewhere in the thread.

EDIT: My initial screenshot had WhatsApp as my bottom-most icon. The current one has it the way it's now setup, and in line with my actual description.

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New Additions:

• Missing Legendary Secret Characters

• The Reinhardt in all his magical glory

• Our savior, Oliver

• Micaiah

• Sothe

• Black Knight (No Helmet)

• Black Knight (Yes Helmet)

• Inigo

• Olivia

• Shigure

• Not Azura

• Azura

• Summer F Corrin

• Summer F Robin

• Summer A Tiki

• Lute

• Peri

• Clarisse

• Sheena

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

Old Album Imgur Link with the rest of the heroes

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Full Album Imgur Link

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (36 Images)

New Additions:

• Tharja

• Faye

• Priscilla

• Rhajat

• Dorcas

• Catria

• Katarina

• Sigurd

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

• launcher: Nova
• back: KLWP
• wall: here
  
• icons: Lines and Glyphsy
• file: here, messy but mine with heavily edited week progress bar
  
• inspiration: here, don't know the exact source though, I only kept the pic

The string of percent symbols are just placeholders so I know where to put screenshots.

So for this tutorial to make the "Our Ends Are Beginnings" android theme we're going to need a few apps and files to

start. The apps you'll need are:

• Nova Launcher

• Kustom Live Wallpaper

• ThemeX

• Glyphsy

And the File you'll need is:

• The wallpaper

The Setup

To set up your phone so that you get the clean look you'll need to change a few things in Nova launcher.

• Set the Wallpaper Scrolling to 'on' (Settings->Desktop->Wallpaper Scrolling->On)

• Set the amount of screens to three

• Turn the dock 'off' (Settings->Dock->Toggle switch on the top right)

• Turn off the notification bar and make the on screen buttons have transparent backgrounds (Settings->Look and

Feel-> Notification Bar-> Show Notification bar to 'off'-> Transparent Notification Bar to 'on')

In order to use the Glyphsy icons in klwp you have to use ThemeX to extract the files and put them all into a folder.

To do this:

1. Open up ThemeX

2. Select Glyphsy

3. Click 'select all' and select 'icons' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

4. Click 'save'

The last thing to do is to delete everything off of your homescreens since they'll cover up the klwp assets. You can

leave that to the end though so that you don't have to remake your current setup if you don't like this one. Alright

now on to the hard part.

Making the Theme in KLWP

So the first thing we need to do in klwp is make sure that we have a new, blank wallpaper to work with. The easiest

way to do this is to load a blank wallpaper. (Menu->Load Preset->New)%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Now you should have an empty wallpaper and klwp should look something like this.

Global Switch

The first thing we'll do is set up the global switch that allows the vertical scrolling.

1. Scroll the lower options bar (Items, background etc) over till you see 'Globals'.%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

2. Make a new Global by tapping the '+' at the top of the screen.

3. Make the title of the Global 'Depths'

4. Change the type of Global from 'Color' to 'On/Off Switch'

5. Leave the 'Auto On' and 'Auto Off' options on 'Manual'

It should look something like [this](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Background and Static Text

We'll start by making the Background. In order to make it scroll and not be static we make it an item and don't use

the background tab.

1. Go to the Items tab

2. Make a new item by clicking the '+' at the top right

3. Click 'Image'

Now you have an image item in your items tab. It should look like [this](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

1. Open the image item

2. Click on 'Pick Image'%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

3. Select the background image from your gallery or wherever you saved it

4. Set 'Width' to 720

Static text one, "Our Ends"

1. Make a Text item

2. Open the item and click on 'text'](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

3. Delete $df(hh:mm:ss)$ and replace it with ['Our Ends'](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

4. Change the font to 'DancingScript-Regular'

5. Change the text size to '80'

6. Go to the [position tab](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

7. Change the anchor to 'Center'

8. Change the Y-Offset to 300

Static text two, "Are Beginnings"

1. Make a Text item

2. Open the item and click on 'text'](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

3. Delete $df(hh:mm:ss)$ and replace it with ['Are Beginnings'](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

4. Change the font to 'DancingScript-Regular'

5. Change the text size to '80'

6. Go to the [position tab](%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

7. Change the anchor to 'Center'

8. Change the X-Offset to 20

9. Change the Y-Offset to 1280

Background and Static Text Animations

1. Open the image item

2. Go to the animation tab

3. Make a new animation (+ sign at the top)

4. Open the new animation

5. Set the ReactOn to 'Global Switch'

6. Set the Global to 'Depths'

7. Change the speed to 150

8. Change the angle to 270

For the static text to remain in the same spot all we'll do is copy and paste that same animation we just made into

the two text items.

1. Click on the box to the right of the animation %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

2. Copy the animation (Copy symbol in the top right)

3. Open the text items animation tab

4. Paste the animation

Now that we have the animations set we need to set the text so that we toggle the global switch when we touch them.

1. Open one of the text items

2. Open the touch tab

3. Create a new touch element

4. Set the element to 'Toggle Global Switch' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

5. Set the Switch to 'Depths' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

6. Repeat steps 1-5 for the other text item. You could copy paste but sometimes that doesn't work for me.

At this point if you haven't been saving the wallpaper now's a good time to do so. Once you do you should be able to

test the animations we just made by going to your home screen and clicking on the text. Now that we have that out of

the way we can move on to the more interesting parts of the theme.

