Create your own homescreen

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The Misunderstood Home Screen

Apple may have brought an end to skeuomorphism once and for all with iOS 7, but if you still like a bit of realism in your home screen, DeviantArt user kimilite has you covered.

This design uses simple badges on a literal interpretation of a wallpaper. Here's what you'll need to create this design on your own device:

• Apex Launcher
• Minimalistic Text
• MIUI Analog Clock Widget
• Eye In Sky Weather
• Dock and Icon images
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  The Circles Home Screen

  

  While many modern interfaces are moving to a more square, grid-based look, Deviantart user dandylion7 opted for something more round and organic.

  If you'd like to get this theme for your Android device, here's what you'll need:

  • Sweeter Home launcher (beta)
  • Minimalistic Text
  • Missed It!
  • Icon pack
  • Wallpaper

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Home Screen with Shelves

  

  Shooting for a simple and elegant look, chrisbanks2 created this great-looking home screen that turns your apps into items on a shelf and widgets into posters on a wall.

  If you want to make your phone more homey, here's what you'll need:

  • Widgetlocker
  • Mclock mod
  • Shelf image
  • Player Pro Widgets

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Ubuntu Home Screen

  

  Reader Ollie Terrance wanted to get the look and feel of Ubuntu phone on his Android device. 

  With a little help from Buzz Launcher and Widget Locker, that's exactly what he did.

  • Launcher: Buzz Launcher.
  • Lock Screen: Widget Locker.
  • Ubuntu Homepack.
  • Buzz Custom Widget.
  • Official Ubuntu font.
  • Tiny White Icon Pack.
  • Missed It!
  • Minimalistic Text.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

      The Docked-and-Tiled Home Screen

  

      Reader Elysium1215 put together a neat home screen with a dock on the side and a very 

     cool tiled    set of icons. Here's how to put it together.

     Elysium1215 explains how the dock works:

  With this homescreen I attempted to create the effect of having a dock on the side of the screen. When swiping from left to right, the dock "opens" by quickly transitioning to a homescreen which has a sidebar and everything (including the background!) shifted to the right by 1 column. The overall effect is really cool.

         Apart from that, all you need to recreate this is:

  •     Launcher: Nova Launcher
  •    Clock Widget: Custom UCCW skin
  •    Icons: Minimal MIUI theme
  •   Multipicture Live Wallpaper

      You can grab the individual wallpapers and other files here.