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Just wondering what launcher everyone is using. I like how smooth the stock Pixel launcher is on it but drives me nuts that I cant mess with grid size or have pull down notification panel from anywhere like on Nova. When I use Nova it doesnt seem as smooth to me almost like it stutters when I go to Google Now or opening and closing apps. Never has done it before on any other phone besides this one. Just wondering what everyone is using and if there are other options that have that pull down option. I know i can use the fingerprint scanner to pull down on Pixel but it doesnt feel natural to me after so many years with Nova.
Nova prime had been my launcher for the last 5 phones!!
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Nova prime had been my launcher for the last 5 phones!!
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Yeah I've had it I dunno how many years and that's what is weird why it stutters on this one of all the phones I've had.
Also been using Nova Prime for a long time on numerous device's!
Nova prime since first Nexus phone, every year new one, now pixel 2 xl, never failed on me.
Another loyal Nova user here. The amount of custom features is worth it
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Been using Google now launcher for a while with xgels module (RIP) then switched to Nova prime until I got my phone and now rocking DU rom with GNL hider module and it's working flawlessly.
Nova prime FTW!
Always, Nova Prime
Apex Launcher has all the same features as Nova, but I don't think it has the Google feed integrated.
The Microsoft Launcher has a fresh take that is also visually appealing.
And finally, Evie Launcher is worth checking out. It's not as feature packed but it's growing every week.
CyberpodS2 said:
Nova prime had been my launcher for the last 5 phones!!
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+1111111 best money you'll spend!
Gilley said:
Yeah I've had it I dunno how many years and that's what is weird why it stutters on this one of all the phones I've had.
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I think this is my 4th device with Nova Prime and of all the issues on all those devices, Nova was never, ever a problem.
Leads me to think might be something else, since you're the first user I've heard on this device having a problem with Nova, and with so many people using it, if there were an issue with Nova itself, surely more people would have it as well.
You running Xposed or something that could be messing with it?
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+1111111 best money you'll spend!
I think this is my 4th device with Nova Prime and of all the issues on all those devices, Nova was never, ever a problem.
Leads me to think might be something else, since you're the first user I've heard on this device having a problem with Nova, and with so many people using it, if there were an issue with Nova itself, surely more people would have it as well.
You running Xposed or something that could be messing with it?
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Nope I am completely stock not rooted. I had the one options in developer turned to .5 for animations and turned it back and didn't see any real change. And by stutter I don't mean like horrible can't stand it. It's just like a tiny tiny hiccup of movement. I love the phone and it's not big deal to me because I like Nova that much just was curious to see if anyone else had the problem and or use another launcher that I could try out and see. I tried lawnchair and it seems smooth when it doesn't crash on me. That is more annoying then the small stutter on Nova.
My 5th device with Nova Prime! ?
Nova Prime since my S4 days ????
Google pixel launcher.
Works fine.
What will nova launcher do better?
luigidk said:
Google pixel launcher.
Works fine.
What will nova launcher do better?
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Read my post. I said what I liked about Nova over the stock one.
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Nope I am completely stock not rooted. I had the one options in developer turned to .5 for animations and turned it back and didn't see any real change. And by stutter I don't mean like horrible can't stand it. It's just like a tiny tiny hiccup of movement. I love the phone and it's not big deal to me because I like Nova that much just was curious to see if anyone else had the problem and or use another launcher that I could try out and see. I tried lawnchair and it seems smooth when it doesn't crash on me. That is more annoying then the small stutter on Nova.
