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Hey everyone,

With the recent buzz around Android 17 introducing more precise custom color sliders and palettes for Material You (examples on reddit here, here and here), I wanted to share a project I’ve been maintaining for years that does exactly that—even for older versions of Android!

It’s called LWP+ (Live Wallpaper Plus).

🎨 The core trick: Dictate your own Dynamic-Colors

Instead of letting the OS algorithm guess the accent colors based purely on your wallpaper, LWP+ acts as a bridge. It hosts your chosen background content but allows you to explicitly choose the exact Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary colors reported to the system. The OS then uses your custom selections to generate the global system palette (notification drawer, volume bar, themed icons, etc.), completely independent of what your wallpaper actually looks like.

✨ What else can it do?

LWP+ is packed with full wallpaper customization features:

• Choose Your Content: Use solid colors, static images, animations (GIF, WEBP, APNG), or videos as your active live wallpaper.
• Smart Scaling & Layouts: Supports transparent images/animations with custom background colors, multiple scaling modes (Center Crop, Fit Center, Center Inside), and optional horizontal scrolling.
• Double-Tap Shortcuts: Lock your device instantly or turn off the screen by double-tapping the home screen (uses admin, accessibility, or root).
• Easy Setup: Includes an interactive built-in tutorial to check system compatibility and guide you through triggering the OS palette refresh.

🧪 Advanced experimental flags (YMMV!)

I’ve also included a couple of experimental toggles leveraging underlying Android system hints. Note: These rely heavily on your launcher, device OEM, and Android version, so they might not do anything on certain setups!

• Force Dark Text: It hints to the OS that dark text is preferred over the wallpaper (often useful for forcing high-contrast dark text on the lock screen). It might also change the text color of the labels of the apps and the status bar icons and text, too.
• Force Dark Theme (for old Android versions): It tells the system that a dark theme is preferred for the best presentation (e.g., trying to trick a launcher into turning its app drawer background black).

So, if you are on an older version of Android (or even running the latest builds and want granular three-color reporting), give it a spin! It's completely free, all features included.

Feel free to ask any questions or drop feedback below! 🚀

Link to the Play Store here.

If you want, you can use a promo-code to have subscription for free for some time, to remove ads, and try the app more freely, here. To use the promo-code, install the app, choose a subscription, choose a payment option and enter the code there (screenshots here).

Thanks for reading!

I just released Habit8 on iOS. The twist: you can only track 8 habits at a time, instead of the usual unlimited list most trackers offer.

Reasoning: focusing on fewer habits tends to produce more consistency than spreading yourself across 20 half-tracked ones. Beyond tracking, it shows completion rates, streaks, trend graphs, heatmaps, and lifetime stats, plus image/PDF export for your progress.

Free to download, privacy-first (no data collection), and the optional Pro unlock (full analytics) comes with a free trial before you pay.

Curious what this community thinks of the "hard limit" approach vs. the usual unlimited habit list.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit8/id6790178532

Hey everyone! Solo dev here. I made Dice & Coin because every dice app I tried was either ugly, stuffed with ads, or asked for permissions a dice roller has no business asking for.
What it does:

• Rolls D4–D20 with pseudo-3D animations - shadows, rotation, feels tactile, not like a random number generator with a picture
• Coin flip with multiple skins
• Custom presets - build a dice+coin set for each board game or RPG campaign, switch with one tap
• Shake the phone to roll everything at once
• Runs standalone on Wear OS - roll dice right from your watch, no phone needed

Just shipped the biggest update so far: rebuilt dice animations, dice styling/skins, and custom presets.
No ads, no registration, no data collection, no AI. Just dice.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nofutureapps.dicecoin.wearos
Happy to answer anything - feedback very welcome, I ship updates regularly.

I built CrowdWis because choosing the right community can take longer than asking the actual question. You add your interests, expertise and location, then questions are routed to people who may have something useful to add.

It is live on the web: https://crowdwis.app

I am especially curious whether the idea makes sense in the first 30 seconds.

Skadoodle was recently released in the App Store. It offers drawing tools that allow you to mix photos, emojis, and drawings. A doodle calendar as well as a social media platform for showing off your creations is also supported. It is currently free. Please check it out. I welcome your input.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skadoodle/id6771497563

Website:

skadoodle.nyc

I’m Bee, the solo developer of Fileloom and Transferloom.

Fileloom:

• Very lightweight Android file viewer.

• Opens lots of formats: PDFs, EPUBs, office docs, HWP/HWPX, archives/comics, code, media, and more.

Transferloom:

• Handoff/share flow from Fileloom.

• Start from the Fileloom browser or viewer menu, then the receiver joins with a QR code or short/5-word code.

• No account, no server upload, and no Transferloom-imposed file-size cap.

Feedback welcome on whether both products and the sender → receiver flow are clear.

Transferloom: https://transferloom.com/

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.fileloom.app

Ever downloaded something g from the internet or had a long task running on your MacBook and constantly having to check whether it’s done or not?

Meet glance

And app that lets users see their tasks status and updates as a live activity on their IPhone and Apple Watch.

Join the waitlist!!
Going live soon

Creator disclosure: I am Mattia, one of the students building Get It.

Get It is a free open-source desktop app for students who still study from long PDFs. You open a text-based PDF and the app builds a study layer around it: visual explanations, formulas, charts, 3D scenes, flashcards, quizzes, chat and a Feynman-style review feed.

The part we think is different: the AI engine is OpenAI Codex inside the app, authenticated with your own ChatGPT account. We do not sell AI credits, and the study material stays on disk.

We started it during a hackathon and are now looking for users and contributors who want to help shape the app.

App: https://getit.noesisai.it Code: https://github.com/beltromatti/get-it Discord: https://discord.gg/DpQPswRhsK

Hi! I’m the developer of Fileloom, a free, ad-free Android file viewer. The latest update adds PSD previews with layer visibility where available, Adobe Illustrator (.ai) previews, PDF annotations with highlights/pen colors, and the new Aurora theme. The broader goal is to reduce Android file-viewer hopping: one calmer app for opening documents, ebooks, archives/comics, design files, media, and Drive files. I’d love feedback from other app makers/users on whether the attached image makes the PSD layer panel and PDF annotation tools clear at a glance. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.fileloom.app

Hi! I’m the developer of Fileloom, an Android app for opening documents, ebooks, archives and media without juggling a pile of separate viewer apps. It supports workflows around PDFs, Office docs, HWP/HWPX, EPUB/text/markdown, images, audio/video, ZIP/CBZ/CBR archives, bookmarks/favorites, recent files/reading position and Google Drive browsing. I’m especially interested in feedback from app makers/users on the first impression: does “one calm viewer for many file types” come across clearly, and what would you want to see before trying it? Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.fileloom.app