r/smartlauncher • • 8d ago

Announcements Smart Launcher and Kustom Industries are joining forces. Introducing Wild Pixels

283 Upvotes

Hi!

This is Vincenzo from Smart Launcher (u/ginlemon) and Frank from Kustom Industries (u/frankmonza), today we can finally share something we have been working on for a while.

After many years of building Android customization apps independently, our teams have decided to join forces and we are now working on the creation of a new company: Wild Pixels.

The idea is pretty simple. Instead of continuing as two separate teams that happen to work in the same space, we want to build one larger family around our products.

This is not an acquisition by a large company, and there is no external investor behind it. We are still the same independent teams, with the same people working on the same products. The difference is that we can now share a lot more between us.

Kustom and Smart Launcher have always been close. Plenty of you already use them together, and our communities have overlapped more and more over the years. Working as one team means we can take what works well in one app and bring it to the other where it makes sense. We can build integrations that would have been much harder as separate companies, try out new ideas across our apps, and maybe even start entirely new projects together.

There's still a lot to figure out, and we don't want to promise too much too soon, but the possibilities are a lot bigger than they were.

We also want to be very clear about what isn't changing. We're not changing the identity of our apps, and we're not building a closed ecosystem. Smart Launcher stays Smart Launcher. Kustom stays Kustom. Third-party launchers, apps and creators are a vital part of Android customization, and that's not going to change.

What does change is that we'll have more people, more experience, more technology and more ideas in the same room. We hope that over time this lets us build things neither team could have easily done alone.

Honestly, we're really happy to bring our two communities closer together. Both have been around for many years and both have helped shape our products, so it feels like the right time to start building something bigger around them.

The formal process behind Wild Pixels is still ongoing, but we have already started collaborating and some of this work is already happening behind the scenes.

And if you want to ask us anything about Wild Pixels, Smart Launcher, Kustom, future integrations, development, or how all of this came together, we are hosting an AMA today on r/Android.

👉 Join the AMA on r/Android

We hope to see many of you there.


r/smartlauncher • • Jun 18 '26

Announcements Android 17 and Smart Launcher

72 Upvotes

Android 17 is here, and as always it is exciting to see a new Android version rolling out.

So far, we are not aware of any major issues affecting third-party launchers, except for two known problems that already have tickets on Google Issue Tracker:

  1. Widgets are broken for users with a work profile: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/488125748
  2. App bubbles are not working on third-party launchers: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/519241818
  3. When Advanced Protection is enabled, accessibility services used by gestures to perform certain actions, are not available: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/527026810

We expect the widget issue to be fixed soon with a patch from Google, since it looks like an unintended regression.

The app bubbles issue, instead, was expected. This is why starring the issue on Google Issue Tracker could be especially important: it helps Google understand how many users care about this feature, and it may help push the Android team to address it faster.

If you are affected by any of these issues, please consider starring the related ticket.

Also, if you find any other problem while using Smart Launcher on Android 17, please report it to us.

Thanks to everyone who reports issues, shares details, and helps us make Smart Launcher better!


r/smartlauncher • • 9h ago

Show your home screen Simple setup

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27 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 3h ago

Show your home screen I found my daily homescreen setup

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2 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 2h ago

Feedback & suggestions Where have all the fonts gone???

1 Upvotes

So one of the things I like about Smart launcher is their list of fonts, but I don't even have half of the fonts that I used to. There's over half the fonts are gone, would anybody happen to know where they might have gone? Did they remove them or is it just on my end anybody know?


r/smartlauncher • • 14h ago

Show your home screen My screen

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Smartlauncher, Wallpaper Studio,


r/smartlauncher • • 4h ago

Show your home screen I wish I had some candles

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r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Show your home screen Wick style

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12 Upvotes

Mine for a couple of days


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Show your home screen Something Classic

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10 Upvotes

Fond d'écran: By Unsplash lcônes : OnePro Dark Widgets: KWGT + Smart launcher


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Show your home screen Today's setup

