I’ve been using android since 2007. Nova allowed me to stick with the old school UI paradigm of dock and app drawer… nova was so good, that i set up my homescreen in 2013 and basically never touched the settings again until i migrated a new phone…
All these new launchers break my 20 yr old workflow… i dont like the “everything is a search bar” thing
Same here. Been using Android since 2010. Currently running KISS for the last few months, but it doesn’t quite work with my muscle memory. I don’t want to type things to find them when I can just open the app drawer, or drop a shortcut on the desktop.
I feel the same. I like having my desktop with easy to reach commonly used apps, and a few widgets, such at a Google calendar widget and my keep notes. And I want all the things in the exact spot I put them, so I can build muscle memory to go where I want. The dock is not so necessary as long as I can have enough icons on the desktop. And then I want an app drawer, where I can divide it into tabs, one for regular apps and one for games.
The closest I could find are either:
Lawnchair launcher, but it’s missing the drawer tabs (it has folders though)
Pear Launcher, it has everything, but unfortunately it doesn’t remove the games from the main apps tab when I add them to a games tab…
Pear Launcher has them but calls them “App Groups”. But as I said, the missing piece is to hide them from the main tab when they have been added to another tab
@9488fcea02a9 hmm, didn’t lawnchair also have an app drawer and a dock? Or other similar launchers like Microsoft, action, hyperion etc.? There are plenty more AOSP based launchers in the Play Store.
None of these are a good replacement for nova.
I’ve been using android since 2007. Nova allowed me to stick with the old school UI paradigm of dock and app drawer… nova was so good, that i set up my homescreen in 2013 and basically never touched the settings again until i migrated a new phone…
All these new launchers break my 20 yr old workflow… i dont like the “everything is a search bar” thing
Same here. Been using Android since 2010. Currently running KISS for the last few months, but it doesn’t quite work with my muscle memory. I don’t want to type things to find them when I can just open the app drawer, or drop a shortcut on the desktop.
Huh lawn chair can remove all the search bars.
Lawnchair is great in many aspects, but it doesn’t play nice with PWAs.
I feel the same. I like having my desktop with easy to reach commonly used apps, and a few widgets, such at a Google calendar widget and my keep notes. And I want all the things in the exact spot I put them, so I can build muscle memory to go where I want. The dock is not so necessary as long as I can have enough icons on the desktop. And then I want an app drawer, where I can divide it into tabs, one for regular apps and one for games.
The closest I could find are either:
Lawnchair launcher, but it’s missing the drawer tabs (it has folders though)
Pear Launcher, it has everything, but unfortunately it doesn’t remove the games from the main apps tab when I add them to a games tab…
Drawer tabs is really what i want
Cant find any modern launcher with tabs
Pear Launcher has them but calls them “App Groups”. But as I said, the missing piece is to hide them from the main tab when they have been added to another tab
@9488fcea02a9 hmm, didn’t lawnchair also have an app drawer and a dock? Or other similar launchers like Microsoft, action, hyperion etc.? There are plenty more AOSP based launchers in the Play Store.
No tabs in the app drawer… just all your apps on one page and have to scroll all the way down to find wikipedia, for example
@9488fcea02a9 bummer. I was hoping one had an implementation like this.