Right now I'm using the default e/OS launcher of Fairphone 6, but wanted more options to clean up icons and set colors to desktop. I might try the Dragon launcher on FDroid.

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[–] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Kvaesitso. It's the only FOSS app I found that supports folders within the drawer. Well, at least it was the closest thing to it; You can select a tag and apps with that tag is shown to you. I really don't like how most launchers treats app drawer like a app dump. I miss the folder feature in Nova launcher.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Lawnchair has folders in the app drawer.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    I don't know about setting colors, but I'm using Lawnchair because it can have folders in the bottom applicatons strip

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's not my favourite but it respects my privacy - the stock launcher that comes with GrapheneOS.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Excuse my ignorance, but what is a launcher? What is wrong with starting apps from the home screen?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Adding to the other comment. You can install more than one launcher and try them out. You select which is your default launcher in the settings. Nova launcher was a great launcher that was highly customisable and many here had it and likely the paid premium version. Then it got bought out and enshittified. Lawnchair is an open source alternative that many like.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I have never seen a FOSS Launcher that interests me as much as the default ones on ROMs like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.
    I always find them visually outdated or functionally not as good. And I'm not interested in the minimal ones (which is a good part of them).

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I use Neo Launcher

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I am surprised no one has mentioned KISS yet. A much simpler approach to launching Android apps, by typing what you want

    https://github.com/Neamar/KISS

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Lawnchair. Anyone knows something like this but with categories?

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    Is nightly different? I thought lawnchair didn't make apks available outside of play store while claiming to be open source?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's available on F-droid through the Izzy repo

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah i saw it's releasing some updates. But it's the old version that lacks quite a few features compared to v2. And v2 is not open source.

    But I thought v1 was dead, good to see active development on it.

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    Not sure what the deal with a v2 is, as far I can find I have the latest version (15 beta 2). Can't find any reference to a separate version, beside a dead github page for v1 and a second website that appears to be an older version of the app.

    I downloaded the play store version, and it was the same version number as Izzy. At a quick glance it looked the same.

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/app.lawnchair

    https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Happy with Fossify Launcher replacing the auto-arranging stock launcher.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Out there opinion but I really like all of the simple text launchers In no particular order : Cclauncher https://f-droid.org/packages/app.cclauncher/

    Clauncher https://f-droid.org/packages/app.clauncher/

    Multi launcher https://f-droid.org/packages/app.mlauncher/

    T-UI https://f-droid.org/packages/ohi.andre.consolelauncher/

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Old lawnchair at the moment, have not made the switch to the new lawnchair.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    i'm still on old lawnchair (legacy?) because it's more customizable than the up to date lawnchair

    i keep an eye on eblan einstein as a replacement for lawnchair ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.eblan.launcher/

    i also use drag on launcher because it's genial ☞ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.elnix.dragonlauncher

    all these with arcticons https://f-droid.org/packages/com.donnnno.arcticons/ and some abstract icons i made

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    Is there any android launcher without app drawer like iOS ?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I use Yantra Launcher...but it has no icons

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    Kvaesitso. It's a bit weird, but I like weird.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    ADW Launcher Ex 1.. not foss but it just worked for me for the last 10+ years

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I really like Fast Draw. I've been having a problem with it in that every once in a while it'll just freeze. Þe author has offered to help, but þere's noþing I can do on Android to provide more information for debugging; it happens at random. Þe top bar still works, so to fix it I open options, open the app page, and kill it... then it starts working again. It's annoying, but not enough to make me stop using it after all þe oþer launchers I've tried.

    It's small, which is one þing I really love about it. 11MB, in a world where stmps calculators can take up hundreds of MB.

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