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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

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

Just switched from Nova to lawnchair about three days ago and I’m very happy with it.

lawnchair.app

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

trebuchet is good enough for me

DoucheBagMcSwag , (edited )

Missun Faiuled, we’ll giet 'm neaxut tiume

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.

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.

BlackLaZoR ,
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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

yuuunikki ,

I mean I’m still gonna use nova launcher

Snapz ,

Seems you probably still do a lot of things you shouldn’t, and then openly boast unprompted as a badge of honor as if anyone cares, huh?

yuuunikki ,

You cared enough to reply to me

I_Miss_Daniel ,

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

ladel ,

There’s a bug on samsungs (I think) where the home screen interface freezes, and the only way to unfreeze it is to relaunch Nova. It’s super annoying. This probably means it will never be fixed.

grayhaze ,
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The quickest way to fix it is to lock and unlock your phone by pressing the power button twice, but not too close together or you launch the camera.

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.

Curious_Canid ,
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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.

Magister ,
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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

limerod ,

Yeah, I read about this on the Nova launcher discord community. I had already moved to Smart launcher in 2022, seeing the slow development speed and the branch buyout.

Still, seeing so many people being laid off was sad.

RippleEffect ,

It sucks that people are laid off but I’m not shocked. I can’t imagine the launcher raking in tons of cash. Maybe it does, but I wouldn’t expect it to. Honestly I’m surprised that nova wasn’t just a passion project by someone.

BlackEco ,
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Crap, I recently migrated to Nova because I was fed up with Action Launcher bugs and lack of development… If I knew I would not have bought a paid license

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