AT4K Launcher
Apple TV inspired Launcher for Android TVs
Details
- External ID
- 48306719
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- AT4K Launcher
- Website domain
- at4klauncher.com
- Launched
- May 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!I'm the developer of OffChess a Hackernews favorite Chess puzzles app. About 6 months ago I saw someone reviewing an Apple TV 4k on their youtube channel and it looked vastly superior in terms of UI and UX to what Android based Google TVs provide. I asked the people over at r/AndroidTV if someone has ported Apple TV experience to Android TV and they said no. So I built a makeshift video and posted on Reddit. People there loved it and started sending me Reddit chat messages every day to build and launch it.So it took me 3 months to solve all edge cases and I built and launched AT4K Launcher in January and people absolutely loved it. Since then BGR, Android Authority, Makeuseof and multiple tech websites have featured it as one of the best Android Launchers.Clean, fast, minimal, pretty, no accounts, no tracking, no monthly subscriptions, no internet required. Just you and your apps. With Live wallpaper, custom app icons, icon packs support and multiple ways to modify your home screen AT4K Launcher packs everything you need in a neat ui.Here is the play store link- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overdevs.a...Would love feedback, bug reports, or suggestions.Thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- launcher for android tvs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic Android launcher UI in Kotlin/Compose can be built quickly, but integrating deeply with Android TV APIs, maintaining 60fps smooth animations on low-spec TV hardware, and parsing proprietary 'Watch Next' provider channels is technically challenging.
What it would actually take: The app must be developed in native Android (Kotlin) using Leanback or TV-specific Jetpack Compose libraries, integrating directly with `TvContract` and Android TV provider content resolvers for the 'Watch Next' carousel. The hard parts are optimizing memory and render performance for underpowered TV SoC chipsets, handling D-pad focus state transitions flawlessly, and managing custom icon packs/wallpapers within restrictive Android TV sandbox constraints. This requires seasoned native Android TV developers.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Plasma BigScreen
Concerns raised: Only available for specific platform, not Linux
Feature requests: Linux version, Flutter implementation option, Documentation on how to build launchers
Competitors
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Launched 207 days after the earliest competitor.
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