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Did you give lawnchair access to storage? It crashed pretty frequently on me too until i did this.:good:
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Did you give lawnchair access to storage? It crashed pretty frequently on me too until i did this.:good:
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Yea it has access to everything. I emailed the developer yesterday but haven't heard back
I've been using Flick Launcher Pro for the past week and although it's in development, it shows a ton of upside. Nova is a more polished as it stands right now but Flick will get better with time. Flick gives you all the goodness of stock plus a lot of extra customizations.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.universallauncher.flicklauncherpro
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I've been using Flick Launcher Pro for the past week and although it's in development, it shows a ton of upside. Nova is a more polished as it stands right now but Flick will get better with time. Flick gives you all the goodness of stock plus a lot of extra customizations.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.universallauncher.flicklauncherpro
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I love trying new launchers that rethink how we should interact with our phones. Nova is great, but it's just more if the same old launcher UI that hasn't evolved much since the early days of Android. Thanks for the non-Nova suggestion!
Even though I'm a current Nova user on my P2 XL, I'm wondering if there are any Microsoft Launcher users out there
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Even though I'm a current Nova user on my P2 XL, I'm wondering if there are any Microsoft Launcher users out there
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I'm sure there are....but out of curiosity, why do you care?
Just wondering if it was any good
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Just wondering if it was any good
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Gotcha.
Why not try it yourself? I do that every so often but always find my way back to Nova as well. Although I'm using the pixel launcher now until Nova fixes the back button always showing bug.
I've used it in the past. It's very nice, but it pushes their ecosystem pretty heavily so it doesn't make sense to use it unless you're a big Microsoft services user.
I have been using it for about a year now, very happy with it. Was using it on an S7 edge, and now on the 2XL. No complaints at all with it.
For me, total launcher only is serving purpose for so long. Never such huge customization possible launcher on play store till date.
MS launcher used a while back to try but it was not at all stable at that time and it suddenly used to restart and all my customization disappear forever.
yesterday i found the 'Fluid navigation gestures' app and it's awesome it has almost perfect gestures like xiaomi's ones and if you have root or give access via adb (it will not trip the knox)
I think is the best app right now until Samsung releases a new gesture system!
if you liked the app let other people know!
you can find it on playstore!
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yesterday i found the 'Fluid navigation gestures' app and it's awesome it has almost perfect gestures like xiaomi's ones and if you have root or give access via adb (it will not trip the knox)
I think is the best app right now until Samsung releases a new gesture system!
if you liked the app let other people know!
you can find it on playstore!
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I also just found it around 2 days ago and guess what? Im currently running it now because who in the world would not love that all-screen estate? Navbars are hidden (with adb shell command) yet you can still navigate your phone. I've set mine like that of iPhone x's gestures and I'm really liking it.
In-app links and guides are pretty useful too because I'm a noob when it comes to adb shell, I know nothing yet I still manage to get it working. This app is still in its unreleased version but it is already so stable.
And ofcourse, to complement the iphone x gestures, I also have the ios 12 launcher together with samsung task changer.
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I also just found it around 2 days ago and guess what? Im currently running it now because who in the world would not love that all-screen estate? Navbars are hidden (with adb shell command) yet you can still navigate your phone. I've set mine like that of iPhone x's gestures and I'm really liking it.
In-app links and guides are pretty useful too because I'm a noob when it comes to adb shell, I know nothing yet I still manage to get it working. This app is still in its unreleased version but it is already so stable.
And ofcourse, to complement the iphone x gestures, I also have the ios 12 launcher together with samsung task changer.
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why you don't just buy an iPhone?
using such a launcher uses a lot of battery and makes the phone laggy
i recommend you to try the hyperion launcher or Niagara ones
dimitrispas22 said:
why you don't just buy an iPhone?
using such a launcher uses a lot of battery and makes the phone laggy
i recommend you to try the hyperion launcher or Niagara ones
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There's what we call "personal preference". I have many things I dont like in ios ecosystem.
And no, I dont get any lag nor any battery drain, besides, why would you recommend hyperion launcher while you just said launcher sucks
kyooohei08 said:
There's what we call "personal preference". I have many things I dont like in ios ecosystem.
