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I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn't know why. I've been using it for over 10 years.
It sounds like a case of "buy it, kill it" which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.
Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?
I've been very Happy with Kvaesito which supports private space, but it's not a typical launcher format
It's not even the 6th yet! ...which tells me he's in Europe and that makes Nova a little cooler.
iPhone guy but of course I have Nova Prime on my backup phone. I wanna say I had a couple other apps he made, too? Tesla Coil sounds familiar. But it's been almost 10 years since an Android phone was my main phone.
So Nova should be usable for a few more years at least... but... what's everyone gonna replace it with? For what I use my S10 for, it should be good enough. I mainly need the launcher to support custom grid sizes, larger icons, and custom icons since my Android phone is a cosplay prop. (It's meant to look and act like the NookPhone from Animal Crossing. It's fully functional — you open Nook Music and it's Apple Music which I'm subscribed to, as long as it has WiFi it will play, and it has a lot of stuff downloaded. And of course the browser is Firefox with uBlock Origin — it's just Redd the fake art purveyor on a globe rather than the red panda we all know and love.)
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?
I enjoy Niagara launcher. The paid version is a bit pricey but the free tier is pretty solid as well.
I use KISS Launcher. Always fast, predictable and easy to find anything I want.
Try Kvaesitso its free and open source: https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
Amazing recommendation. I've used Nova for years, and while its different, Kvaesitso is stunning. So smooth, and it surfaces apps and actions I use all the time better than Nova.
The other Tesla Coil app I used was Widget Locker. Back in the days before Android had flashlight controls on the system tray, I had a lock screen shortcut for the flashlight.
