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needanke ,

I looked for a new launcher when the sale was anounced a year ago and was sad to find no launvhers I can customize that much.

I went for Kvaesitso (github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso also on F-Droid) and stuck with it since. I really like the concept althought it might not be for everyone.

HereIAm ,

All I want is to remove the mandatory google search bar and calendar/weather widget at the top of the home screen on my pixel.

While alot of the third party launchers I’ve seen look cool and functional, in this case I would love just more simple one.

DoucheBagMcSwag , (edited )

Missun Faiuled, we’ll giet 'm neaxut tiume

koncertejo ,

I’d heartily recommend Niagara Launcher to anyone that wants something a little different.

johannesvanderwhales ,

It’s good if that’s what you want, but it is completely different from nova

0oWow ,

Article mentions 3rd party launcher gesture issues, but I’ve never seen this problem. I used to use Nova but switched to Smart launcher for the blur, but at no time have gestures been an issue. Any ideas what they mean?

clay_pidgin ,

There’s a known (assumed intentional) issue with Android where a gesture to go home will show the home screen, but nothing responds to touch for a half second. I’ve been using Nova for years and I experience it daily. I feel like the delay has gotten better, though.

0oWow ,

Ooooh that. Yeah I get that with android auto.

I’ve recently turned off all apps (including google) permission to draw over other apps and that seems to have stopped it for me, on Pixel 8.

clay_pidgin ,

That makes sense. Good tip.

dgriffith ,

Immediately switches to google play to turn off auto update for Nova Launcher

SchadeMarmelade ,

Thanks for neminding me!

Moonrise2473 ,

we were all scared that they would do data mining or introduce ads on the launcher. They promised that they wouldn’t. Surprisingly, they kept the promise.

I’m surprised that could feed a team of 12 devs with a free app with small one time payment to unlock power features.

Isn’t the app mature enough to have a just full time dev behind to keep it updated with api changes?

vanontom , (edited )
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Branch is apparently a $4B Silicon Valley startup, that raised $300M just two years ago. They can afford Nova’s team of twelve, or at least more than one fucking dev. They even fired Cliff, the one guy doing support (social, Discord, email, etc).

That said, I wish they wouldn’t have sold out. Nova is one of the few things I want to subscribe to, very well earned. Nobody can reasonably complain about $10-20 per year for “Prime Ultra” or something. I don’t even see a donate button in settings.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

On the plus side, #5 can relax at last.

FurtiveFugitive ,

Meh. Nova is the best launcher in my opinion but I’ve already been version locked to the last release before this company bought it. I’ve basically given up in anyone else replicating the features I want. So I’ll be using this version of Nova until Google finally breaks it.

wolfpack86 , (edited )

Same! I refuse to update it and got a little annoyed at a post I saw where the dev (at least I think it was him) said “hey it’s 1 year later and the world hasn’t exploded”. Found that a little annoying.

Let’s hope he gets control of the app back and can do nova again, without this shit baked in.

Edit: guess I should have RTFA first. Gross

lemmyvore ,

What version are you on? I’m on 7.0.58.

Curious_Canid ,
@Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve been using Nova for a very long time. It has saved me all kinds of annoyance as I’ve switched phone brands and OS versions, since my basic UI has remained consistent.

Unless it actually takes a dive in quality, I will continue to use it, but this is disappointing news.

TangledMind ,

Aw man! I’ve used nova launcher for probably about a decade at this point :(

There’s no way in hell I’m going back to SMASNUG’s crusty launcher. What’s the next best thing that isn’t a beta test?

Zwiebel ,

Stock Android with GrapheneOS :D

PopOfAfrica ,

I like Lawnchair. It’s open source tol

all4one ,

I’m still looking for a launcher similar to nova. The two big things I want are the swipe action on homescreen icons. For example I set the swipe up on my phone app to directly call someone. And I have the swipe up on other apps open a separate app instead. Other thing is being able to create folders of apps in the app drawer.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Same! Except I use swipe up to go to Google voice and swipe down to go to contacts.

Folders are also clutch. I don’t want to search for my apps.

AI_toothbrush ,

Btw i recommend kvaesitso. Idk what nova is like but kvaesitso is open source, has updates and is a very nice launcher in general. Its a bit hard to set-up at first because it uses widgets but after you figure it out its really nice.

TheChargedCreeper864 ,

I’m currently on it because Neo Launcher stopped working one day, but is there a way to have app icons on the home screen without them being in the dock? It fills up quickly if you use PWA’s

rescue_toaster ,

No. You don’t manually place apps on homescreen. I have it configured to only show one row of favorites, which are categorized as “pinned - manually sorted”. Than the rest of my favorites are seen when i swipe to app drawer.

then_three_more ,

Did a recent update really break it for you? I’ve had to move over to square home at the moment.

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

Now that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time, last time I tried different launcher was maybe in 2015… I didn’t know custom launcher were still popular. I try to use vanilla android

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@kbin.run avatar

This basically means I'll ditch Samsung, because frankly their stock launcher sucks donkey balls.

dutchkimble ,

I’ve been using Square Home on my samsung after I got bored with Nova and quite enjoy it

nul9o9 ,

Fucking hell.

I’ve been using Nova for years, it’s nice there are replacement recommendations on this thread.

lastweakness ,

It’s a major switch in style but I’ve really been enjoying Niagara

Neon ,

Used to use Niagara, but now moved to Kvaesitso

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