And no, I dont get any lag nor any battery drain, besides, why would you recommend hyperion launcher while you just said launcher sucks
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Sorry
I didn't specified ... I mean nova launcher and thoose ones are fine, i never had a problem but other launchers like fake samsung launchers and ios ones from the app store
I downloaded a few on my old phones and i had bad experience like ads from knowhere, ram optimizer (actually killing all the apps and then the phone started lagging etc
(Most of the time on thoose launchers there is a ton of bloatware that makes the phone suck)at least on my experience
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Sorry
I didn't specified ... I mean nova launcher and thoose ones are fine, i never had a problem but other launchers like fake samsung launchers and ios ones from the app store
I downloaded a few on my old phones and i had bad experience like ads from knowhere, ram optimizer (actually killing all the apps and then the phone started lagging etc
(Most of the time on thoose launchers there is a ton of bloatware that makes the phone suck)at least on my experience
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Never conclude when you havent even tried them all, because there's always new launchers coming out. Never had those "bad experience" with my launcher.
Back to main topic now.
edit: it works now!
Thanks for that tip! Tried it, liked it, bought it. But even spending the money didn't make it the pro version it still shows the option to buy and doesn't allow me to use the pro features. Any suggestions? I wrote a mail to the developer but no reaction till now (I wrote the mail just a few hours ago so nothing to complain about that!).
dimitrispas22 said:
yesterday i found the 'Fluid navigation gestures' app and it's awesome it has almost perfect gestures like xiaomi's ones and if you have root or give access via adb (it will not trip the knox)
I think is the best app right now until Samsung releases a new gesture system!
if you liked the app let other people know!
you can find it on playstore!
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You just posted the same thing on reddit....
i like OnePlus Gesture app. i think it's the best one so far
This seemed like a shill .. but daamn aren't that some nice gestures!
The app seem to come from / be endorsed by the MIUI team https://en.miui.com/thread-4147804-1-1.html
I was looking for an app like this, it's perfect.
If I remember correctly, Havoc Oreo has a kind of this built in ( although it's less customizable )
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i like OnePlus Gesture app. i think it's the best one so far
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i agree. i've tried a lot of gestures apps and the problem with infinity display is that being curved sometimes makes you miss the back gesture (swipe from left or right) while with oneplus gesture u never miss one beacuse gestures come always from the bottom of the screen
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You just posted the same thing on reddit....
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Prove it?
Really, i did not posted anything about that on reddit?
That is my opinion because i had xiaomi device and i liked that future!
The app is great.
I had a Xiaomi Mi8 SE and I really missed the edge gestures it had. There are other edge gesture apps but this is the only one which adds those smexy animations like on MIUI.
I am probably missing something, but why don't you guys just use Samsung Good Lock?
There's "One Handed Mode" app enabling navigation gestures.
It has been featured on XDA, too.
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I am probably missing something, but why don't you guys just use Samsung Good Lock?
There's "One Handed Mode" app enabling navigation gestures.
It has been featured on XDA, too.
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Was about to say the same thing, much better than the ones mentioned here.
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Giocarro said:
I am probably missing something, but why don't you guys just use Samsung Good Lock?
There's "One Handed Mode" app enabling navigation gestures.
It has been featured on XDA, too.
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Doesn't work on pie and this is still better imo
dimitrispas22 said:
yesterday i found the 'Fluid navigation gestures' app and it's awesome it has almost perfect gestures like xiaomi's ones and if you have root or give access via adb (it will not trip the knox)
I think is the best app right now until Samsung releases a new gesture system!
if you liked the app let other people know!
you can find it on playstore!
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Been using it for 2 days & it's working flawlessly. Loving it
I like it but do you know how to show navbar while playing the game I just what to use the navbar for screen recording.
Thank you.
Just got one l the one UI 2 beta update and looking for a pixel 4 style launcher to try the new Google gestures. I can't stand the Samsung home. Anyone know il of any yet.
Nova Launcher works great.
Lawnchair 2 is what you are looking for, exactly like my Pixel 3 XL
But none of these support the new android 10 gestures.
