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End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Branch Metrics sucks. They fired almost of all people working for Nova.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neo Launcher is the way. FOSS with all the same features as Nova.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You're posting this brief message a lot, so I googled it, and, no releases since October 2022? Only on f droid and is there really no way to pay other than PayPal donations? Am I looking at the right neo launcher?

Development isn't dead, but the lack of releases and fees (one time purchase, please) don't give me confidence.

[–] timbuck2themoon 3 points 3 months ago

I moved to lawnchair 2 beta (or whatever it is.) I liked neo but the promised release just never came. I kept having it crash and it always took a few seconds to restart.

Lawnchair has been reliable though even for a beta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's FOSS. It's pretty normal for it to be a passion project or a community effort.

[–] ModerateImprovement 1 points 3 months ago

One time purchase?

It's a open source project, you can install it for free, but you could still donate.

As far as I can tell they are working on a new release.

Don't use it now, but you can follow their GitHub/ F-Droid to see when they get a new release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Dev seems close to next release, I put in a bug on searching with SearXNG and it was fixed the next day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And looks like alpha 1 hit the release page.