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That design is pretty neat! It was actually an Android homescreen that the user customized on a large Android device using the SharpTools for Android widgets. You can find more details on how they built it in their original SmartThings community post:

He used an Android app called Total Launcher along with the theme Flattered to get the style his wife was looking for.

One thing you’ll notice is there’s actually relatively limited home automation control on the screen. Most of the icons are actually just images to launch native applications on the tablet (Google Home, Shopping List, Google Assistant, Chat, Chrome, Email, TinyCam, etc). The original creator mentioned in their post that much of the effort was picking the color scheme and finding icons to use for the apps.

You could achieve a similar effect on SharpTools.io dashboards using the newly announced Media Tile ‘Open Hyperlink’ action. The basic approach would be to create Media items for each of the various application icons you wanted on the screen and then add those as tiles to a dashboard and edit the media tile’s action to open an app via hyperlink.

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