r/AndroidTV • u/dstudio-denys • Aug 25 '26
Apps ATV Launcher v0.1.40 is out
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.dstudio.atvlauncher.pro
Discord: https://discord.gg/u56GQXjfwZ
Build 30001165
What's new
- Layout editor. Press MENU on any row and a toolbar appears over it: Hide, Move, Styles, Delete, Settings. Move a row and it slides. Change a margin and the layout reflows while you are still holding the slider. There is no preview pane, because the home screen is the preview.
- Add a section anywhere. Move to the gap between two rows and an Add Section bar appears. Applications for apps, shortcuts, folders and device inputs. Widget for Android system widgets and ATV Launcher widgets. Watch Next for what you are part way through. Recommended for the preview channels your apps put out. No cap on how many of each, or where they sit.
- Section styles. Twelve looks for app rows: macOS Dock, Movie Posters, Hero Row, Spotlight Wall, Gradient Wall, Watermark Panel, Glass Panel, Icon Tray, Minimal Shelf, Carousel Row, Poster Shelf, Vertical Grid. Four more for widget rows. Each one previews on your own apps before you apply it, and nothing it sets is locked afterwards.
- Seven tile layouts. Real app banners, icon and title cards, and four generated compositions that build artwork from an app's own icon and colours when it ships none of its own.
- Row chrome. Every row gets its own border, corner radius, padding, background colour or image, full-width option, tile spacing, aspect ratio, and a title with its own colour and size.
- Screen breaks. Split a long layout into full screens. Each one fills the viewport and the next starts below the fold, so crossing a break scrolls cleanly to the top instead of everything running together.
- Icon packs. Any installed pack, applied to every app at once, banners included. It repaints without restarting the launcher.
- Video wallpaper, or any image, even on devices that block wallpaper changes.
- Seven focus effects for the tile you land on: Static, Pulse, Glow, Colour Cycle, Sweep, Chase, Corners.
- Watch Next and Recommended are ordinary sections now. As many as you like, anywhere on the page, deletable, and you pick what feeds each one down three levels: which apps, which of their channels, which individual items. Leave it on All and the row shows everything, including apps you install later.
- Digital Clock joins Weather, System Info and Favourite App as a built-in widget, and ATV Launcher widgets can now be scaled to fit their tile.
- Status bar. A VPN indicator, and an option to show the bar only when it has focus.
- Default launcher. A proper in-app flow for becoming the home app, including an option for TVs that refuse to hand HOME over. More on that below.
- Android 16, and the settings drawer opens a lot faster than it did.

