Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
www.androidpolice.com
Hopefully, this isn’t the end of an era for Android launchers

Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I greatly appreciate this

    I had no fucking clue for two years. How much longer would I have remained ignorant? Frightening.

  • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    Does anyone know of any other launcher that let’s you change the icon of an app to whatever image you want in your gallery? Because i have gotten to really like that level of customization and nothing else I’ve found let’s me

      • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I’ve now tried this, and while I could probably get used to it fairly easily, unless I’m missing something it doesn’t have the capability I was talking about, which is the ability to change apps to have custom icons, not just icons found in theme packs

        • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          lawnchair > settings > desktop > lock desktop ☜ make sure this is disabled

          then long press (touch?) an icon and choose customize (pencil). touch the icon on the new menu that comes up and you should have the option to choose “open photos”

          voilà

          • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            Mine isn’t locked and all I see is icon packs, though I have found a way around it by making a custom pack using an app I found on f-droid

              • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
                0·
                6 months ago

                I was trying an older version, but sense you asked I switched to Version 14 Beta 2 today and still don’t see it, though i will go back and look through the settings

                • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  i had to factoryReset and installed lawnchair from fdroid and then i tried the Lawnchair.14.0.0.Beta on their official site too. On these versions, like you wrote, it’s not possible.

                  only lawnchair-2-0-2589 from Aurora store (on google play store) has that option 🤷

  • redfellow@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    There’s a system over at Nova Discord where we reply to polls about the new features, we’re basically guinea pigs trying out stuff Branch is going to push out via their deals with OEMs. That’s how I’ve understood it.

    There is no bytes being sent out with the beta, and replying in Discord is voluntary, obviously.