Layoffs have reduced the Nova Launcher from twelve members to just a single one man team. What does this mean for the launcher's future?

So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?

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I have tried Kvaesito, Niagara, Nova, Kiss and Lawnchair(and forks), personally I prefer Lawnchair because it it the most standard regarding workflow and has all if not most features one would want in a launcher. Plus the fact it is fully FOSS and supports Arcticons. If you have a small number of apps you typically launch then Kiss or Niagara(Paid Pro version recommended) would work nicely.

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1+ for Lawnchair! It’s virtually the only launcher that supports gesture navigation without a weird delay or issues

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Where is Lawnchair? It’s not on F-droid and the Google Play store says Lawnchair 2 is for an older os (I’m on 14).

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Add Izzy’s on Droid Repo to Fdroid. It is there. Or download it directly from Github, the latest release(v14) are the Beta 1, Beta 2 and the Nightly Version.

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I use LawnchairRelease, a fork of one of the devs from Lawnchair. You can also use the original Lawnchair Launcher

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Sounds great but is it true it won’t allow custom icons?

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What will not allow custom icons? All of them support custom icons. What do you mean?

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Another review of it claimed it couldn’t but I’ll give it a try. Thanks.

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