I plan to follow the model of Niagara and Nova launcher, but without recurring subscriptions and tracking. Closed beta testers will receive free codes to unlock the full version, so they get to enjoy all features they have now.
It will be priced very competitively, as it’s a personal project and I do not need to pay anyone else ;) Nova’s model before it’s bought over was great. i still recall being part of those who paid $0.10 for it. The Google group is how Google currently handles closed beta sign-ups, not very intuitive, I agree.
It will have a one-time in-app purchase, but I’m planning to give away free codes to closed beta testers. The free version will be ad-free and competitive, features-wise, with most free launchers.
Coincidentally I was working on this a few days back. Mapping actions (including search) is definitely on my to-do.
I may group the widget list for faster loading, my initial thought was to have something different from the standard, and that was why I went for a search-based approach. Good suggestion.
Which aspects do you feel the speed can be improved? Also to share that there’s an animation speed setting where you can make animations much faster or slower
As for settings, things like preview are planned ;)
Thanks for the screenshots. I may add an option to display a frequently launched/ pinned set of apps. As for finding recently installed/ updated apps, the sort modes above should be helpful.
Thanks for the report. Right here is actually fine to share feedback.
In terms of status bar and label colors, I’ll have to add in manual controls. Currently, things are handled by the system, which means different ways of displaying on old and new Android versions.
By bumping screen size, you adjusted the scale/ density of your screen items right? That’s one scenario I have not thought of. What you encountered is partly by design - the launcher detects a different screen and allows you to configure a new screen from scratch. I have plans to add a prompt to let users confirm if this is what they want, or if they want to copy over an existing layout.
I do have a long to-do list, mainly to bring this up to speed in terms of features. There are occasional reports of crashes which I’m also investigating
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Best Nova Launcher substitute?
I’m looking for something as close to Nova Launcher as possible.