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Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. (lemmy.ml)
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After Working on it alone for a year, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher Kevin Barry has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. More Info: https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Neo Launcher.

It's great. The only downside is not having a release schedule. It had one or two annoying bugs in the past but nothing serious.

I didn't read anything about nova for the past years, I even forgot that it was a thing.

Edit: there has been no fdroid or github release since 2022. There are still commits in the repo but I don't know if the published version on telegram is the one from github. Does this make it closed source now?