Square Home

Hello Square Home users! We are thrilled to announce a major update that brings a fresh, modern aesthetic and even more powerful customization tools to your favorite launcher. This update focuses on beauty, fluidity, and efficiency. Here is what’s new: 1. Reimagined with Jetpack Compose & Material Design We’ve completely overhauled the app's interface using Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern toolkit for native UI. This transition allowed us to fully implement the latest Material Design principles. You will notice smoother animations, more responsive interactions, and a refined, polished look that feels more intuitive and consistent with the modern Android experience. 2. New Tile Background Effects: "Inverse" Mode We are expanding our visual library with two unique background effects designed to make your layout stand out: The "Inverse" effects create a striking visual hierarchy by applying the effect to the area around the tile or creating a high-contrast foc...

Hello, Square Home users! I'm excited to introduce two powerful new features in this update (v3.4) that will maximize convenience and add stunning visual depth to your home screen: Global Search and Glass Edge. Let's dive into how your home screen experience has evolved! 1. Everything in One Place: Global Search No more digging through the app drawer to find an app or opening the contacts just to find someone. Now, you can find everything at once right within Square Home. • Unified Search Experience: Find installed apps, contacts, and even system settings with a single search. • Web Search Integration: If the information isn't on your device, it seamlessly connects you to installed apps like Google Search, Play store, YouTube, Spotify, Wikipedia, Maps and Uber for a continuous search experience. • Quick Access: Just add it as a page on your home screen—it is the fastest path to the information you need. Now, "Searching" is one of the things Square Home does best. ...

Some users  ask why their selection using the sorting button on the bottom menu bar of the App drawer (or Contacts) is not saved. To put it simply, this is because that button was implemented to be used for "temporary sorting." For example, if you're curious about which apps have been recently updated, you can easily check by selecting "Recently updated." To "permanently" set the sorting order of the App drawer or Contacts, you can go to the Home options, navigate to the App drawer or Contacts section, and select "Sort order." For a detailed explanation of the "Smart" sorting option in the App drawer, please refer to item 1 in the post titled "Some Tips for the App Drawer" .

Square Home provides powerful backup and restore features through the Backup Center. The Backup Center can be accessed from the menu or the Home options. Click the "+ button" at the bottom to create a backup, and all data including the currently set layout, options, folders, and categories will be saved. To restore the created backup, click the backup name. Uncheck (default) the box below to restore the folders and categories at the time of backup creation. If checked, the current folders and categories will be maintained. When the backup is restored, third-party shortcuts or widgets will need to be reconfigured. This is because the actual data for the shortcuts or widgets is on the third-party app side, and Square Home cannot save them when backing up. If you restore a backup from another device, you may need to adjust the Tile size because the dpi of the screen is different. You can easily adjust it to fit the changed screen size by selecting "Tile Size Wizard" in...

The open beta test for the version 3.1 started and you can join it easily in the app page of the Play store app or click the one of the following links. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome2 Web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ss.squarehome2 The new version includes a new widget, RSS Reader, and new gestures, Two-finger swipe down/up. Please refer to the  update history  for more details. Here's a sample screenshot for the new widget. RSS Reader widget You can customize the widget by adding your favorite RSS feed URLs. Enjoy it!

As you may already know, Google introduced the Material You theme system in Android 12. One of the most important features of the Material You theme is the dynamic color system, which allows you to personalize the color scheme of the theme to your taste. This can be achieved by selecting the desired color scheme when setting the wallpaper in the system settings, as shown in the figure. Dynamic color system of Android 12 You can find more information about Material You design at the following article. Everything you need to know about Material Design 3 The newly released Square Home (version 3) fully supports Material You's dynamic color system. Once you've selected your preferred color palette in the system settings, here's how to apply it to the user interface of Square Home. 1. Open the Home option. 2. Go to the "Behavior and UI" section. 3. Enable the "Dynamic color theme" option. (Android 12 and above) Before applying the Dynamic color theme After ap...