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Design for your screen, share for everyone. These tips help you build layouts that look great on your device — and help others know if your layout will work on theirs.
Pick Your Wallpaper FIRST
This is the easiest tip we can give you — and it saves the most headaches.
If your remote is going to have a background wallpaper image, add the wallpaper before you place any buttons. Once the wallpaper is in, lay your buttons and icons on top of it where you want them.
Your buttons lock to the wallpaper. As long as you don't swap the wallpaper out later, everything stays right where you put it — on every screen size your friends and family use.
If your remote is going to have a background wallpaper image, add the wallpaper before you place any buttons. Once the wallpaper is in, lay your buttons and icons on top of it where you want them.
Your buttons lock to the wallpaper. As long as you don't swap the wallpaper out later, everything stays right where you put it — on every screen size your friends and family use.
If you change the wallpaper later, button positions may need a tweak. Not the end of the world — just nudge things back. But starting with the wallpaper saves you that step entirely.
Standard Wallpaper Sizes
READYWARE has a set of standard sizes that match the most common devices. Pick the one closest to the device and orientation you're designing for:
📱 Phones
| Target | Resolution | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone Portrait (19.5:9) | 1170×2532 | iPhone upright |
| iPhone Landscape (19.5:9) | 2532×1170 | iPhone sideways |
| Android Portrait (20:9) | 1080×2400 | Modern Android phones upright |
| Android Landscape (20:9) | 2400×1080 | Modern Android phones sideways |
📲 Tablets
| Target | Resolution | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| iPad Portrait (4:3) | 1620×2160 | iPad upright |
| iPad Landscape (4:3) | 2160×1620 | iPad sideways |
| Android Tablet Portrait (16:10) | 1600×2560 | Most Android tablets upright |
| Android Tablet Landscape (16:10) | 2560×1600 | Most Android tablets sideways |
📺 Big Screen — TV & Laptop
| Target | Resolution | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| HD / 1080p (16:9) | 1920×1080 | Laptops, smaller TVs, smart displays |
| 4K UHD (16:9) | 3840×2160 | Modern 4K TVs, high-DPI laptops |
| 8K UHD (16:9) | 7680×4320 | 8K TVs and future-proof builds |
If you pick a photo from your camera roll that doesn't match these exactly, READYWARE auto-resizes it for you. Designing at one of the standard sizes just gives you the cleanest results.
The Big-Screen Hidden Gem
Most people install READYWARE on a phone or tablet and call it a day. The hidden secret? It's incredible on a TV. A Mac mini, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV stick, NVIDIA Shield, even a laptop hooked up to your living-room display — your remote takes the whole screen, edge-to-edge, with full-resolution wallpaper and big from-the-couch buttons.
What you can do on a TV:
• Full-screen wallpaper — your room photo, art, or branding behind the buttons
• Live video stream wallpaper — security cam, weather radar, or any HLS / RTSP feed running while you control the room
• Mouse, keyboard, or remote navigation — works with any pointing device the TV accepts
• 4K and 8K ready — buttons stay crisp on any size panel, from 24" to 85"+
• Same profile, every screen — design once at 4K and the same layout flows beautifully back to phones and tablets
Pro tip: if you're going to share or upload your remote, design at 3840×2160 (4K). It downscales gorgeously to phones and tablets but stays crisp on big screens. One profile, every device, every room.
What you can do on a TV:
• Full-screen wallpaper — your room photo, art, or branding behind the buttons
• Live video stream wallpaper — security cam, weather radar, or any HLS / RTSP feed running while you control the room
• Mouse, keyboard, or remote navigation — works with any pointing device the TV accepts
• 4K and 8K ready — buttons stay crisp on any size panel, from 24" to 85"+
• Same profile, every screen — design once at 4K and the same layout flows beautifully back to phones and tablets
Pro tip: if you're going to share or upload your remote, design at 3840×2160 (4K). It downscales gorgeously to phones and tablets but stays crisp on big screens. One profile, every device, every room.
The TV setup is the most underrated way to use READYWARE. Try it once and you'll see why we built the renderer to handle every screen size from a wristwatch to a wall-mounted 8K. Same code, same buttons, same wallpaper — different glass.
Wallpaper Image Sizes
When you make or pick your own wallpaper, bigger is better. A small image stretched to fill a big screen looks soft. A big image scaled down looks crisp.
Recommended source sizes (one per device class):
• 1170×2532 / 2532×1170 — iPhone (19.5:9)
• 1080×2400 / 2400×1080 — Android phones (20:9)
• 1620×2160 / 2160×1620 — iPad (4:3)
• 1600×2560 / 2560×1600 — Android tablets (16:10)
• 1920×1080 — HD TV / laptop (16:9)
• 3840×2160 — 4K TV (16:9) ← recommended for sharing
• 7680×4320 — 8K TV (16:9), future-proof
Match the orientation to your remote: a landscape remote wants a landscape image (wider than tall), portrait remote wants portrait. The renderer scales the matching pair to fit any screen.
