CloX - Android Smartwatch Launcher + Watch Face Engine
High-performance Android smartwatch launcher with a native Lua/C++ watch face engine, Material Design 3 UI, full-screen gestures, and blur app animations. Runs WatchMaker faces natively, plus Wear OS (WFF) and Stock system (HSC) faces via the WFTools converter.
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| Latest Version | Unknown |
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| License | Unknown |
| CI Status | Failing |
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| Forks | 1 |
| Open Issues | 0 |
| Last Commit | 2026-07-30 |
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| Last Indexed | 2026-09-06 06:05 |
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Installation
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git clone https://gitlab.com/ailife8881/clox
OS Compatibility
| Platform | Linux | macOS | Windows | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | NetBSD | Android | iOS | WASM | Embedded |
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| CloX - Android Smartwatch Launcher + Watch Face Engine | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
Source
| Repository | https://gitlab.com/ailife8881/clox |
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| Homepage | https://gitlab.com/ailife8881/clox |
| Registry Source | gitlab |
README
CloX — Android Smartwatch Launcher & Watch Face Engine
CloX is a high-performance launcher for Android smartwatches. It replaces your watch's home screen with a fast native watch face engine, a fully customizable Material Design 3 interface, full-screen gesture navigation, and smooth app open/close animations with a live blur effect — and it runs WatchMaker, Wear OS, and Huami/Zepp (HSC) watch faces out of the box.
If you're looking for the best custom launcher for an Android watch — one that plays real WatchMaker faces at 60 fps, looks modern, and lets you change everything — that's CloX.
CloX is a full replacement for Universal Launcher. It's a modern, drop-in successor that keeps full backward compatibility — everything Universal Launcher did, CloX does too — while improving on it with a native performance renderer, Material Design 3, edge gestures, and blur app animations. If you're using Universal Launcher today, CloX is the upgrade.
⬇️ Download the latest release · Developer guide · Integration API
What CloX does
- 🚀 Native performance renderer. Watch faces render through a native Lua/C++ engine (built on the Axmol game engine), not a WebView or a heavy UI toolkit — so animations stay smooth and battery stays cool.
- 🎨 Modern Material Design 3 UI. Every screen — app list, quick settings, widgets, notifications — uses a clean, modern MD3 design built natively for a round watch display.
- 👆 Full-screen gesture navigation. Swipe from any edge: left for the app list, down for quick settings, up for widgets, right for notifications and media. No wasted bezel, no buttons.
- ✨ App animations with blur. Apps open, close, and get interrupted with fluid transitions and a real-time blur effect behind them — the polished feel you'd expect from a flagship phone, on your wrist.
- 🛠️ Everything is customizable. Gestures, actions, icon packs (with per-app overrides), app-list layouts (list / grid / pages / honeycomb), blur strength, hidden apps, watch faces — tune it all to taste.
- ⌚ Runs every popular watch face format. CloX natively plays WatchMaker faces. Paired with the companion converter WFTools, it also supports Wear OS Watch Face Format (WFF) and Huami / Zepp / HSC (HiWatch) faces — plus Facer and Clockology formats.
Supported watch face formats
| Format | Support |
|---|---|
WatchMaker (.watch) |
✅ Native |
| Wear OS Watch Face Format (WFF) | ✅ via WFTools converter |
| Huami / Zepp / HSC (HiWatch) | ✅ via WFTools converter |
| Facer | ✅ via WFTools converter |
| Clockology | ✅ via WFTools converter |
Thousands of existing WatchMaker, Facer, and Zepp faces already work on CloX — you're not starting from an empty gallery.
Install
- Open the Releases page and download the latest CloX APK.
- Sideload it onto your Android watch (
adb install -r clox.apk, or copy it to the watch and install with a file manager). - Set CloX as your default launcher / home app when prompted.
- Open CloX Settings from the app list to pick a watch face, remap gestures, and choose an icon pack.
Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.
Frequently asked questions
Is CloX a replacement for Universal Launcher? Yes. CloX fully replaces Universal Launcher with complete backward compatibility — anything you did on Universal Launcher works on CloX — and adds a native watch face renderer, Material Design 3 UI, full-screen gestures, and blur app animations on top. It's the modern successor, not a side-grade.
Is CloX a launcher or a watch face app? Both. CloX is a full home-screen launcher for Android watches and a native watch face engine — one app replaces your watch's stock home screen entirely.
Which watches does it run on? Any Android-based smartwatch running Android 8.0+ (this includes many Wear OS and custom-Android watches). It is not a phone app.
Can I use my existing WatchMaker / Wear OS / Zepp faces? Yes. WatchMaker .watch faces run
natively; Wear OS (WFF), Huami/Zepp (HSC), Facer, and Clockology faces are converted with the free
companion tool WFTools.
Why is it fast? Faces are drawn by a native Lua/C++ GL renderer instead of a WebView or a heavy UI framework, so complex animated faces run at high frame rates without draining the battery.
Is it customizable? Extensively — gestures, actions, icon packs, app-list styles, blur, hidden apps, and watch faces are all configurable in-app.
For developers
- DEVELOPMENT.md — architecture, tech stack, CLI build, and internals.
- INTEGRATION.md — public APIs for companion apps, transfer tools, and watchface stores (change / install / list faces, push live data).
License
Private — all rights reserved. CloX, the CloX launcher, and the CloX watch face engine are the work of the CloX project.