{
 "id": 76071,
 "slug": "i-wrote-my-own-android-home-screen-a-list-three-cards-and-a-terminal-into-the-homelab",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/i-wrote-my-own-android-home-screen-a-list-three-cards-and-a-terminal-into-the-homelab/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "I wrote my own Android home screen: a list, three cards and a terminal into the homelab",
 "subtitle": "If your home screen is somebody else's idea of what you need, know that it is just an app.",
 "summary": "In August 2026 I replaced the launcher on my Fairphone 5 with one I wrote myself, for one user: no app store, no onboarding, no settings menu for people who are not me. Built in a day, improved every week since.",
 "topics": [
  "Freedom",
  "android",
  "design",
  "minimal",
  "programming",
  "smartphone"
 ],
 "date": "2026-08-31",
 "published": "2026-08-31T00:00:00+02:00",
 "created": "2026-09-08T11:20:05.398000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-08T11:48:54.708000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2026-08-31_my-own-custom-android/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "Can you write your own Android home screen, and what does a launcher for one user look like?",
 "text": "It works because it does less: a list of the things I actually open, three cards with what I want to see at a glance, and a terminal that opens straight into the machine in the homelab.\nTwo weeks of Android only brought friction too, and I kept the honest balance in the post. But the phone became malleable, and that is worth more to me than polish.\nIn principle everything now works, smartphone only, which I would have called unimaginable a year ago. A home screen is just an app, you can write your own.",
 "markdown_url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/i-wrote-my-own-android-home-screen-a-list-three-cards-and-a-terminal-into-the-homelab/snippet.md"
}