9 skins that each try a different idea: a night sky, a sea floor, cut paper, a terminal, a poster, a toy box, an aquarium, a winter room and falling code. All of them are free, run without network access and were measured on a real 2 GB Android TV.
Older launcher versions: open Install skin, scan the code with your phone and paste this link in
“Gallery link”: https://paulbennet.github.io/AndroidTVLauncher/gallery/gallery.json
If that link does not load, use the mirror: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/paulbennet/AndroidTVLauncher@main/site/gallery/gallery.json
Your apps as a night-sky map. Favourites form a bright constellation, other apps are fainter stars, and a three.js sky that can move in depth as you fly from star to star.
three.js sky painted once, then flattened to one picture; stars as focus targets placed by hand.
A calm deep-sea pool: glass pebbles for your apps, and caustic light (three.js) that takes the colour of the app you pick.
three.js caustic light baked into the sea-floor picture when the focus rests; opaque "glass" pebbles.
A hand-made paper diorama: layered paper hills (three.js) that follow the time of day, pinned paper cards for your apps, and optional depth motion.
three.js paper hills painted once per time of day; follows the clock (day, dusk, night).
A planted reef tank fills the screen; fish swim for a while after each key press, then rest. Your apps sit in one quiet row, and the row steps aside when you only watch.
Live for 20 s after a key: fish cut-outs drawn on a canvas over a still tank, then the scene rests.
A cosy living room on a winter evening: the fire flickers, the tree lights twinkle and snow falls outside for a while after each key press. Your apps sit in one quiet row.
Live for 20 s after a key: fire glow, tree lights and snow over a still photo of the room.
Streams of glowing code fall in depth over a dark floor. Each app is a stream that ends in its picture and name; the rain falls for a while after each key press, then holds still.
Live for 20 s after a key: three depths of glyph rain from sprite sheets; apps are portals in the rain.
A 1980s green-screen terminal as your home screen. Level 1: only CSS on the launcher's own layout, no scripts.
Level 1: only CSS on the default layout. Static glow and scanlines, three colours.
A 1920s poster as your home screen: a giant clock over a red circle, primary-colour blocks with one shape each, and the focused app set vertically. Level 2: a layout file and CSS.
Level 2: its own layout file plus CSS. Flat shapes, no pictures, the fastest skin here.
A toy box for children: chunky building blocks, a clock made of toy blocks and a friendly mascot that looks at what you pick. Other apps stay behind a grown-up switch.
Level 2 for children: big blocks, a mascot that looks at the focused block.
Tiers come from lx bench --tv on a Sony Bravia (Mali-G31, 2 GB). Lite,
Standard and Rich pass every gate. Heavy skins failed only a
smoothness gate: the TV uses them only when you turn on Launcher settings → Allow heavy skins.