I like it nice and simple

Looks much better in our AMOLED display btw :)

Launcher: Nova

Wallpaper : Welcome to Jupiter

Icon Pack: Stealth Icon Pack

My Setup =)

• Launcher: Nova Launcher
• lcon Pack: Audax - Icon Pack
• Wallpaper: Muzei, with a reddit extension
• Widgets: Event Flow - for calender, Google Keep - Note Taking, iOS like Control Center
• Zooper Widgets: Weather, Clock/Date

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (21 Images)

New Additions:

• Ryoma (Supreme Samurai)

• Karla

• Legault

• Nino (Pale Flower)

• Linus

• Canas

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Information Required for Icon Requests:

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). To make sure I get the icon just how you want it, please provide the following information when requesting a custom icon:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (15 Images)

New Additions:

• Tharja (Bridal Bloom)

• Ninian (Bridal Bloom)

• Sanaki (Bridal Bloom)

• Marth (Bridal Bloom)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Information Required for Icon Requests:

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). To make sure I get the icon just how you want it, please provide the following information when requesting a custom icon:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (228 Images)

New Additions:

• Finn

• Saias

• Nanna

• Leif

• Olwen (World of Thracia)

• Reinhardt (World of Thracia)

• Robin F (Fell Vessel)

• Arvis

• Joshua

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Ok for that you will need the following:

The wallpaper

A custom launcher, I suggest Nova Launcher

Lines Icon Pack

Zooper Widgets

Fox for Zooper (Fox Zooper 40)

First you need to set Nova launcher as your default launcher by opening the app and follow the instructions. Then go into the settings and change stuff to your liking.

Next on your home screen press your home button and tap widgets. Scroll down to find Zooper Widgets. Find the size widget you want to use and tap and hold to drag it onto your home screen, resize it as necessary then tap it. Here it will take you into Zooper Widgets and here should be a list of options. Tap Fox for Zooper and scroll down and find FoxZooper40 select it and this applies it to your home screen.

Icons next, select which apps you want on your home screen by opening your app drawer and tapping and holding it to place them where you want. When they are in place, tap and hold on each app, select edit, tap on the picture of the icon. This takes you to where you select your icon pack, select Lines then find the appropriate icon and tap it to select it.

Finally set your wallpaper by downloading it, open gallery, tap on it, tap the 3 dots top right and tap set as wallpaper.

If you're having issues, let me know.

I don't know if I would jump straight into Tasker. I don't mean to downplay Tasker, it's great and I use it daily. I would just focus on other things first.

I would recommend a replacement launcher like Nova Launcher, along with some icon packs. Vertumus makes my favorite ones. Muzei is great for wallpaper.

If you like podcasts, check Pocket Casts.

Disk Usage is great for all of the obvious reasons.

In Google Maps, save your local area for offline mode. It'll save you some data.

Very straightforward theme using this wallpaper, Nova Launcher, and Cornie Icons.

Hey everybody! For this theme I used Nova Launcher and KLWP.

I was inspired by this post and saw it looked fantastic on my s6 edge, so I tried something of my own and came up with this monstrosity.

HERE is the klwp file.

Edit: this is a 3 screen home page with the home on the left most.

^^^Note ^^^to ^^^self: ^^^Add ^^^"Android" ^^^to ^^^future ^^^titles

Full Album Imgur Link (Desktop Mode for Best Quality)

Full Album Imgur Zip Download (160 Images)

New Additions:

• Robin M (Fallen Heroes)

• Hardin (Fallen Heroes)

• Celica (Fallen Heroes)

• Takumi (Fallen Heroes)

• Laegjarn

• Ephraim (Legendary Lord)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Old Album Imgur Link (Old Icon Format that has all missing characters from new format)

Old Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

It's been a while since I made a theme I thought was worth sharing. I recently made this and I love it. Both the item block and the coins are folders for those wondering. The score beneath "MARIO" is the date, just with the spaces removed and the coin counter shows battery percentage.

Apologies to the original creator of the wallpaper, I can't find the link so I've re-uploaded it here.

Made in Nova Launcher (Naturally :p).

Icon Pack is PixBit.

Widgets at the top were custom made using Zooper Widget Pro. They're just some basic text using the Pixelmix font.

For those who want to make this themselves, I've uploaded the version on the wallpaper without writing under "MARIO", "WORLD", "TIME", and the text next to the coins here. For those who want the Nova Launcher Settings, I set the Grid Size to 11 by 7, and the icons are at 135% their original size.

The only issue I have with this theme is that I wish I could've got a font to match the original better, or at the very least got it in full caps, but apparently Pixelmix doesn't support the full caps drawing mode.

EDIT: Updated imgur link here.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the setup!

Functionality:
Swipe up for app drawer
Swipe down for notifications and settings
The 4 icons in the bottom right are folders

Launcher: Nova Launcher (9x6)
Icon pack: DarkMatter
Widet: Huk Zooper, modified by me
Wallapaper: By /u/GoonerLivesMatter, modified by me

Welcome to the club

1. You can try a different launcher. Nova Launcher is a crowd favorite. It lets you have a tighter grid of icons, assign swipe gestures to individual icons and the whole screen, experiment with different layouts and transitions.
2. You can add a power off icon to your quick settings or edge panel apps using a little tool called Screen off via Short time out. Other screen off apps prevent you from using biometric authentications the next time you turn on the screen, but this one doesn't. I can keep using fingerprint/iris to turn on the screen.
3. There are many good app-drawer replacements, I like App Dialer the best: lets me use a T9 dialpad to quickly search for any app or contact without flipping through long lists of icons. I even placed its icon in my apps' edge panel, so I can access it from any screen.
4. If you are into trying new, not so common looks, BubbleCloud widget lets you arrange your app icons into circle clusters and you can use a different icon pack for each screen. I posted homescreen a few weeks ago, but here are a bunch of other examples too.
5. You can get the classic, more capable S Notes note taking app from the Galaxy App Store. Here is a video from one of my favorite tech reviewers showing you all the mind blowing capabilities of S Notes: Samsung's best kept secret on the Galaxy Note 5 (S Note In Depth Review)
6. If you are into note taking, I am a big fan of the app Lecture Notes: One of the most customizable and complete note taking package. Does much much more than Samsung Notes or S Notes, like layers, synchronizing audio recording to your notes etc.

