Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
www.androidpolice.com
Hopefully, this isn’t the end of an era for Android launchers

Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • redfellow@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There’s a system over at Nova Discord where we reply to polls about the new features, we’re basically guinea pigs trying out stuff Branch is going to push out via their deals with OEMs. That’s how I’ve understood it.

    There is no bytes being sent out with the beta, and replying in Discord is voluntary, obviously.

  • NullGator@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    On graphene, don’t feel like switching launchers again - just disabled all network access for nova launcher and its supporting apps… Thanks for the heads up!

  • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I greatly appreciate this

    I had no fucking clue for two years. How much longer would I have remained ignorant? Frightening.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, the weird thing is they haven’t actually done anything to the app yet. Looks like they’re just focusing on the next major release. The version that has been available in the store for the last 2 years hasn’t been fucked with.

  • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone know of any other launcher that let’s you change the icon of an app to whatever image you want in your gallery? Because i have gotten to really like that level of customization and nothing else I’ve found let’s me

      • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’ve now tried this, and while I could probably get used to it fairly easily, unless I’m missing something it doesn’t have the capability I was talking about, which is the ability to change apps to have custom icons, not just icons found in theme packs

        • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          lawnchair > settings > desktop > lock desktop ☜ make sure this is disabled

          then long press (touch?) an icon and choose customize (pencil). touch the icon on the new menu that comes up and you should have the option to choose “open photos”

          voilà

          • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Mine isn’t locked and all I see is icon packs, though I have found a way around it by making a custom pack using an app I found on f-droid

              • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                I was trying an older version, but sense you asked I switched to Version 14 Beta 2 today and still don’t see it, though i will go back and look through the settings

                • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  i had to factoryReset and installed lawnchair from fdroid and then i tried the Lawnchair.14.0.0.Beta on their official site too. On these versions, like you wrote, it’s not possible.

                  only lawnchair-2-0-2589 from Aurora store (on google play store) has that option 🤷

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    My favourite launcher is ADW1, but it’s extremely outdated now. ADW2 was nice too, but also stopped receiving updates.