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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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[โ€“] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wanted to like lawn chair and gave them an honest try but so many features I have come to rely on weren't quite there.

I realize that they were designed as a replacement of pixel's launcher but still... I would have loved to keep using them.

I am now using a paid version of Smart Launcher and praying to God that they won't do what Nova did.

[โ€“] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not just designed, lawnchair is a fork of the AOSP launcher which is why they look so similar. It's also partially why they have a comparatively slow development cycle, because they spend a lot of effort rebasing whenever AOSP's launcher has significant changes.