Nova Launcher is my go to for getting things just the way I want them, although the stock experience on the S7 is pretty good. [link]

• Launcher: Nova Launcher
• Wallpaper: here (source: here)
• Icon Pack: Lines Free
• Widget: Created in KWGT

It's Nova Laucher ([link]) + KLWP Live Wallpaper ([link]).

I am using a modified version of this wallpaper for KLWP: [link]

1. Install Nova Launcher (or any launcher with customization options really.)
2. Setup three home screens which are all blank and set the middle as the main screen.
3. Install KWLP and set it as your wallpaper (shows up under live wallpapers.)
4. Install Tranquil for Kustom KLWP and load it in the KLWP app.

Instead of apps and widgets on the home screen everything is part of the wallpaper which support touch events, updates toggles, etc.

Launcher - Nova Launcher

Icon Pack - Magme Icon Pack

Widget - Chronus: Home &amp; Lock Widget

Wallpaper - here

/u/dudecof linked my setup but I'll copy it here for those who don't want to dig for a link.

Nova Launcher

Zopper Widget Pro

Rad Pack Free (Icons)

Retro Zooper Skins

Wallpaper

Nova Launcher

wallpaper

Zooper Widget Pro

Zeon Red icon pack

First screen is main apps and app drawer, second is folders of different types of apps.

Launcher - Nova Launcher 8x12 with Subgrid positioning || Large width padding, No height padding

Icon Pack - CandyCons, Lines for dock

Wallpaper - This really high def wallpaper. I accept bitcoins

Dock - large width and height padding

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• Blue Dot - Play Store, Amazon, Financius, Taxi, Movie apps - basically shit where I have to pay money
• Yellow Dot - Music, Video, Pictures app - Media Folder
• Red Dot - Muh Social Life
• Green Dot - WhatsApp, Hangouts, Messenger, Inbox by gmail
• Browser is chrome and swiping opens up a folder with Solid explorer, Drive,Dropbox and other apps that I use sometimes.
• Swiping up contacts gives me direct dial and direct message.

All the apps in folder are themed in Lines icon pack

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I have another home screen page which has a calender widget from this app and that cross is an app called Pixel Filter.

I really enjoy Nova Launcher.

Yo, glad you like it. I made this theme using Nova Launcher Pro. This is the wallpaper. The windows and the text on the bottom are all separate Zooper widgets. You can find those files here.

The widget named "main nav" includes a background image of the Windows 95 tab, and invisible rectangles on top of that background that are programmed to open the app drawer, as well as launch the phone, texting, email and web browser applications, but you'll probably have to customize those to the applications you use. To do that, click on the widget, tap "Layout" and select the rectangle with the label you want to have link to your app. Then scroll to "Module on Tap." This will let you select the app you want that icon to launch.

Does that make sense? I'm afraid that it could all be a bit much if you don't play around with theming. Just let me know how I can help out.

Full credit to Deviantart user yohandeku32 for the design. I stumbled across it and thought I'd try to recreate it with a simple animation.

Shoutout to /u/ScrewDatThing for some initial help with KLWP

Icons: Compacticons (with a color edit)

Launcher: Nova

KLWP File: Here

I was inspired by this picture, but the only part of it I actually used was a story from the building. I just linked this because linking a wallpaper is required.

Big thanks to u/TurkuSama for coming up with the idea of the sliding layers. (I think this is where the obligatory Discord plug goes)

The fonts used are Anonymous Pro and Yesteryear.

Other stuff used: Nova Launcher, KLWP, and Screen Recorder

Oh, and here is the KLWP file

FAQ: >How do I use this theme?

You will need to download KLWP along with the Pro key.

Once you have the pro version of KLWP, this video does a good job of explaining how to import the file.

I highly recommend using Nova Launcher, because the app drawer button is set up to work with Nova. This is a one page setup, so you will only need one page. Since there are touch areas near the bottom, you will need to make sure the dock is turned off in Nova settings.

>Will this work on a phone with an 18:9 display?

It should in theory work on an 18:9 display; the one thing you may have to change is the Y-Offset of the date and time, as it may appear higher on your display.

>Will this work on a phone with on-screen navigation buttons?

~~It will be a pain in the ass to try to change this to accommodate a nav bar because I was lazy and didn't use globals, but if I have the time to change it in the next couple days, I will.~~

EDIT: It was easier to implement than I initially thought; I have updated the file. Go to Globals and turn on the nav bar switch, then edit nav ht until it is the same height as your nav bar. I tested this briefly, but not thoroughly so please let me know if you have issues with it.

>Why is the KLWP file locked?

Because of this

If you have any other questions feel free to PM me or comment on this post. I will try to reply to all comments. :)

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New Additions:

• Tharja (Winter's Envoy)

• Lissa (Winter's Envoy)

• Robin M (Winter's Envoy)

• Chrom (Winter's Envoy)

Instructions:

If you're on Android, some devices can natively change the game app icon, otherwise you can use an app like Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7) or Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo). There might be an app for iOS, but I have no experience with that.

