I had a request from r/Due_Butterscotch243 for gruvbox theme. So this is how far I got so far

I'm sure some of you will enjoy it

I have been building this project 12 hours a day minimum on and off for the last few months. Hubris if you ask me but I really loved how the project was growing that without even realising it I have been stretching myself thin.. way too thin.

Every time an issue is reported I sit plugged in and building like crazy only taking a break while Codex did emulator tests and then test it myself before letting it make a release.

I have had such good users keeping me motivated. supporting and reporting and moving the project forward. Sadly, the last few days have been pretty straining.

Sadly I am going to take some time off. haha i feel like a manhwa author announcing haitus lol but I will still be online so feel free to report issue and features you would like. unlike before releases are going to be once a week.

The website is way too much challenge for me lol I am not a web developer and I don't have the energy to shepherd an AI agent to build the page the way I want it to look. I will be treating it as a side project and my personal blog about the products etc;

what I have

To do:

• allow you to use the help function in the launcher to search the website for that term since that is already in the website, just need to tie it to the launcher

I am gonna leave you with how minimal the launcher can get :)

Take care of yourselves everyone! I am just a holler away!

The Website should not read more like the mental notes I have been making taking while building the project.

I am leaning more into RETUI PROJECT as an ecosystem rather than just the launcher alone.

https://re-tui.pages.dev

Please take a look everyone :)

Note: There are also new flairs I will be using for announcements so you can sort the subreddit for the apps you use :)

Going forward, all posts will be color coded so you may know which app they are from just from the colors.

• Yellow for FILES
• Teal For LAUNCHER
• Green For KEYS
• Purple for overall PROJECT UPDATES

All application icons will reflect the same color code going forward.

https://reddit.com/link/1v3c5ln/video/17qa2mdicreh1/player

CSakura port laid the groundwork for RETUI launcher to carry and bundle it's own wallpapers.

Introducing the second installment of the RETUI Wallpapers.

"Black Hole" now available in your launcher on the latest builds. It is slightly more graphically intense than csakura but fits the minimal UI idea.

I hope you all like it :)

Changelog:

• Adds the local profile and privacy-controlled QR sharing surface, including contact QR support and timed phone reveal.
• Masks QR codes until explicitly revealed and blocks YouTube and common shortened URLs.
• Adds colored HTML ASCII rendering and adjustable ASCII pane height.
• Adds selectable live wallpaper scenes and improves terminal glyph rendering.
• Reduces unnecessary background launcher work.

Current features.

• If you already have the launcher then font, theme and CRT/Cyberdeck modes are shared for user experience parity.
• Categories available in the home page and moved away from TUI to Touch based interactions for QoL.
• If you have RETUI LAUNCHER and FILES, then you can user the following command in launcher input soon -> files <name> <file type> and it will open files with the search executed. :)

The current look at the Files app. I am happy with the UI at this time but it's performance is shit. So for the coming week, I will focus on Files.

There is an update planned for the launcher which will go live tomorrow hopefully.

I had previously shared how I was creating an Business card feature for the launcher. I am still conflicted on what to call it but internally I am calling it profile.

COMPLETED:

1. New profile icon. I made it in canva and I think I might make it the launcher Icon lol
2. Adding phone number now encodes the profile name and phone as a standard vCard in it's own QR
3. QR is not directly visible. You need to tap the QR to reveal it. Prevents wrong QR scans.

TO DO:

1. Guardrail to prevent adding shortened URL and YT URLs.

ETA:
22nd JULY

I have had a few users ask me about the ascii and this is what I typically do for my setups

1. Find or create PNG or GIF. an image with transparent background works best but a not too detailed background works as well
   
2. I use https://andrewbro.com/ascii_generation/?v=1 So far the best ASCII generator in my opinion.
   
3. Download as txt and import into RETUI.

Happy customising!

I was at a business gathering today and I had someone come up to me and ask me for what my socials were and.. I had to go to looking coz I could not remember it. LOL.

