I’ve been just not updating Nova as I haven’t had a ton of time to research this, I really like the GUI, what are my privacy friendly/FOSS options for an android s21 5G?
Update: Went with Neo launcher. It’s got enough of the features that I’m willing to use it.
There are a few spots where padding can’t be removed that is obnoxious, FF search bar and dock are what I have noticed so far.
I also don’t like that I can’t continuosly scroll through my home screens.
What is going on with Nova?
it now it’s under new management. Branch, a company that provides analytical data and metrics among other things, has acquired Nova Launcher.
Haha they don’t even have to try because normies doesn’t even care.
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I haven’t found one that I like as much. My biggest hangup, and this is probably dumb, is the ability to edit the icons for PWAs so they don’t show the stupid browser icon that screams “I’m a web shortcut!!!”. I tried Hermit as a PWA/lite app replacement and Android just slaps the hermit badge on it instead. For whatever reason that annoys me enough to stick with Nova.
I used trebuchet for my launcher, it’s a lineageos app but iirc there’s a downloader for it. It’s not super customizable but I like it
Once Nova got bought i tried Neo Launcher and it has been more than close enough for me, a year and a half later and i’m still using it
I really enjoy one called Discrete Launcher from fdroid. It’s meant to be pretty minimalistic and does not support widgets from what I can tell, but you swipe up from the bottom with one finger for AppDrower and swipe down with one finger for a favorite spar at the top. But neither are shown normally, just your wallpaper. You can also program swipe left to open an app swipe right to open an app and several other gesture actions to open things or do things
I never found one I liked as much tbh
It’s not popular at all, but I love LukeLauncher on fdroid.