To change an app icon using Nova Launcher:

• Long press the app icon

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Search for the new icon you want from your phone

My October Home Screen. Phoenix AZ inspired

Wallpaper is from Reddit user /u/User9113 [link]

Launcher is Nova Launcher [link]

Icon theme is Delta [link]

Clock is from mnml UI for Zooper [link]

I'm using this as my lockscreen and wallpaper, I'm also using nova luncher.

OFF WHITE letters are used folders with apps.

Links:

Lockscreen

Wallpaper

Nova launcher

Icon pack

I use Nova Launcher: [link]

Made with Nova Launcher (beta)

Icons

Wallpaper

Edit: the wallpaper

i've used this:

• Nova launcher: [link]

• Zooper widget pro: [link]

• Polycon icon pack: [link]

• Flat Material Zooper: [link]

• Wallpaper: [link]

Widget name: Android N Notification.

Colors:

• Blue: #ff0091ea
• Orange: #ffff5722

working gif: [link]

Tutorial of how you can add new buttons in: [link]

What I've used:

• Nova Launcher - Link

• Minimist Clock Widget - Link

• Min - Icon Pack - Link

• Flat Style Bar Indicators (For the status bar icons) (Xposed required)

• Zooper Widget Pro (for an invisible app drawer button in the center of the app ring) - Link

<strong>Wallpaper</strong>

Nova Launcher Settings

Desktop grid: 6x6 (with Subgrid Positioning)

Icon Size: 150%

Hide Clock (Desktop Only) (root required)

^^^^Created ^^^^on ^^^^Galaxy ^^^^S6 ^^^^with ^^^^XtreStoLite ^^^^Rom

• Nova Launcher - [link] By far the best, most customizable launcher. Essential, IMO, and worth the couple bucks for the Prime version if you find you love it as much as I do.

• Textra for SMS - [link] Far better than the stock SMS messages app.

• Pocket - [link] For saving articles to be read later / removing ads / syncs with web

• Tune In Radio - [link] It's biggest problem is that it tries to do TOO MUCH, but this is still the best way to tune into pretty much any radio station in the country.

• Player.FM - [link] Best podcast app I've found, if you're into that sort of thing.

• SwiftKey - [link] Best keyboard IMO. Some like Swype, some like Google Keyboard, I like SwiftKey.

• Relay for Reddit - [link] The best reddit app. I've tried 'em all. Some people like Sync more, but they are wrong. :)

• Pushbullet - [link] ESSENTIAL app, move things, files, photos, links, etc. around from your computer to your phone, and the other way around. You can also send text messages from your laptop. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

As a huge MCU fan, i really enjoyed making this, i hope my fellow MCU fans like it too.

> Video Tutorial

> Written Tutorial

Setup Detail:

• Nova Launcher

• Zooper Widget Pro

• Wafer For Zooper

• Delta Icon Pack

Wallpaper

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New Additions:

• Catria (Hares at the Fair)

• Kagero (Hares at the Fair)

• Sharena (Hares at the Fair)

• Alfonse (Hares at the Fair)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer (may still not be updated for Oreo)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

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Mine

Nova Launcher

Unicorn Dark icon pack

Wallpaper

Clock widget from Rad Pack Pro

Screenshot with Screener

Themes Used:

• Wallpaper
• Icons
• KLWP File
• Launcher

> >No prob, get Nova launcher

> No prob, get Nova launcher

No Prob, get Nova launcher

Glyphsy for the 4 icons at the bottom.

Nova Launcher (I have Prime, and I'd definitely recommend buying it, it's fantastic.

Zooper Widget for the search bar, which I made myself. Link.

Europa Zooper provides the clock, which was modified slightly to give drop shadows that help separate the clock from the background. The specific widget is called "Europa-017".

It's pretty much stock Android 7.0 beyond that. Dropped DPI to make everything a little smaller, and anyone can do that without root.

Here's My Setup

Unlocked 930U purchased from Swappa with the slim black Incipio case

I've had this phone for less than 24 hours and I'm really liking it

• Nova Launcher (+Prime) Because I will never like Touchwiz, but Sammy's hardware is great, so.. yea. Also, CUSTOMIZATIONS!

• Glim Lite Icon Pack for some icons (I hate Samsung's phone icon). The good thing about using Icon packs with Nova is once you're all set up, you can delete the icon pack and the icons will stay as you've created them. Also works with Nova Backups from phone to phone.

• Good Lock for Nexus-like notifications and quick toggles (From Samsung App Store)

• Torchie for launching and exiting flashlight in any state (screen off, locked, screen on) by pressing volume up and down together. Because who wants to swipe through home screens and notification shades when your hands are all greasy from working on your car?

• Galaxy Button Lights for keeping nav keys off at all times

• Button Remapper for Nexus-like nav layout

• easyHome for Samsung for Nexus-like simple touch of home button (no pressing required). Only works with phone unlocked when fingerprint lock is enabled.

• Nova Launcher

• Pushbullet

• Native Clipboard

• Link Bubble Browser

• Chromer

• Sync for reddit

First get a launcher, I recommend Nova, try out the free version. Then download an icon pack, there are tons to choose from, look through some of the posts here, chances are the op has posted which icon pack they used. Then get widgets if you want, maybe start out with a clock/date and/or weather widget. The new thing to use is KLWP which is a customizable live wallpaper maker, and KWGT a stand alone widget maker, there's a bit of a learning curve, but you can make pretty much anything you want, even an rss widget for news. You can also download pre-made KWGT or KLWP layouts from the play store and just install and put it on your homescreen. You can also get Zooper Widget to make widgets, it's been around for a while and the learning curve isn't as steep. you can also download pre-made widgets for this on the play store. That should get your feet wet for now, here's some links to the apps I mentioned and some other stuff you might like.

