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alex_herrero For what it's worth, I just updated to 8.0.14 (beta channel) and I didn't have to reapply the prime license.
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Personnaly, I use unlauncher (I tried Nova, Kiss and Niagara), reproduct a dumphone interface very well, satisfied overall.
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Murcielago clean launchers are nice, but only a small fraction of people is willing to put up with non-existence of widgets and shortcuts and thererefore most don't use them.
I agree with that. I finally changed the Laumcher because I love shortcuts. But I always like to switch to Olauncher from time to time.
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Finally, Lawnchair published its new version as beta: https://lawnchair.app/blog/lawnchair-14/ It works well for me, so I recommend trying it out if you like a pixel like launcher.
Michiel Thanks for the info.
I was using / testing with the unofficial v14 beta builds from https://github.com/Goooler/LawnchairRelease, but had to much issues. I'll give Lawnchair a new chance somewhen, maybe, but there were too much show stoppers to me.
Whenever I try to install it says installation failed because package appears to be invalid
E24 They changed the package name (see https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases), so that may be the cause of the installation failure. I deleted the old version, rebooted the phone and then I could install the beta.
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lz-numn-rnn I will just say that lawnchair isn't fully open source and requires some proprietary blobs and stuff to work librechair addresses this if you are curious
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Guysinhowr librechair
Something to try, thanks for mentioning it.
Lawnchair still not working properly on my phone, black screens now and then, as usual.
I'm am using OpenLauncher (it's like lawnchair but without the google stuff) from fdroid on my P7
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TRInvictus
Did you try librechair? Would be interesting to hear on the state of the art.
Are there real alternatives in 2025 sufficient enough to replace the main one? from what I've read in here Lawnchair,Neo but Libre the most sounded like something to possibly look at.
Unfortunately couldn't find Librechair in Accrescent.
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Last release - May 16, 2020
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Any launcher recommendations which support Private Space for someone who likes KISS and Neo-Launcher (unfortunately, neither currently supports Private Space)?
Lawnchair 15 nightly supports Private Space.
Also, Smart Launcher. Not FOSS but you can deny it Network permissions.
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Lawnchair 15 nightly supports Private Space.
Although Lawnchair is often mentioned and I have tested the launcher several times - I personally never got used to it and have always uninstalled it.
So, Smart Launcher. Not FOSS but you can deny it network permissions.
Even though Smart Launcher may be good - I always try to support Open Source projects.
Thanks for your quick reply though!
It feels weird to answer my own question, but I found a great launcher which i wanted to share:
I actually had installed it weeks ago and liked it. I just overlooked the fact that it already had Private Space implemented and therefore uninstalled it (facepalm).
I particularly like the following things:
- FOSS
- minimalistic and distraction free design
- available via Accrescent (also Github and F-Droid)
- Feels like dozens of gesture controls are possible
The only thing I'm still missing is an export option for the launcher configuration.
Until now i can highly recommended it!
Note: I am in no way affiliated with the Launcher project.
Good news, March QPR2 fixed the swipe to home animation in third party launchers.
https://www.androidauthority.com/third-party-launchers-pixel-march-2025-update-3532367/
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job_shredder69 Hell yeah. Any idea how long this would take to get to Graphene?
grOSLife It's been live.