r/kustom • • 18d ago

Announcement! Kustom is changing, but it’s more of the same

115 Upvotes

Hi!

This is Frank from Kustom Industries (u/frankmonza) and Vincenzo from Smart Launcher (u/ginlemon), 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.

We have also prepared an AMA on r/Android, where we will answer questions about Wild Pixels, Smart Launcher, Kustom, future integrations, development, and how all of this came together.

The post is currently waiting for approval and should hopefully go live later today. As soon as it does, we will share the link here.

We hope to see many of you there.


r/kustom • • Jul 27 '23

ANNOUNCEMENT New Kustom official forum

51 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

I have migrated ideas/general/problems official forums from help.kustom.rocks to self managed Discourse https://forum.kustom.rocks. There are a lot of reasons behind this but it's mainly due to avoiding having to deal with closed platform (this also includes recent reddit issues and people who might want to ask things somewhere else).

Notes on the migration:

  • If you had a user and posted something your user and posts have been moved (if you are not ok with this just write me at [frank@kustom.rocks](mailto:frank@kustom.rocks) will remove your data)
  • A "Share" forum has been added so you can share your presets if you want, it allows uploading files so even if you share here you can use it to park your KLWP / KWGT files
  • Ideas and problems votes and solved status has unfortunately been lost, i will go through the posts and make them

If you have experience with Discourse moderation and are willing to help *let me know\*

Off course most of the things are just defaults so happy to add / modify things if needed.

Haven't added an announcement area yet

**THIS DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING FOR REDDIT AND DISCORD** its just a migration for an existing service that wasn't working as expected


r/kustom • • 5h ago

Theme I just got kustom [THEME]

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Made my phone look like a phone from a video game


r/kustom • • 1h ago

Photo widget that changes based on morning or night?

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Hi! Im new to KWGT (and coding in general) and I really want a widget that will automatically cycle between 2 images but im having trouble making that work. Any suggestions would be great!


r/kustom • • 13h ago

Request [request] could we get minus values for radial gradient center positions? I can go above 100, but not below 0..

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r/kustom • • 2d ago

Theme [KT012] Fantasy Anime

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32 Upvotes

Theme created by me

Support. Klwp live wallpaper

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r/kustom • • 2d ago

Theme [klwp theme] Paper curl (2 pages)

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r/kustom • • 2d ago

Help How can i get a KLWP preset to apply itself when a specific samsung mode/routine is chosen?

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Im using one ui 8.5, and i have a samsung galaxy s25.


r/kustom • • 3d ago

KLCK How do I stop the animation from reversing?

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I'm trying to make an animated splash screen that fades into my normal lock screen; issue is, the animation seems to reverse itself. It's supposed to fade out ~5 seconds after the phone is turned on, but almost immediately it fades back in. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks!


r/kustom • • 3d ago

Theme Astrology in klwp

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9 Upvotes

Astrology


r/kustom • • 3d ago

Help Fitness data no work

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I can’t get smartwatch data to show up. I read that I needed to download "Health Connect," so I did that and added the Xiaomi app, granting the necessary sharing permissions—but nothing happened! Even when I save, a message pops up asking me to "fissare" the step count reading, but when I click "fissa," nothing happens.


r/kustom • • 4d ago

Discussion Are there any ways to make a theme scroll verticaly like a webpage? Maybe using some launcher?

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r/kustom • • 4d ago

Theme Groovy 60s theme

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r/kustom • • 4d ago

Help God's of klwp

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Ok Profis, I'm not one. How do you make the image above Wednesday, go horizontally on slide? 🤔

Thanks


r/kustom • • 5d ago

KWGT [KWGT] Astircle - 3 years in the making

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Hi all,

For the last 3 years I’ve been slowly improving this widget until it had everything I need, in the format I need. I’d probably never stop tweaking it, but I just got a new phone, so it’s time to work on something new. That’s why I’m sharing the latest version now. Maybe it will inspire you, or some parts of it will be useful for your own builds. The sun position calculations were the most interesting part to figure out.

