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Steve ,

Nova is still my primary.
I just disable all its network and data permissions. It all still works just fine, and doesn’t have any way to send any data home.

I’ve tried most all the others, and always come back to Nova

hand ,
@hand@lemmy.studio avatar

Goodnight, sweet prince.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i’m still using nova (was a premium subscriber from before the sale) does anyone have anything compariable? mostly the ability to use legacy icons, scale the grid size, have multiple tabs and folders, hide icons, assign icons to multiple folders (and hopefully import nova launcher backups into a new place)?

i’m fine with google play though i’d love it if it was on fdroid or neo store.

sgnl ,

I replaced Nova with Kvaesitso and honestly its pretty awesome.

Its more limited than Nova was but it meets my use cases. The biggest adjustment was using labels to filter things instead of using folders, which I’ve actually come to like better.

But plenty of customizations for everything else you mentioned and more.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

hmm, as someone who was a long time del.icio.us user labels/tags sounds good

Moonrise2473 ,

It’s a subscription now? I paid $1 ten years ago or so

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i dont think its a subscription. you can download it anytime but they have nova prime which has additional features for a one time cost

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

trebuchet is good enough for me

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.

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

You might be interested in lawnchair. It’s open source and based off the Google launcher (AFAIK) but you can remove the search bar and other things.

The one on f-droid is two versions out of date. Latest one is from their website:

lawnchair.app

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!

mosiacmango ,

For anyone else:

Open the app on the play store click the “3 dot/hotdog” menu in the top right. You should be able to disable updates there.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

yikes good thinking does the same

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 )
@vanontom@lemmy.world avatar

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.

FurtiveFugitive ,

7.0.57. I’ve had no android issues with this version. I don’t feel like I’m missing any features by refusing to update.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

worse comes to worse someone writes a revanced patch to unlock premium

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

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

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

lawnchair.app

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.

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