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The end of Nova is confirmed (teslacoilapps.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mintiefresh@piefed.ca to c/android@lemdro.id
 

This was posted by Kevin Barry, the original developer and founder of Nova Launcher.

So long and thanks for all the fish

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 week ago

I got Nova Premium on a sale and used it ever since, but I had some issues with it on an older phone with lower resources, so I switched to the default launcher (which was still cool btw, I could open the app drawer straight from the recents menu).

After I got a new phone and went for Android 14 I discovered that the search bar in the app drawer of the default launcher opened the Google app instead of being a simple search screen with all the apps. Also, I couldn't have themed icons in the app drawer. So I tried Nova again and it didn't have these either.

I took advantage of this and decided to try something that would not be based on AOSP, and Kvæsitso seems to be pretty much what I was looking for. My only problem is the fact that I cannot add more than one widget per row but that does make for a more minimalist setup tbh.