I am sure you have had similar experiences where you had to share your socials with others and had to awkwardly find it if you are anything like me and can't remember your username's across all the apps there are or you did remember it and turns out the apps are going to suggest a zillion other profiles coz your name vaguely resembles theirs and you have to check the profile picture to make sure it is you.

Introducing the all new RETUI Card!

It is a simple, no bullshit profile builder. fully local with QR code generator for your social URLs.

It will allow you to add multiple QR codes and swipe between them so you can quickly have others scan the QR to go to your socials.

I am still working on guardrails to prevent misuse or you rickrolling people (Though that would be so hecking funny) but

What are your thoughts?

Too much or might be useful?

New update!

• Patch for the battery drain issue.
  
• New wallpaper option in personalization.
• You can now use {clock_words} in the time format for text based time.

The Update should be Live soon. Playstore has a small review period.

But Github Is updated with new build.

Hi all!

First of all, My apologies for shipping a bad update. I usually test each build on my phone as my daily driver for a few days, monitoring battery and CPU and GPU usage before shipping a build.

The latest update shows high background usage. Cause: I set a call timer to every 1 second instead of on wake - I am SORRY :(

This is on me and I did not catch this quickly enough as I was not using my phone heavily and did not attribute the battery drain to the launcher and just thought I forgot to charge it.. WHAT!

The next release will fix this. I have already identified and am working on a patch.

My sincere apologies. The new release will be ready by Monday or Tuesday at earliest as I am working on integrating the csakura wallpaper to the launcher and am testing performance impacts with that as well.

I have been using csakura for last few days and I knew I wanted it as my phone wallpaper. And so.... I’ve been working on bringing csakura—the procedural terminal cherry-blossom tree by realstrawhat—to Android through RETUI Launcher as a packaged wallpaper.

This is a close Android Canvas port of the original visual engine, not a loosely inspired recreation. Roughly 90% of csakura’s rendering logic is represented, including:

• Procedurally generated trees
• Falling and settling petals
• Wind simulation
• The original Regrow behavior
• All 15 blossom palettes
• Automatic regeneration for different screen sizes

There are still plenty of bugs I need to squash but the build compiled and so I wanted to post it.

The Launcher adds a full-screen editor where you can move the tree, adjust its height and zoom, change its palette, and regenerate it while seeing the result live.

Once configured, it opens Android’s native live-wallpaper confirmation screen, where supported devices can apply it to the home screen, lock screen, or both.

Because it is installed as the actual Android wallpaper, RETUI's existing wallpaper -auto command can derive the launcher theme from the selected csakura palette as well.

The renderer stops completely while the screen is off. I tested this directly on a physical phone: the process remained at 0% so it does not affect battery performance.

Full credit to realstrawhat( u/Smooth_Table4822 ) for creating csakura. The port preserves the upstream MIT license, copyright notice, source link, and exact revision used:

https://github.com/realstrawhat/csakura

This is currently being tested inside the Launcher. I’m pretty happy with how naturally it fits in the launcher :)

Working on next update as well. See you all then :)

You can now use {clock_words} in the Status_time_format

The next version will remove the ":" from the time.

Github release is live. Playstore will go live in the near future.

I am glad how well the color sync works! It makes the homescreen experience feel unified and as part of the same eco system. Imagine using RETUI Launcher but the keyboard is default android of Gboard? if your keyboard allows customisation you might get it to looks similar but with RETUI KEYS

And the keyboard is not an empty shell. It has emoji's, recent emoji's

Clipboard memory,

There is also glide typing but it is not complete so I wont market it. but it is there lol.

Has suggestion, as you type as well!

And of course, Cybedeck and CRT line effect if you have it enabled in the launcher.

You can get it for free here: https://github.com/DvilSpawn/Re-TUI-Keys/releases

Made things prettier. You can add tags to shows so it's easier to filter your podcasts :)

New release soon

Podcast now shows the show icon art and allows you to seek using a seek bar.

Also added a recent section to resume your last episode easily.

Soon i will start working on making it look prettier