Nova launcher has been dead since it was sold to an ad company three years ago.
It’s not a real replacement but if you want to support open source stuff, fossify apps including the launcher. Users and support will get it improving faster. On F-Droid and google Play store
I’m pretty happy with the lawnchair nightly release
I switched over after the sale and have had no issues.
Neo Launcher has development stagnation, but otherwise it’s very feature close and an influx of users might get more dev attention.
I’ve been using Neo pretty much since Nova was sold to the ad company. I definitely wish it had more active development, but it’s been a good enough replacement for me.
It was the first launcher I found that also has the feature to set a folder to launch a specific app on single tap and show everything in the folder with a swipe up. I didn’t realize how much I relied on this with Nova until I tried other launchers that didn’t have it.
Oh wow, I started using neo recently as a Nova replacement and didn’t know it has this. Great news!
I feel the same way. I like folders but don’t want to see them. I’ll try Neo Launcher.
Nova was not the end-all-be-all of Android development. It had a lot of features and was highly customizable, sure, but there are many other launchers to pick from.
I like lawnchair.
Does any other launcher allow setting of custom swipe actions on home screen icons?
As far as I know, Action Launcher supports custom swipe actions, but it’s years since I tried it.
I’ll look into it, thanks.
Yes. This is not an exclusive feature.
It’s either gotten more common since I last explored or I was looking in the wrong places.
Thought all of them did
Lawnchair 15.Beta 1 has swipe left and swipe right.
Man I hope linux phone somehow rises through the ashes…not many places to find hope anymore
I’ve been using Octopi since yesterday and it seems really similar to Nova so far.
Same here. I really like it and bought the Premium version already to support the developer. It’s not on the same level of customization and not as feature rich as Nova, but it’s quite nice. And it’s under active development.
Meh. It’s been dead to me since it was sold off to an ad company years ago. It was novel and cool 10 years ago but today there are plenty of better alternatives and even default launchers have come a long way. OneUI + Good Lock has been more than enough for me on my phone and tab.
Another reason to stop being bound to Android.
