I really like the simple, stock - ish layout on my home screen, which rules out a few popular suggestions like Niagara.
- I liked Lawnchair, but development is dead. Even the new alpha hasn’t been updated in a year or more, and is missing features.
- Neo Launcher perhaps came close to being the most ideal, but it is buggy as hell and also hasn’t been updated in a year
- Nova is what I’m using now, but I hate that it does not remember the drawer groups for each app once they’re reinstalled. I work as an app tester and having to sort work apps manually every time drives me up the wall
Does anyone here have any suggestions?
Kvasaeito
No one is able to write the name right 😅. It’s Kvaesitso. I mean no bad. It’s pretty uncommon name. It just makes me smile to see it written wrong more often than right.
I actually gave this a go (or 6, over the past year) but it was a bit too radical for my taste
there was a thread here with the same topic: https://lemmy.ml/post/4933449
my suggestion: KISS
I’ve also been looking around but there are no good FOSS launchers currently.
I’m using Trebuchet (default Lineage launcher) with Launcher30 Lposed module. It’s simple, it’s very stock, no nonsense, just launcher.
Maybe I’m leaving myself hanging out, but I’m still using lawnchair because I like it! Perhaps worth using again?
I really like having a plain home screen that I can put widgets onto, so that leaves Niagara out
Sorry, I didn’t know lawnchair was related to Niagara.
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Pie Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher/
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Fast Draw https://www.f-droid.org/packages/peterfajdiga.fastdraw/
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Open Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.benny.openlauncher/
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Discreet Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetlauncher/
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I’ve been using neo launcher since nova was sold. What kind of bugs have you encountered?
Every UI setup change needs a launcher restart to take effect
I have had the chance to use it on a few different devices and ROMs. Been with it since before name change.
Performance, especially bugginess is highly variable. I don’t know if it’s the phone, the ROM, other apps, settings or what. Sometimes it is smooth and you forget its there. other times it is crashing every 5 mins, sometimes without being fully recoverable. Like on a certain set up my widgets would disappear when it crashed and widgets aren’t in the backup so you have to redo them from scratch.
If it doesn’t work on you current device just don’t give up on it and whenever you get a new one give it a spin again.
Neolauncher FTW
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
Do an image search for screenshots, the repo doesnt really do it justice.
On f droid.