Animated GIFs work too — READYWARE preserves the animation. Keep them under a few MB so the remote loads fast.
Recommended source sizes (one per device class):
• 1170×2532 / 2532×1170 — iPhone (19.5:9)
• 1080×2400 / 2400×1080 — Android phones (20:9)
• 1620×2160 / 2160×1620 — iPad (4:3)
• 1600×2560 / 2560×1600 — Android tablets (16:10)
• 1920×1080 — HD TV / laptop (16:9)
• 3840×2160 — 4K TV (16:9) ← recommended for sharing
• 7680×4320 — 8K TV (16:9), future-proof
Match the orientation to your remote: a landscape remote wants a landscape image (wider than tall), portrait remote wants portrait. The renderer scales the matching pair to fit any screen.
Animated GIFs work too — READYWARE preserves the animation. Keep them under a few MB so the remote loads fast.
If you grab an image off the web that's not exactly one of these sizes, no worries — READYWARE auto-resizes any photo you pick to a clean target. Designing at the standard sizes just means what you see in the editor is exactly what'll render on the device.
Live Video & Stream Wallpapers
You can use live video as your wallpaper — IP cameras, security feeds, weather radars, traffic cams, even live YouTube streams. Your buttons sit right on top of the live picture.
What works as a wallpaper URL:
• IP camera streams (HLS, MJPEG)
• HLS streams ending in
• Direct video files (MP4, WebM)
• Embeddable websites (cat.com, dish.com, weather sites)
What doesn't work: Some big sites (Netflix, Disney+, YouTube embed-blocked) refuse to load as backgrounds — that's the site's choice, not READYWARE. If a site won't load, try a different source or use a still image instead.
RTSP cameras — most home IP cameras use RTSP, which Android can't play directly. The fix is a free tool called go2rtc running on a small home computer or NAS — it converts RTSP to HLS, which works perfectly. One-time setup, then all your cameras work as wallpapers.
What works as a wallpaper URL:
• IP camera streams (HLS, MJPEG)
• HLS streams ending in
.m3u8 — most reliable• Direct video files (MP4, WebM)
• Embeddable websites (cat.com, dish.com, weather sites)
What doesn't work: Some big sites (Netflix, Disney+, YouTube embed-blocked) refuse to load as backgrounds — that's the site's choice, not READYWARE. If a site won't load, try a different source or use a still image instead.
RTSP cameras — most home IP cameras use RTSP, which Android can't play directly. The fix is a free tool called go2rtc running on a small home computer or NAS — it converts RTSP to HLS, which works perfectly. One-time setup, then all your cameras work as wallpapers.
Best use case: a kitchen remote with a live front-door camera as wallpaper. Tap a button to unlock the gate while you watch who's there. That's the magic.
Web Page Wallpapers
You can also drop a regular website URL in as your wallpaper — weather pages, dashboards, your home automation web UI, traffic maps, dish positioning pages, anything that loads in a browser.
Tips for web wallpapers:
• Use the direct page URL — not a search result link
• Pages that work in any iframe load best (most do)
• Pages with their own login screens won't auto-login — open them once on the device first
• Pages that auto-refresh themselves (radar, cameras) keep the wallpaper live
Tips for web wallpapers:
• Use the direct page URL — not a search result link
• Pages that work in any iframe load best (most do)
• Pages with their own login screens won't auto-login — open them once on the device first
• Pages that auto-refresh themselves (radar, cameras) keep the wallpaper live
If a site shows a black box instead of loading, that site has blocked itself from being embedded. Try a similar site from a different provider.
Landscape vs Portrait
Landscape (wider than tall) is great for full TV remotes with lots of buttons in rows. More horizontal space means number pads, D-pads and volume clusters all fit naturally.
Portrait (taller than wide) is better for simple remotes you hold like a phone. Fewer buttons, bigger targets.
Tip: Each remote has an orientation setting in its options — landscape, portrait, or both. If you set landscape and rotate the tablet to portrait, READYWARE shows the whole remote shrunk-to-fit so you can still see and tap every button — nothing falls off the screen.
Portrait (taller than wide) is better for simple remotes you hold like a phone. Fewer buttons, bigger targets.
Tip: Each remote has an orientation setting in its options — landscape, portrait, or both. If you set landscape and rotate the tablet to portrait, READYWARE shows the whole remote shrunk-to-fit so you can still see and tap every button — nothing falls off the screen.
Aspect Ratio Cheat Sheet
| Ratio | Shape | Common Devices |
|---|---|---|
| 19.5:9 | Tall phone | iPhone |
| 20:9 | Tall phone | Modern Android phones |
| 4:3 | Tablet shape | iPad, older tablets |
| 16:10 | Slightly tall | Most Android tablets, Pixel Tablet |
| 16:9 | Wide | HD / 4K / 8K TVs, laptops, smart displays |
The standard wallpaper sizes match these ratios exactly. Pick the size for your primary device — the layout still works on the rest. See the next tip for sharing across devices.
