Nova Launcher, that is.

Can we crowd source a legal effort to force the contract to be honored?

Anyone have a comparable launcher that is still being developed?

So Branch reneged on their agreement? Super scummy.

I've been using Lawnchair ever since the buyout was announced. It's a downgrade from Nova tbh but it's good enough.

Ad company buys popular launcher -> promises its not going anywhere°> breaks promise

Who could have seen that coming? /s

Dang. I still haven't found a replacement that has features I use like pulling up on an icon giving different actions, the separate "work" tab in the app list for my pornwork profile apps, assigning apps to categories such as 'games', etc.

I'd love suggestions if anyone is using something feature full that they like

I've been using Niagara since the first stink of this was in the wind - price tag, yes, but I love it.

Any replacements? I'm looking for a traditional launcher that let's me put apps and widgets on screens, let's me choose the grid size, and which let's me set a search bar that is not chrome.

The minamalist ones or the ones with everything in a list aren't what I need.

Weird, launchers like this have such a small niche community already. I'm surprised they want to piss them off. Linux/nerds like us aren't well known for being forgiving.

I'm shocked and disappointed. But I also moved to kvaesitso when the ad company bought it.

This was bound to happen. Perhaps Barry can make a new launcher that replicates the Nova Experience.

the buying of it by the ad company was awful but there were never any open source fdroid launchers that were as good. kevin open sourcing it will hopefully help get a decent open source launcher going, hopefully!

This fucking sucks.... Nothing comes close to Nova and even when it was bought by that shit company I didn't switch because there simply is no good alternative....

First google killing sideloading, now no nova... Android is basically becoming Apple but shitter.

I've never owned an Apple device but I feel like I'm getting pushed to the brink.

Everything that has made Android awesome has been getting killed off.

I got Nova Premium on a sale and used it ever since, but I had some issues with it on an older phone with lower resources, so I switched to the default launcher (which was still cool btw, I could open the app drawer straight from the recents menu).After I got a new phone and went for Android 14 I discovered that the search bar in the app drawer of the default launcher opened the Google app instead of being a simple search screen with all the apps. Also, I couldn't have themed icons in the app drawer. So I tried Nova again and it didn't have these either.I took advantage of this and decided to try something that would not be based on AOSP, and Kvæsitso seems to be pretty much what I was looking for. My only problem is the fact that I cannot add more than one widget per row but that does make for a more minimalist setup tbh.

I'm looking for a launcher that can hide a folder under a typical icon. I love the swipe up to open the folder, or tap to open the app functionality from Nova. It looks nice but still has everything i commonly use just a swipe and tap away.

I've taken a quick look at Lawnchair, Kvaesitso, and KISS, but those don't seem to have that capability.

I guess you can keep using it? I don't think I noticed any new features lately anyways.

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I tried other Launchers mentioned like Niagara, MSFT, Octopii, Lawnchair. But, I want horizontal App Drawer and stability like NOVA. Nothing beats NOVA atm. that is shame

What's the opinions on pear launcher?

I totally thought this was about the PBS show.