Android 7 Nougat / 8 Oreo / 9 Pie: Home screens / Launchers

[AnotherElk]

(Continuing from the old Android 4 + 5 and Android 6 topics, with Android 7 currently still to come from Fairphone and Android 8 already there in the form of LineageOS)

• LineageOS 15.1 for microG
• Settings - System - Status bar - System icons - Battery - Always show percentage
• Settings - System - Status bar - Network traffic monitor
• stock clock Widget with makeshift Yahoo weather provider for Oreo
• Launcher: Lawnchair (F-Droid / Play Store),
  mainly because compared to Trebuchet (the LineageOS stock launcher) it is more customizable

I really like those notification dots (according to this Trebuchet should have them, too).

[Roboe]

• Lineage OS 14.1 + microG mod + privileged F-Droid
  • Settings → Status bar → Clock position: Centre
  • Settings → Status bar → Battery status style: Text
• KISS launcher
  • KISS filosophy
  • Shown list is launch history, read it ↑ from bottom to top
  • KISS Settings → User interface → Theme interface → Dark semi-transparent theme
• Wallpaper features Rain (2010) by Nazar Bilyk in Ucraine.

[Loesje]

LineageOS 15.1 for microG
Stock clock widget including calendar
Launcher: Nova Launcher

• Very customizable
• Includes notification ‘dots’ AnotherElk mentioned
• Has apps in the app list separated alphabetically, which I like very much

Icon set: Whicons
Wallpaper: detail of Dutch traditional clothes, ‘Staphorster stipwerk’

[Stefan]

Can we bring notification dots to KISS?

[JeroenH]

EDIT: Oops, I said Sesame; I meant TeslaUnread.

TestlaUnread can show notification badges in Nova Launcher. Shows number of notifications or informative icons in e.g. WhatsApp. Both work in Oreo but paid apps. Haven’t compared it with the one previously mentioned though.

EDIT: Oh thank you for mentioning Whicons. I’ve been searching for such a thing for ages, and only found incomplete versions of such icon themes.

[Roboe]

Sure, although I will disable it. I don’t need more attention-stealing features.

[Roboe]

• Lineage OS 15.1 + privileged F-Droid, running on my second-phone, multiple-times manually-serviced Nexus 4.
  • #los:settings → System → Status bar → Clock position: Centre
  • #los:settings → System → Status bar → System icons → Battery: Always show percentage
  • #los:settings → System → Buttons → Buttons and layout → Layout: Compact
• KISS launcher
  • KISS filosophy
  • KISS Settings → User experience → Minimalistic UI: on
  • KISS Settings → User interface → Theme interface: Dark semi-transparent theme
  • KISS Settings → User interface → Rounded list corners: on
  • KISS Settings → User interface → Rounded bar corners: on
• Widget: Fairphone Clock Widget, resurrected by the #wearefairphone community
• Wallpaper: daily changing art wallpaper thanks to the awesome Muzei - Live Wallpaper
  • Today featuring Seated Man (1914) by Roger de la Fresnaye.

[deltamind]

This looks beautiful FIRE!!

[Drezil]

Since Android 4(?) i fell in love with the Smart-Launcher. Even paid for the pro-version.

Best thing: Simple. One drawer with categories (where apps get sorted automatically based on their tags; manual movement is easily possible) for all apps, Unified search (apps, contact, messages, web, …), some “widget-only”-pages.

Drawer (swipe left):

Home:

Widgets (swipe right):

(the reddish ones are due to Red Moon being active)

Widgets are pretty minimal (Öffi for public transport, Authy for 2-factor-auth, WarnWetter for Weather - things you need occasionally but don’t want to search for for ages )

[Roboe]

(where apps get sorted automatically based on their tags; manual movement is easily possible)

Note that this is done in a remote server. The launcher gets your list of apps and then it sends it to a computer you don’t necessarily trust. I won’t recommend it for privacy concerns (it can’t be disabled, unless you take out the internet permission from the launcher… which is a good practice, anyway).

At least that was how it worked while I used it years ago for a long time. I don’t think anything has changed.

[Drezil]

1.4 Each time you attempt to interact with Smart Launcher, such as when you request automatic sorting for an app or the list of available themes, you will send and receive data for which your Network will charge at your usual data rates.

You are indeed correct…

[paulakreuzer]

My lockscreen and homescreen:

• lineage OS with standard trebuchet launcher
• “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.” lockscreen message
• battery live background “image” indicating the battery level in fairphone blue
• simple notes widget for quick note taking directly on the homescreen with example shopping list
• f-droid icon provided by frost
• most icons in the statusbar hidden via lineage OS settings. what you can see is: battery charge limit, clock, root, vpn (orbot) & battery level.
• long press on the home button takes me to the kiss launcher to quickly search for contacts, apps, websites, fairphone forum topics & tags
• only bonafide FLOSS apps from F-Droid with Guardian Project repo enabled (only 3 of which have anti-features) + 2 apps directly from their projects’ websites: BOINC, MusicBrainz

[Roboe]

“If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.” lockscreen message

I’m copying this right now, what a wonderful idea!

[AnotherElk]

I’ll reopen this topic because LineageOS on the Fairphone 2 is based on Android 9 Pie now, and there’s always room for more launcher recommendations …

• LineageOS 16.0 for microG
• Settings - System - Status bar - Battery status style - Icon portrait
• Settings - System - Status bar - Battery percentage - Next to the icon
• Settings - System - Status bar - Network traffic monitor
• stock clock Widget
• Yorecast weather Widget (I scrambled the location, it’s not a feature of the Widget)
• Launcher: Trebuchet (stock launcher of LineageOS, I finally made my peace with it to further simplify my installation, here’s a port for any device with Android >= 5)

[nohwann]

• LineageOS 16.0 with microG . thanks to @chrmhoffmann!

Home page

• Statusbar icons: Tasker, DS Cloud
• Launcher: Nova
• Icons: EP - Eagle Plus Icon Pack
• Widget-1: Power toggles
• Widget-2: Yorecast weather
• Widget-3: Simple Calendar Widget
• Apps icons (in order): Phone, Signal, K-9 Mail, Appsdrawer, Riot, DB Navigator

2nd Page

• Widget: DB Navigator (Home ->|<- Work)

• Apps icons (in order): Fennec, Twidere, Boxtogo (Because of Callthrough), MobileVoip, Open Camera, Simple Gallery Pro, Shopping List, SMS, VPNcilla (Specially for Fritz!box router), andOTP

• Playstore apps downloaded via Yalpstore

[rmf]

FP2, FPOpen 19.11.2. Lightning Launcher with KWGT widgets.

[AnotherElk]

‘Post your home screen’ threads were quite popular back when I was hanging out at the XDA forums, so maybe they’ll be popular here too.

I moved your post here to shamelessly add to the popularity of an existing one .

For more please have a look at the topics for older OS versions linked to in the first post.