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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 restingboredface to c/[email protected]

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So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've been working on a launcher for a while now, do help me test it out!

Features include:

Widget stacks (with auto scroll)
Swipe up and swipe down to launch different apps
Display app drawer icons as tiles or a list
Individually resize home screen icons, for mixed-size icon layouts
Freely position and resize a widget or icon
Frosted glass background for widgets (experimental)
App drawer folders
Fade a widget
Separate layouts for different screens for foldables
Tap a folder to launch its first app (swipe to open folder)
Assign a nickname to an app for instant app search and launch (e.g. searching "ff" launches Firefox instantly)
Lots of custom animations and haptics

Planned features include:

Profile switching with Tasker support
Square tiles for app drawer
Swipe to open a widget pop up

https://lemmy.world/post/14530643

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not open source, a little disappointed. I'll give it a try when it is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can you group the app drawer by letter so that I can immediately jump to 'S' to launch Sync for Lemmy? It's pretty much the entire reason I can't move away from Microsoft Launcher. I feel this is an essential feature, and I've tried basically every launcher I can find.

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

Do you mean the A-Z bar on the right of the drawer in Microsoft Launcher?