Nova Launcher Is No More: What Happened to the Iconic Android App
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Nova Launcher founder Kevin Barry confirmed that he has left the project after its acquisition by Branch, leaving Nova's future in doubt.
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So Branch straight up fucking lied about open sourcing it.

If they didn’t lie they wouldn’t have asked the founding developer to stop.

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Mozilla promised to open-source Pocket and they closed it without doing so also. It’s common. Google did open-source Pebble stuff a decade later, so it’s never too late!

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i wonder if they open source it after the end of Nova Launcher ngl

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Doesn’t sound like it. They said about the whole open source thing to get weary eyes off of branch for acquiring Nova Launcher…the owner called their public bluff

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