How I Made My Own Custom Android Theme With a Few Free Apps

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Many Android enthusiasts are familiar with basic personalization through launchers and custom icon packs, but that barely scratches the surface of just how much you can customize on Android. Here’s your beginner’s guide to exploring the world of advanced Android customization.

What This Guide Covers

With custom launchers and icon packs, you can change the look of your home screen very easily. However, that’s just the tip of the Android-theming iceberg. Kustom is a suite of Android tools that lets you make your own beautiful widgets, lock screens, wallpapers, and more. They work without root, and they’re all free to use.

Kustom Widget Maker (KWGT) lets you create your own widgets from scratch with total control of every single design element. Think of it as Rainmeter but for Android. Kustom Live Widget Maker allows you to create sophisticated interactive widgets.

If you’ve grown bored with the stock lock screen on your Android, try the Kustom Lock Screen Maker (KLCK). You can create entire screens from scratch using every kind of UI element you can think of. Or tweak preset lock screens exactly to your liking.

Kustom also has a thriving community of Android enthusiasts where they create resources, help each other with troubleshooting, and share their awesome designs (themes, code, widgets, live wallpapers, lock screens, and more). You can import their designs into your device or edit to your liking before use.

The Kustom suite offers powerful and full-scale customization on Android. Your imagination is the only limit. That’s why it comes with a learning curve, which can be intimidating at first. There’s so much these apps can do that it’ll be impossible to cover it all in a single guide (or even a dozen).

Happily, you don’t need to know everything to get started. To help you do that, I’ll demonstrate how you can create a custom home screen and lock screen using Kustom apps.

How to Create Custom Widgets

You only need the Kustom Widget