End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
Layoffs have reduced the Nova Launcher from twelve members to just a single one man team. What does this mean for the launcher's future?
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So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?
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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
18 0 ReplyNot open source, a little disappointed. I'll give it a try when it is
3 0 ReplyCan 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.
2 0 ReplyDo you mean the A-Z bar on the right of the drawer in Microsoft Launcher?
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