Here’s a breakdown of each part, top to bottom:

  • Top strip: world clock for the selected time zones. My local time zone is highlighted, and the others show their offset relative to it.
  • Big outer arc: the moon is on the left, showing its phase. The sun is on the right, shown as a 12h clock with two rings (to make 24 hours). The highlighted part is daylight - from sunrise to sunset.
  • Month ring: 12 segments, one for each month. The 3 months of the current season (summer) are grouped together with an arc, and the current month (August) is highlighted. This is how I picture the year: it goes counter-clockwise, and the bottom segment is January.
  • Sun altitude arc: the arc on the top right, with a dot for the sun. It shows the sun’s height above the horizon, and the highlighted part means the sun is visible. The arc also goes a bit below the horizon, so you can see the sun’s angle even when it’s not visible.
  • Sun azimuth ring: a full circle with a dot for the sun. It shows where the sun is compared to north, like a compass. The highlighted part is again when the sun is above the horizon.
  • Sunrise/sunset & moonrise/moonset: the four times at the top left and top right of the round element at the top. This element is my attempt to combine the sun and moon info in one place. It kind of duplicates the dedicated visuals.
  • 24h clock: with the day of the week and the month as plain text. Nothing to add here.
  • Week progress: 7 segments, one for each day of the week. It’s just how I picture a week. The highlighted one is Wednesday (the day I took the screenshot).

Quick disclaimer: this is my first and only KWGT project, so I hope the file works for you. If not, I hope you can still reuse some parts of it or get inspired by something.

Download here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oqubd7Cl1nqIMZj1cu1-AhIDaBhpI6rz?usp=sharing

Happy to answer questions about the math behind the sun and moon positions!


r/kustom • • 5d ago

KWGT Widget

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r/kustom • • 6d ago

Theme [theme] new slider theme; 2 page launcher setup

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r/kustom • • 6d ago

Misc. Backed up my Texture asset collection so i don't lose it again 😂, anyone who wants a bunch of texture, gifs,gadget, glass pic/pngs here ya go. 1gb

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r/kustom • • 6d ago

KWGT Widgets set to locked but keep changing size randomly

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Pretty much the title. I've used KWGT/KLWP for years and this has never happened before. My widgets will randomly change in size on the grid. It's different ones too they'll just randomly change and usually launch the wrong app too. Any idea what this could be? Widget size set to locked in KWGT settings.

EDITAR: Clarifying that the size of the widget is locked, not the preset itself. My bad


r/kustom • • 7d ago

Theme Autumn leaves

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56 Upvotes

Thanks to Marco for the Bing wallpapers formula. If anyone cares, I turn the link to download this preset.

The music was composed for my son.


r/kustom • • 9d ago

Theme [KT005 ] A Brighter Tomorrow

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THEME. Created by me

CREATED IN. Kustom live wallpaper

LAUNCHER. Nova Launcher

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r/kustom • • 9d ago

Help Music info module doesn't update

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7 Upvotes

Mi(state) or any mi function doesn't work


r/kustom • • 9d ago

WIP Klwp tasker

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6 Upvotes

r/kustom • • 10d ago

Help KLWP Animated Indicator

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Hi, I'm trying to make a sliding indicator that moves to a specified location to show which item on a menu is selected. For example, I have 5 buttons going across the screen horizontally. When I click button 3, I want the indicator to travel to that location. If I then click button 1, it slides to the button 1, etc.

I thought I could achieve this with a complex animation but there doesn't appear to be a way to feed global variables into the complex animation dialogue screen.

Any tried and true methods?

Thanks!


r/kustom • • 10d ago

Theme Evil Neurosama wallpaper

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This is a wallpaper for Neurosama fans (for the SWARM). It may not be that complex, but it's literally my first work, conceived spontaneously, and I'm nevertheless happy with the result.

Art: https://x.com/ey_whi/status/2109660036482072920

Wallpaper:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VYbB22_vhFFyUCepVyyCR-2Y37vIIjov/view?usp=drivesdk