i understand wsnting your launcher open source but i have no launcher that makes me want to leave the microsoft launcher
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Thank you for this, didn't know about Grace Launcher
If it's older than android 12 it might be safe. I'm still riding a 9.
What about Hyperion? I have been using it for years so I'm wondering what the diff is.
Why are you here then?
It does not brick your phone. It causes problems with cellular features.
There are only bad reasons for the bootloader to not be user-unlockable from the start.
I own a lifetime license of Niagara and Grace is my daily driver. So many small things just make it a much better user experience for me. The Niagara developers feel like they lost touch with the community. They added a feature which then became a stock feature in Android, so that was just bad luck, but then they obsessed over themes and didn't add any new features or attempt to fix persistent bugs. Even their flagship feature, Anycons, they refuse to add new app icons or improve the algorithm, so it's like what's the point. And not to mention the absolute trash concept which is limiting the amount of devices you can install it on.
What? Since when? I have never heard of the same phone having different support windows in different regions. How would that even work? You go on holiday with your old phone and suddenly get several years of security updates when you're in a different country?
TL;DR: I've used all 3 and prefer Grace Launcher over Victoria and Niagara.
I ran Victoria for a few weeks and it never did feel quite right. I had Grace launcher installed just to keep up with development alongside Victoria.
At first I really wanted to make Victoria work because it really felt like a fresh take on the Niagara style launcher, while Grace felt like a Niagara clone. Eventually, Victoria had an update that broke things for me and I switched to Grace full time. Grace seems to have found its own personality while still feeling familiar.
Grace offers a better experience than Niagara's free version without a doubt, and Niagara's paid version is too much and too costly now.
Complete tangent, because the OP of this comment thread is a joke anyway, but my boss is in the first group. This guy may own a smartphone but it lives in a drawer, I'm sure. Like, he has never once just scrolled on his phone to kill time, no way. He might have sent one text message in his entire life. And this guy is only a couple years older than me, under 50. Some people just live in a different world. He and I both live in Illinois, just so you know it's not some third world country. Well, not yet anyways.
No. Has to be enforced by each country/region.
Victoria Launcher has barely been my home screen for five days, but Iβve already seen eight updates.
No thanks. I want my launcher to be stable - I don't want to learn a new way of doing things every day. Nothing against new features, improvements and even experiments, but the core needs to be stable.
Don't most phones get security updates for like 7 years now?
Because it's better than Apple
And no nobody "buys android", it's free
It's free, open-source, and just a little chaotic.
Chaos is exactly what I'm looking for in something I have to use a multitude of times daily.
Alternatives include:
- No smartphone. Eccentric, comes with significant practical and social costs.
- Desktop-style Linux (PostmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, others). Most hardware is barely usable or unusable. Few desktop apps are optimized for touch on a phone-sized screen.
- iOS. Apps can't exist without permission from Apple. Even in jurisdictions that forced them to allow other app stores, notarization is mandatory and they can withhold it.
All of those are bigger problems than the mild crappiness of Android.
Fucking manufacturers should be forced to unlock the bootloader once they stop supporting a phone
I'm stuck on an old version of Android. I guess I'm getting a new phone when I get that text.
This was apparently already patched in AOSP in October and if you use GrapheneOS and opted into security preview updates, you're already covered.
Yes, it had the weird symbol that would crash the phone if somebody sent it to you. That was 2024 https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/21/crash-iphone-by-typing-these-letters/
Or that weird image that would also crash the phone. Not sure the year of that.
Sure, because iOS never had this same vulnerability π€£
Because the only usable alternative is worse.
On of my phones has android 8 and I honestly couldn't care less from a usage standpoint