Note: I think you need the pro versions of zooper and KLWP/kwgt to import pre-made widgets.

• Kustom LWP
• Kustom Widget
• Nova Launcher
• Zooper Widget Pro
• Weather Timeline (awesome weather app with customizable widgets)
• Month (lots of different calendar widgets)
• Cornie icons
• Glim icon pack
• Zooper by Beard (for zooper Widget, he has some other packs too)
• Wallsplash (my fave place for wallpapers)
• Tapet (also for wallpapers)

I'm bored, so let me know if you have any questions!

For customisation.

Download a different launcher from the Play Store. These change the way your phone works/looks/feels. Nova, Hola, Smart, Action, Google Now: pretty much all the top launchers are better than the standard. I personally recommend Nova Launcher

Also, search "icon packs" in the Play Store. Take a look through them and download the ones you like. I can't speak for other launchers, but on Nova you long-press an app, tap 'edit' and pick an icon to change it. If you'd prefer, you can also download images from the web to use as icons.

A widget maker is optional, but recommended for theming. Zooper Widget and KLWP are commonly used. There are also individual widgets, such as Minimal Clock.

Obviously there's the official Theme Store too, but it's pretty dissapointing aside from the material themes and a couple of the darker ones.

That should get you started. For inspiration and help, see /r/androidthemes

Also, for the record, here's my home screen.

Launcher: Nova Launcher

CM12 Theme: Euphoria Dark

Icons: Glyphs by Tokem

Circles around mountain: Minimalist Clock Widget

Wallpaper: KLWP, 3x wallpapers at end of album.

Music widget: Shuttle+

Font for date: Popsies

Calendar: Calendar Widget Month + Agenda

Notification shade blur: Blurred UI (requires root + xposed)

I'm really digging Nova at the moment.

A bit late to the party but here is my Homescreen entry (Releasing my inner wolf :D ):

[link]

• Launcher - Nova
• Icon Pack - Voxel
• Clock Widget - Zooper

Launcher: Nova

Icons: Whicons

KLWP file: Here

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New Additions:

• Micaiah: Summer's Dawn

  • Special - Purple Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Pink Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Xander: Dancing Knight

  • Special - Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Ryoma: Dancing Samurai

  • Special - Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Borderless &amp; Titleless

• Elincia: Estival Princess

  • Special - Blue Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Green Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Yellow Border &amp; Title
  • Special - Blue Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Blue Borderless &amp; Titleless
  • Special - Green Borderless &amp; Title
  • Special - Green Borderless &amp; Titleless

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Nice, thanks moderator for this thread.

Here's my home screen. Clean and flat. The display's too good to cram widgets that I rarely use anyway.

Launcher: Nova

Wallpaper: Zheanoblog

Icons: Polycon

P.S: Check out zheanoblog for awesome flat wallpapers. I have a random G+ collection here.

Here's my go-to wallpaper dump. Or there's always Unsplash.

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (50 Images)

New Additions:

• Linde: Summer Rays

  • Portrait
  • Attack
  • Special

• Camilla: Tropical Beauty

  • Special

• Tiki Y: Beachside Scion

  • Special

• Takumi: Prince at Play

  • Special

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

This theme is a combination of various themes I found on here. It started with /u/erto66's [isometric theme]( /r/androidthemes/comments/55n8ma/isometric/) I also added a lot of /u/TrailBot's [Pastel-Shift](/r/androidthemes/comments/5ne7yb/pastelshift_a_hybrid_theme/),

particularly, the weather and media features, as well as the feature of having a different theme for night and day. The wallpaper I used came with the isometric icons, though I had to edit the colors to make it gel well with the rest of the theme.

This theme requires a good chunk of apps, so open your wallets and get ready!

Nova Launcher - Still the best launcher!

Make sure the dock is completely turned off in Nova. Otherwise the dock icons in the wallpaper won't be clickable. Also make sure infinite scroll is off. I prefer infinite scroll, but couldn't figure out how to enable it and not have the calendar animation go wacky when I go from the last page to the first. I tried putting the calendar on page 2 of 3 but even that caused some weird fast scrolling of the calendar background when going from page 3 to 1. :( The desktop grid is 10x7 with subgrid on. Icon Size is set to 125% No width or height padding on the icons. Scroll effect is wipe (necessary for the calendar animation).

KLWP - Still the best wallpaper!

Kustom Icon Plugin - This lets me use icons inside of KLWP

Isometric Icons - the core of the theme

Lines - Flat Minimalist Icons - Used for the 'dock' icons during the night

Lines Dark - Flat Black Icons - Used for the 'dock' icons during the day

Event Flow - This is the only widget used. It's placed on the second screen, KLWP provides the gray background so that the calendar looks good at any time of day.

This is what the theme looks like at night

The isometric icons on the main page are not individual apps, although they could be. Instead I've got them setup as app groups in NovaLauncher. That way when I click the games icon, I get a list of all the games I've got installed (or added to that group, to be specific) I experimented with having many pages of 9 icons each, but this method turned out to be quicker generally, and less prone to causing issues with KLWP animations. If I missed anything important, it's probably available here

The lack of any google search bar widget that would look good with this theme was a big problem, I modified the one provided by the Pastel-Shift theme and integrated it into the main wallpaper. Clicking the mic does bring up voice search (that was a big hurdle for some reason).

~~I've got the klwp exported. I'll have it posted soon*~~

Here's the KLWP

wallpaper / trees

launcher / nova launcher

icons / flight light

widget / zooper widget (europa-017)

My left screen is productivity, right screen is media. Most used apps are separated at the bottom for easier reach. That D icon is for Discord.