Designing for Sharing — The Safe Zone
When your remote is shared with someone using a different device, their screen shape may not match yours. A landscape iPhone is wider and skinnier than a landscape iPad. Some screen will be cropped at the edges to fill their display.
Solution: keep important buttons inside the safe zone. In the editor, tap 👁 Safe Zones and a green box appears. That box is the area visible on every device when fill-to-screen is on.
• Buttons inside the green box — visible on every device.
• Buttons outside the green box — may be cropped on phones or wide TVs.
• Decorative wallpaper detail outside the box is fine — it just gets gracefully cropped on smaller-aspect devices.
Solution: keep important buttons inside the safe zone. In the editor, tap 👁 Safe Zones and a green box appears. That box is the area visible on every device when fill-to-screen is on.
• Buttons inside the green box — visible on every device.
• Buttons outside the green box — may be cropped on phones or wide TVs.
• Decorative wallpaper detail outside the box is fine — it just gets gracefully cropped on smaller-aspect devices.
If your remote is just for your own device, ignore the safe zone — use every pixel. If you're sharing or contributing to the community library, stay inside the green box and your layout works for everyone.
The Demo Profile Standard
The READYWARE demo profile — 22 rooms, 63 remotes, with GIF wallpapers, custom icons, and macros — is built to the new wallpaper standard. Every wallpaper is sized for clean rendering across devices, every button is positioned in DP space, and the whole thing works edge-to-edge on phones and tablets, in any orientation.
It's a good benchmark to compare your own creations against. If your layout feels similar in scale and spacing to the demo, it'll probably feel right to other users too.
Best used at: phone landscape (2532×1170 or 2400×1080) or tablet landscape (2560×1600 or 2160×1620) for the most visual depth.
It's a good benchmark to compare your own creations against. If your layout feels similar in scale and spacing to the demo, it'll probably feel right to other users too.
Best used at: phone landscape (2532×1170 or 2400×1080) or tablet landscape (2560×1600 or 2160×1620) for the most visual depth.
Open the demo in the Web Viewer Demo and compare your layout to how it feels.
Design Tips That Just Work
Big buttons are better — 80×50px minimum. On a TV or large tablet, go 120×70px. Small buttons are hard to tap and look bad on big screens.
Group by function — power/volume in one corner, navigation in the center, input/menu along the bottom. Users expect TV remote logic — give it to them.
High contrast colors — dark wallpaper + gold or white buttons reads beautifully. Avoid low-contrast combos like dark gray on black — they vanish on photo wallpapers.
Leave a little breathing room — don't pack buttons right against the wallpaper edge. A bit of margin makes it look polished and gives finger taps a comfortable target.
Test before sharing — toggle Lock mode to view-only and try every button. If it works for you, it'll work for everyone else.
Group by function — power/volume in one corner, navigation in the center, input/menu along the bottom. Users expect TV remote logic — give it to them.
High contrast colors — dark wallpaper + gold or white buttons reads beautifully. Avoid low-contrast combos like dark gray on black — they vanish on photo wallpapers.
Leave a little breathing room — don't pack buttons right against the wallpaper edge. A bit of margin makes it look polished and gives finger taps a comfortable target.
Test before sharing — toggle Lock mode to view-only and try every button. If it works for you, it'll work for everyone else.
Icons & Buttons
Custom icons look best as square images, around 256×256px. The editor crops them square automatically.
Button labels work great for things words explain better than icons (HDMI 1, Apple TV, Bedroom). Keep them short — 1 to 2 words.
Colors should match a theme — pick a palette and stick with it. Two or three accent colors, used consistently, look way more professional than a rainbow.
Try the menu color setting in remote options — it themes lock pills, the back arrow, and the gear icon to match your design.
Button labels work great for things words explain better than icons (HDMI 1, Apple TV, Bedroom). Keep them short — 1 to 2 words.
Colors should match a theme — pick a palette and stick with it. Two or three accent colors, used consistently, look way more professional than a rainbow.
Try the menu color setting in remote options — it themes lock pills, the back arrow, and the gear icon to match your design.
What to Include When You Share
When you upload your layout, tell the community:
Device — what you designed it on (10" tablet, Fire HD 10, etc.)
Orientation — landscape or portrait
Aspect ratio — 16:9, 4:3, etc.
What it controls — TV brand, AC, full home, etc.
Any quirks — e.g. "designed for 10" tablets, may feel cramped on phones"
Device — what you designed it on (10" tablet, Fire HD 10, etc.)
Orientation — landscape or portrait
Aspect ratio — 16:9, 4:3, etc.
What it controls — TV brand, AC, full home, etc.
Any quirks — e.g. "designed for 10" tablets, may feel cramped on phones"
Good metadata = more downloads. Layouts with clear screen info get 3× more downloads than ones without.
Ready to share your layout?