Android treats third-party launchers poorly, but this survey could help - eviltoast

Third-party Android launchers often suffer from limitations and issues because of Android, but this user survey could help.

  • fishcurry509@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I thought Nova was going the way of dinosaurs (i.e. there’s only one developer left to support it).

    Edit to add: Unlikely that Google will do anything about it. What will users do - switch to iOS? Also, is it completely in Google’s hands, since stock launchers on third party devices such as OnePlus, Samsung, et al continue to work quite well.

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      2 months ago

      Nova is great, but you have to turn off auto-updates and use version 7.0.57 which is the last version before the rug pull.

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        5 days ago

        The v8 series has quite a few nifty upgrades which makes quite the value add over the v7 series.

        Further, i don’t think the lag issue is resolved in the v7 series.

        Curious though, why do u recommend the v7.0.57?

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          5 days ago

          Nova was acquired by a data analytics company. That’s the last build prior to the acquisition.