End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone

restingboredface@sh.itjust.works to Android@lemmy.world – 468 points – End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
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So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?

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Lawnchair

I thought that's in perceptual pre release.

Idk, it is what it is, I've used it ever since Nova got kinda dumb like 5-6 years ago. Put it on every phone. It hides apps, keeps my phone looking clean. It's excellent.

Yea that's what i switched to after nova sold out, its alright gets the job done. Fuck Nova

I use Lawnchair as well because I require my launcher to be open source. The only thing is it is not on F-Droid or Playstore so it must be installed and updated manually. I have found it to be stable enough for my purposes.

EDIT: And after making the comment below I just noticed the date on the version is 2022? I'm going need to try out the latest version from their Git.

I use droidify because I like the look of it better. It comes with another repo enabled by default called IzzyOnDroid which has the Alpha versions of lawnchair.

I've been using it for years. It's great.

Oh nice, I'll check out droidify and IzzyOnDroid. To help me remember to update Lawnchair, I added the github release notes atom feed to my RSS reader and turned on notifications so I know every time a new release is ready to install and updating is just a few taps away. https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases.atom

Yea it could be more stable but its not that bad and I love that its open source