Download a launcher. Nova ([link]) is a popular one. Once you download it, go into settings and then set it as your default launcher. Then go back to the play store and download some icon packs. Not sure which one the OP is using but here is a list of a few that look like it:

[link]

[link]

[link]

[link]

[link]

Once you've downloaded an icon pack you like, go back into Nova settings, click on Look & Feel, then click on Icon Theme, and then you just click on the icon theme you just downloaded, and that's it!

'Nova Launcher'

[link]

Check out Nova Launcher. Delete any apps you don't want/don't use. Disable apps that you can't delete. Hide apps that you can't disable.

Check out /r/androidthemes. Here's my homescreen for example. 90% of the time I don't need to go into my app drawer. The icons are Whicons.

1º Install Nova Launcher! (its free but u need to get Prime for full features)

2º Install TwoPixel! (paid Icon Pack) You can customize each icon, individually

3º Install Zooper! (paid too)

4º Install Neon! (pack with lot of Neon Widgets)

• material dark theme
• nova launcher
• gmail read button app (for the popups when you get a new mail)
• ai keyboard with a nice dark theme like material or ios8, top number buttons and it has a very easy copy/paste/select tool with arrows
• quickpic gallery, it's very fast and you can hide pesky folders like /music/. new version has bloatware though so use this one

You might want to look up Nova Launcher it is pretty simple and does a lot.

Nova launcher 8x4

Naxos Taz Iconpack

Plastexo Wallpaper

Morf widget for zooper

Nova launcher is a good one. [link]

Are you using a non stock launcher? Just assuming since you mentioned double tap of notification bar instead of double tap screen to lock..

I love the double tap to sleep/wake, but not fond of the default launcher myself.. But you can have the best of both!!

There are workarounds to get tap to lock working on non-stock launchers.

Some 3rd party launchers like Nova Launcher & Action Launcher 3 have double tap gestures you can assign to screen lock

Action Launcher 3 has screen-lock as double tap gesture built into the paid version.

Nova Launcher has the option to assign any app to double tap. I was using this with Screen Lock &amp; Off before switching to Action Launcher 3 and it worked flawlessly

Resources:

• KLWP file (v1.2 - fixed broken calendar formula and unlocked the preset)
• Nova Launcher
• OnePlus 6 template by Benjamin Sow
• Material for Kustom (for weather icons)
• Google Sans font

So yeah, I guess that's my entry to the dark themes contest. ~~The preset is locked (so, no exporting)~~(v1.2 is unlocked), but other than that you can tailor it to your needs however you want. There are also a few globals for you to play with, if you will. Oh, and it should work with different aspect ratios just fine :)

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Should you have any issues with the theme, hit me up either here on reddit, or via email. And if all's good, enjoy :D

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New Additions:

• Sumia: Maid of Flowers

  • Special

• Maribelle: Dire Damsel

  • Special

• Olivia: Sky-High Dancer

  • Special

• Libra: Fetching Friar

  • Special

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (Free - what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons (Costs $1)

• Icon Changer (Free - may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Icon Requests?

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). You can also specify the following information so that I make it just how you want it:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Create your own Icons!

• Custom Template and Instructions

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Because OP was lazy

• Nova Launcher
• Wallpaper
• Material Things icon pack
• Huk for KWGT
• Julius One font

With the recent update, Fire Emblem now supports adaptive icons, so I've decided to do the same by modifying my template to support the creation of Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, and Circle formats. I'll be following up with a comment that has more details as well as a link to the new GIMP template that includes instructions on how to make your own icons. My main update posts with the new icon album will now be using the Square icon format.

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (7 Images)

New Additions:

• Helbindi

• Julius

• Lene

• Ishtar

• Ares

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Sorry, no known way for iOS to customize app icons)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Icon Changer

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Icon Changer Instructions:

• Select App

• Press "Change"

• Select "Gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Stretch corners to fit icon

• Press "Crop"

• Press "OK"

• A shortcut to the app with the new icon will be added to your desktop

Information Required for Icon Requests:

When I find time, I try to fulfill icon requests (though you can also make icons yourself using my template). To make sure I get the icon just how you want it, please provide the following information when requesting a custom icon:

• Specific Hero Art Pose (Portrait, Attack, Special, Injured) or Link to Specific Art (fanart will require approval from owner)

• Icon Format (Square, Rounded Square, Squircle, Circle, or Original)

• Popped Style or Solid Style

• Border Color

• Background Color or Link to Specific Background (fanart will require approval from owner)

• If not all information is provided, I'll use the default for what is missing: Special Art, Square Format, Popped Style, and Border/Background colors similar to the art

Previous Albums:

V2 Album Imgur Link (Original Border)

V2 Album Imgur Zip Download (339 Images)

V1 Album Imgur Link (No Border)

V1 Album Imgur Zip Download (318 Images)

Why not just use Nova Launcher?

I'm a fan of simple layouts too. Pic

EDIT: More info

• Launcher: Nova Launcher Prime
• Icon pack: Ango
• Clock+weather widget: Today Weather
• Wallpaper: see here

welcome to team pixel! fantastic phone!

try out Nova Launcher. It's an alternate launcher (think home screen) that you can further customize than the default Google one. You can change the grid spacing of your icons so that you can have a better layout. Plus it allows you to install and run icon packs from the Google Play store. Here's my favorite icon pack at the moment. And what my homescreen looks like currently IMGUR. I just love the ability to customize the look of your phone with Android compared to iOS.

