Android treats third-party launchers poorly, but this survey could help

helpImTrappedOnline , 5 minutes ago

Survay is anonymous and takes 1-2 minutes.

~~Everyone fill it out, don’t care if your on iphone (its not like google cares about your privacy), just fill out the damn thing.

Don’t check everything, check a few random things to make it look legitimate.~~

Let’s all be honest and not fill the survay with bull-shit data that helps 3rd-prarty launchers, that would be imoral. Remember google’s old motto, don’t be evil.

CrayonRosary , 3 hours ago

I definitely had the big when double-tapping the app switcher on my Pixel 4a, but I never had that problem on my Pixel 7 Pro, nor this one:

For example, Google Pixel owners running alternative launcher apps can’t use the “select” feature seen in the Pixel Launcher’s recents menu, which allows users to select text and images in any app.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fd1a28b0-c633-4373-abdd-12cfed108c40.png

0xd34d , 9 hours ago (edited 9 hours ago)

Nigeria Launcher Nigeria Launcher 😲

clmbmb , 8 hours ago

Created by the prince.

Neon , 7 hours ago

Niagara Launcher, no?

How did this happen? Wasn’t android authority one of the good ones?

burgersc12 , 7 hours ago

I bet someone proof read it, but just didn’t catch this error

aido , 6 hours ago

I didn’t even catch it when I read the article

fishcurry509 , 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

I thought Nova was going the way of dinosaurs (i.e. there’s only one developer left to support it).

Edit to add: Unlikely that Google will do anything about it. What will users do - switch to iOS? Also, is it completely in Google’s hands, since stock launchers on third party devices such as OnePlus, Samsung, et al continue to work quite well.

Enkers , 6 hours ago

Nova is great, but you have to turn off auto-updates and use version 7.0.57 which is the last version before the rug pull.

osaerisxero , 8 hours ago

this user survey could help

Sigbs point to no