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Nova Launcher Alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Confound4082@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lawnchair hasn't had a release since 2018. I find it to be a bit buggy and sometimes won't redraw the home screens. This makes me need to force close the launcher from the settings. I usually clear the cache too, just to be safe.

Just tempering expectations for anyone else looking at it. If anyone knows of a fork that is more recent let me know. Maybe someone else is maintaining somewhere.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They actually kept developing it, with the last release in August 2022, and, even though those releases were tagged as Alpha, I've only had some (not more than a couple times a year) freezes with crash of the launcher since. Tested on two different phones with two different ROMs

I don't know if there's still someone developing it, but until something else just as good (for me) pops up, I'm sticking to Lawnchair

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They are develeoping it, but it's slow because there are not as many people contributing as they would need to i think.

Anyways, if you want a more recent version, they are preparing an App store launch. One of the developers publishes more recent builds on his fork, see this comment.

https://github.com/Goooler/LawnchairRelease/releases

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Oh sweet! Thanks for the heads up! I was hoping to find a version 14 without having to figure out how to build it myself.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I took a peek into their telegram feed and it seems they're working on version 14.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very nice, thanks for the good news! I'll wait patiently for it to release

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying one of the Dev releases that was linked below. So far it's pretty stable. Not sure your tolerance for any issues that may arise.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's reassuring, for the stable release I mean!

At the moment I don't really feel the need to update it, I'll just wait for a bit longer. Thanks though!