Launcher: [link]

1st widget: [link]

The music widget I made myself.

Icon pack: [link]

Wallpaper: [link]

Launcher: Nova Launcher
Icon pack: Kecil
Widgets: OC, made in KWGT (music widget available here)
Wallpaper: OP5T wallpaper by Hampus Olsson

My setup. Nothing fancy or flashy, just going for my own Pixel-esque look.

Apps used:

Nova Launcher with the dock and status bar hidden

Another Widget to replicate the Pixel's "At a Glance" widget

HTC U11+ wallpaper

O8 icons

Official Pixel Launcher (Oreo) .apk file here

If you're not sure how to install .apk files, you can use Nova Launcher on the Play Store here

Google Pixel icon pack here

[link] It lets you customize your phone easily.

Launcher: Nova.

Rest is KLWP.

Nova Launcher ( coz it allows widget in dock)

Custom KWGT Widgets
Bottom Widget
Weekday

Min Icon Pack

Wallpaper

Edit - Added link to Apps.

TL;DR: Get the stuff I used at the very bottom.

I've never shared my home screens here until today. However, up until today, I had a very very basic layout: four folders at the bottom of the screen with nothing else. I thought it was time for a change.

Probably unlike most of the functional themes here, I did not use KLWP to design this. That was probably to my own disadvantage though because it took about 12 hours from start to finish, and I went through a lot of iterations to get to this point.

The idea behind this setup was to have something simple yet functional, and with my Nexus 6P, it needed to be within a finger's reach. So while I tried having the G bar at the top of the screen for balance, it just didn't work out that way, so while the home screen is more bottom heavy than it should be, it still works out pretty well.

Another goal for the home screen was to be able to accommodate busy or unconventional wallpapers while still making sure elements were visible and legible. This particular wallpaper is one of the busiest I have, which is what I used while designing my home screen.

You'll also notice some icons have labels with a • or ° symbol. These are minimal yet different enough that I can quickly glance to determine if the icon can be swiped to reveal relevant apps (•) or if it has a widget window (°) similar to Action Launcher 3's shutter feature.

So, here's a rundown of what I used and where it's used.

Launcher: Nova Launcher with Prime ([link])

Wallpaper: Backdrops Pro ("Comic Strip") ([link])

"G Bar" icons: Whicons ([link])

"G Bar" background: Zooper Widget Pro ([link])

Square folder icons: Quada ([link])

Widgets: Popup Widget 3 ([link])

Double Tap menu and Relevant Apps popups: Multicon widget ([link])

Calendar widget: Calendar Widget - Month ([link])

Shazam widget: Shazam Encore ([link])

To-Do widget: Microsoft To-Do ([link])

Navigation bar: [Substratum] Navigate Theme ([link])

Home Screens:

[link]

Recently, I got the idea of making a sort of retro 80s theme and found a wallpaper of a server room with that look for the home screens and a simple gradient for the lock screen. Here they are.

I use two home screens, the first for looks, and the second for efficiency with folders (without using the app drawer).

Launcher: Nova Launcher

Icon Packs (in order of most often used): CandyCons, Polycon, Cornie Icons, Ango, Glim, etc

Clock: Custom widget modified from one in Ocea Zooper

Roman bust: Google Images + Zooper bitmap option

Edit: I can link to anything else I missed (specific icon, pictures for the bust widget, zip file for the clock) when I'm off from school.

Made with Nova Launcher

Icons: Rad Pack Pro

Wallpaper: Rad Pack wallpaper

Widgets: Zooper Widget Pro with the Fox add-on, modified by me

Nova Launcher

Zopper Widget Pro

Rad Pack Free (Icons)

Retro Zooper Skins

Wallpaper

Nova Launcher

There aren't any "stock" android roms or AOSP roms available because of:

1) Limited documentation of Exynos processor

2) Locked bootloaders on Snapdragon devices

What you can get is a debloated rom such as superman

and install Nova launcher and Goodlock

Launcher : &quot;Nova Launcher&quot;

Icon pack : &quot;Minimalist UI&quot;

Clock : &quot;Dash Clock&quot;

Weather forecast : &quot;Eyes in the sky forecast widget&quot;

Wallpaper : &quot;CandyCons&quot;, an icon pack that offers about 20 beautiful backgrounds with the same style. I don't use their icons, but they're pretty cool too!

• The Home button opens the app drawer.
• Double tap opens Google Now.
• A few icons can be swiped up to open alternate applications (for example if I swipe the phone icon, it opens skype but just pressing it opens the android's phone).
• Swipe up anywhere else brings up my Google Keep's notes.

First of all I installed this roms which removed a lot of Samsung boats Secondly, I installed Nova launcher and bought the Nova prime because I like to customize the app icons size & gestures which really helped me a lot.

Thirdly، Omni swipe this app will give a nice swipe menu with your favorite apps, contacts, and toolbox. One of the best app that help me to manage my clipboard is clip stack long press home button will show you pop-up window with your clipboard history and your favorite. Finally, Dumpster it's like recycle bin if you use Windows pc, whatever you delete you'll fine it there (you can manage it to remove the items after x time) it's really helpful and you'll like it.

Wallpaper - [link]
Launcher - Nova
Wallpaper made with Tapet - Tapet
Icons - Min
Time/Day - Min for Zooper Pro
Toggles - Power Toggles

Link for Zooper Pro - Zooper Pro

I have Power Toggles set up to where the 'Active' setting is the blue color and the 'inactive' is the pink. The battery also changes depending on the charge, 75% and up is blue, 75-16% is pink, and 15-0% is black.

