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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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[–] communism@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

What's the appeal of all these alternative launchers? Stock launcher works fine and I've never felt like anything was missing. I'm a poweruser on PC but I can hardly think of anything I'd want to do with a phone along poweruser lines.

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Consistency between devices. Android isn't android, everyone mucks with it, especially Samsung.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I used Nova on all of my phones before I got a Pixel... The stock Android experience is decent enough that I haven't felt the need for a third party launcher yet.

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