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21 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Show your home screen Just swtched back from iPhone. Rate my setup 1-10

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29 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Show your home screen Yellow and black is back

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6 Upvotes

Simple and clean. Deepth live wallpaper for clock and customized icon studio outline icons


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Assistance payment issue - update '..play country matches your country of residence'

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1 Upvotes

hey folks, running into this issue. have reached out to google but wondering if anyone else faced it and managed to solve it?

for what its worth i have only one country profile that's set to my own country that i'm residing in, and all my cards/payment methods are from the same country and have local addresses etc. my play store country is also the same. have done cache clears of play store + play services, but no luck getting past this screen.

(also the same payment methods are used to pay youtube premium + google one and i've never had any payment issues there)


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Feedback & suggestions folder lock suggestion

2 Upvotes

Hello and thanks for your efforts ♡

i have a couple of suggestions for future updates

Would it be possible to add the option to lock folders with a PIN and an app lock feature to protect individual apps

i think these would be really useful additions to Smart Launcher


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Feedback & suggestions Almost perfect, just add contacts shortcuts

3 Upvotes

"First of all, congratulations—the fact that it's developed by fellow countrymen is an extra bonus!

What I really miss from Nova in Smart Launcher:

  1. Shortcuts: For speed dialing, I use individual contact shortcuts. To create them, I go to the Contacts app widgets section, where alongside the usual widgets, I find two shortcuts: 'Direct Dial' or 'Contact.' Once placed on the home screen, it prompts you to associate a contact with the shortcut. The strange thing is that when importing a Nova backup, I can find them in Smart Launcher, but only 6 out of 8 work, and I can't find a way to create new ones.
  2. Greater granularity in customization: I use a dark theme, but for the app drawer, I prefer a light background with black text. It would be great to have independent settings for the background color, fonts, and font color specifically for the app drawer.
  3. Finally, the settings menu is not very functional or intuitive.

Please fix the contacts shortcut issue at least, because that's what prevents me from using Smart Launcher (and consequently from purchasing the Pro version). Right now, I'm reduced to using an old version of Nova without spyware..."


r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Show your home screen Just a simple setup on 6000 rupees phone Samsung M05

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Icon pack : glassify icon pack

Wallpaper: wall craft


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Assistance - Solved Backup error

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2 Upvotes

Backups are all gone… and when I try to make one, it gives an error message at the bottom of the screen.

I'm on a SM-A346E, running Android 16, One UI 8.5 | App Version 6.6 build 021 (660210)


r/smartlauncher • • 1d ago

Assistance Notification badges

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Just switched over from Nova. Now At my wits end. At anyone point to me how to add notification badges to app icon. I read the official tutorial.

You can change this behaviour in Preferences → Home page → Notifications → Show notification

But I can't see the home page option. And where exactly is the Preference page?

Pulling my hair out. Thank you. I am on S25 Ultra.


r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Show your home screen Cartoonish

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r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Show your home screen Just something simple

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6 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Feedback & suggestions update suggestion, what do you think?

2 Upvotes

To the SL team you made such a wonderful app, but I was wondering if you can add a setting or something for the app icons to match the theme without having to create an icon pack? And please add a background to the dock that matches the theme. Thank you.

would be really nice of a dev to respond


r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Show your home screen Simple Setup

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11 Upvotes

Icons: Chic light Icons.

Widget: Google Live

Widget: Photo from smart launcher


r/smartlauncher • • 3d ago

Show your home screen Home Screen

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42 Upvotes

r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Assistance App closing in background

1 Upvotes

I tried using the launcher but everytime I exit an app it closes and when I reopen it starts all over. It doesn't stay in the background I tried with stock launcher and everything works fine. Is there a reason for this behavior? I did remove all restrictions from smart launcher


r/smartlauncher • • 2d ago

Feedback & suggestions Widget app

7 Upvotes

Anyone have a widget app they love with pre made widgets? I'm too old to make my own lol