EDIT: Totally forgot to mention the unseen tweaks. I have gestures enabled through Nova Launcher for a few apps just for ease of use. Double-tap opens the app drawer, one finger swipe up opens Spotify, and two finger swipe down opens Chrome.

EDIT 2: Screen grab of gestures as requested. [link]

Thanks for looking!

Nova Launcher.

Okay so first thing's first, you'll need to download a custom launcher, personally I use Nova because it's easy with a small learning curve and you can do a lot with it.

Then, you're gonna want icons, and there are loads of them, for anybody's taste The last main thing you'll want is widgets. You can download them to use with UCCW or, you can make your own using Zooper.

It's all about just doing whatever you wanna do. /r/Androidthemes is awesome for stuff like this.

Wow, the designer for Polycon really knows their stuff! I love my own icon pack more, though. I can't find anything else that's suited for my taste.

My homescreen: [link]

• Nova Launcher
• Lumos Icon Pack I use a mix of dominant Lumos and stock Android icons. I largely prefer some icons to be stock.
• Minarch for Zooper Widget I modified this template to show the sunrise/sunset/city
• Zooper Widget Pro There is a free version of Zooper Widget

So this theme is made with a Galaxy S5 running Nova Launcher. To achieve this look exactly you are going to need the following apps :

1. UCCW
2. ZPlayBar
3. DashClock Widget
4. DashClock Battery Extension
5. Tiny Flashlight
6. DashClock Flash Light
7. Minimal UI Icon Pack

Here's how to set up the widgets.

1. Go to Desktop and set the Desktop grid to 10 x 8 and allow Subgrid Positioning.
2. Set the padding for height and width to none.
3. Turn off Persistent search bar.
4. Go to dock and disable the dock.
5. Go to look and feel and apply the icon theme you just downloaded or any other icon theme you might want. The icon theme only applies to the icons on the upper right.
6. Add a widget and add a 4x1 widget. You should have room to place 4 on each side like I have.
7. Configure your UCCW widgets to open the apps you want.
8. Add the dash clock widget and any apps you want.

Z2 here, but here's some apps I recommend you get:

Nova Launcher: [link] - IMO one of the best launchers, lots of options. I personally like it better than the stock Sony one.

Bluelight Filter: [link] - Usefully if you use your phone during the dark. Gives you the ability to reduce brightness even more than normally.

Lazy Swipe: [link] - Convenient access to apps, settings, and notifications with a single swipe.

Google Opinion Rewards: [link] - Earn a bit of Google Play credit by answering simple surveys by Google.

Amber Weather & Clock Widget: [link] - Nice looking and useful widget for looking at the weather and time.

Hope you like them, and welcome to the master race!

Current Homescreen

• Launcher: Nova
• Icons: VIT
• Wallpaper: Minima Pro app, "Monument" theme. The shapes move around in a 3D-esque fashion when you tilt the phone. I really like the app, great for Material Design like wallpapers. There's piles of themes, more keep getting added and you can create your own or get them from others. There is a free version with less choices for themes and stuff.
• Navigation Buttons: Hidden with GravityBox, which requires Xposed, which requires root. Also used this to permanently be in expanded desktop mode (hides status bar) and add PIE controls.

About a month ago. Same as above, except:

• Wallpaper: Minima Pro again, "Time" theme.
• Clock: Stock android clock.
• Icons: Bleach.

Samsung Galaxy Avant, think of it like a Galaxy S3, but shitty. The reason it looks nice is because I downloaded Nova Launcher and used Mineral Icon Pack.

Widgets include:

Month Calendar Widget

Shuttle Music Player

UCCW with Circle Skin

Relatively simple but I enjoy it.

Left Center Right

Launcher: Nova Launcher

Icon Pack: Big White Icons

Wallpaper:Tapet

Widgets: Zooper Widget Pro and Today Calendar Widgets

That's no Moon

Launcher: Nova Launcher

Icon Pack: Gel

Wallpaper: link

Widgets: Zooper Pro (with a custom widget I made)

Nexus 5

Main screen

Second screen &amp; second dock

Launcher: Nova

Icon Pack: Rondo

Wallpaper: Wallpaper

Widgets:
Dashclock with Battery Extension and Facebook Extension (not shown) to give notifications from Tinfoil for Facebook

Pittsburgh Penguins

Google News and Weather

V3 Album Imgur Link (Only Desktop Mode gives Transparencies)

V3 Album Imgur Zip Download (39 Images)

New Additions:

• Cordelia (Knight Paradise)

• Noire (Shade Seeker)

• Innes (Flawless Form)

• Tana (Noble and Nimble)

Icon Changing Apps for Android: (Link to post by keijiKun_ for possible way to customize app icons on iOS)

• Nova Launcher (what I use on my S7)

• Adapticons

• Icon Changer (may not work properly anymore or adds logo to icon)

Nova Launcher Instructions:

• Long press the app icon in the menu or on the desktop (each can have separate icons)

• Press "Edit"

• Tap the icon

• Select "Gallery apps"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

Adapticons Instructions:

• Select "FE Heroes" App from the list

• Scroll down to "Icon Settings" and tap on the icon

• Select "Import Icon"

• Tap "Select icon from gallery"

• Navigate to the new icon you want from your phone

• Tap "Select Icon"

• Change size to 46%

• Scroll down to "Shape Settings" and tap on the background color

• Tap "Select solid color"

• Tap "Advanced Mode"

• Drag the Opacity bar all the way to the left to make it invisible

• Tap "Select Color"

• Hit the disk icon in the top right to save

• Choose "Add icon to home screen" and it will appear on the desktop