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
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
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.
Personally, the customisability without the effort. You get a hundred bells and whistles to make your phone look and feel unique, things that stock android should really provide but doesn’t.
People want to interact with their devices in ways that fall outside the blessed functions permitted by the corporate designed pattern deemed appropriate for them. If corporate UI works for you, that’s great for you, but it doesn’t for everyone.
I have no idea why you’re so confrontational. I asked a question. I never judged anyone for their preferences. Nobody seems to be able to have a normal conversation on the internet…
It wasn’t meant to be confrontational, sorry about that! I’m not judging anyone who is comfy with the stock experience, just saying that it’s not for everybody.
Aside from functionality, stock launchers are more often than not inperformant and battery hungry piles of crap.
I add an extra row and column of apps on the home screen, and make the icons bigger so there’s less space between. And bump up the text size since my eyes are getting older.
Consistency between devices. Android isn’t android, everyone mucks with it, especially Samsung.
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.
I’m with you, I never heard of nova launcher until now, and not sure why I would want it.