How to Disable Accidental Gestures While Playing Mobile Games
Launcher gestures cannot fire inside games — so what is minimising yours? The three real culprits and the game-mode, exclusion and assignment fixes for each.
How to Apply Icon Packs to Smart Launcher 6 Floating Category Dock
The dock renders your pack at its smallest and least forgiving. Why one global pack is a feature, and how to audit and tune for dock scale without breaking the home screen.
How to Enable Material You Dynamic Theming on Smart Launcher 6
Two theming engines share your phone. Material You paints the system and apps; Ambient paints the launcher. Set both from the same wallpaper and the seams disappear.
Fixing Custom Font Files Not Loading Correctly in Launcher Themes
Attempts to fix custom font files not loading correctly in your launcher theme fail in predictable places, because “the font does not load” is four different faults wearing one label: the file is i…
How to Disable Unnecessary Visual Blur Animations for Maximum Speed
Advice to disable visual blur animations for maximum launcher speed is usually given as a ritual — turn everything off, feel virtuous — when in fact blur is a specific, measurable cost with a speci…
Resolving Smart Launcher Feature Lock Outs After Android System Patch
To resolve launcher feature lockout problems after an Android system patch, first understand that nothing has been “locked” in the licensing sense. What actually happens on update day is a pile-up …
How to Stop Wallpaper Stretches and Distortion in Smart Launcher 6
The knowledge of how to stop wallpaper stretch and distortion in a launcher is mostly geometry. A wallpaper is a rectangle of fixed proportions; your screen is a rectangle of different proportions;…
Fixing Notification Count Badges Disappearing After Battery Saver Mode
Trying to fix notification count badges disappearing after battery saver mode reveals a chain with three links, and the break can be at any of them. Link one: the app must actually post notificatio…
How to Clear Smart Launcher 6 Cache Safely Without Losing Custom Layouts
Learning how to clear a launcher cache without losing your custom layouts comes down to one distinction that Android’s settings screen does a terrible job of explaining: cache and data are two diff…
Fixing Screen Orientation Glitches When Switching to Landscape Mode
Work to fix a screen orientation glitch in landscape mode on a launcher splits into two unrelated faults that share a symptom family: the launcher itself misbehaving when rotated (icons clipped, pa…