Action launcher is only one I know that supports the new gestures.
zanoli99 said:
Action launcher is only one I know that supports the new gestures.
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Tried it, doesn't work.
Is there anything additional that needs to be downloaded??
As far as I remember, no launcher works with full gestures...unless you are rooted...
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As far as I remember, no launcher works with full gestures...unless you are rooted...
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I just came over from a Pixel 3 and third-party launchers worked fine with native Android 10 gestures (including Lawnchair). This is a Samsung limitation.
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I just came over from a Pixel 3 and third-party launchers worked fine with native Android 10 gestures (including Lawnchair). This is a Samsung limitation.
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It's a limitation of how long it takes OEMs to update. The pixel update for older devices didn't drop until the beginning of December. It's still an issue caused by Google's source, we are just waiting for the update that fixes it now.
Anyone tried Nova and One hand operation (samsung store) together?
One hand operarion may work as a replacement for google gestures. Also is useful to lock screen using a gesture
guachine said:
Anyone tried Nova and One hand operation (samsung store) together?
One hand operarion may work as a replacement for google gestures. Also is useful to lock screen using a gesture
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One hand and any launcher has always worked. You don't get the animation like you would on the new gestures though.
Frankly one hand has always been better but I also think a lot of people:
1. Get on the Android hype train and think "no one can do anything better than Google's implementation"
2. Are over whelmed by configuring one hand op
3. Think it's a replacement for one hand mode that makes the screen small and never bothered
4. Simply don't know about it or have good lock apps in their country
A few honorable mentions, the people that used it early on and didn't know you could make the gesture area invisible so they stopped using it and the folks that think it's too slow or not smooth.
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One hand and any launcher has always worked. You don't get the animation like you would on the new gestures though.
Frankly one hand has always been better but I also think a lot of people:
1. Get on the Android hype train and think "no one can do anything better than Google's implementation"
2. Are over whelmed by configuring one hand op
3. Think it's a replacement for one hand mode that makes the screen small and never bothered
4. Simply don't know about it or have good lock apps in their country
A few honorable mentions, the people that used it early on and didn't know you could make the gesture area invisible so they stopped using it and the folks that think it's too slow or not smooth.
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It's not really the same, specially coming from other brands that have Android gestures working how it's supposed to be.
FCORivers said:
It's not really the same, specially coming from other brands that have Android gestures working how it's supposed to be.
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I don't think I said they were the same.
pcriz said:
It's a limitation of how long it takes OEMs to update. The pixel update for older devices didn't drop until the beginning of December. It's still an issue caused by Google's source, we are just waiting for the update that fixes it now.
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How come the gestures work on non-rooted OnePlus and Xiaomi phones running Nova?
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How come the gestures work on non-rooted OnePlus and Xiaomi phones running Nova?
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Because it's a completely different phone...
The fix hasn't been implemented yet on Samsung phones.
You ask that as if every oem holds hands and updates their software at the same time. Or as if it wasn't broken on the first phone to have Android 10 on it..
It was certainly broken and a fixed needed to be made for it, as far as why Samsung hasn't implemented it yet? I think that is a question for Sammy.
I have used one in the past called PixelizeD it's in the theme store I'm pretty sure it works just fine on both Android 9 and 10.
It's just a theme not a launcher but it gives you a pretty nice home screen.
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Tried it, doesn't work.
Is there anything additional that needs to be downloaded??
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You need to execute this adb command:
adb shell cmd overlay enable com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural
OneUI2 is disabling this feature. Not the launcher.
Third party launchers like Lawnchair only "support" the full screen gestures, but they've not properly optimized it. You will get weird animations.
Title says it all ... I had already reported this in another thread somewhere ...
However, I was not aware that this is actually a Google issue, explained here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1018524&p=6907317&viewfull=1#post6907317 or
Nova Launcher
The premier custom launcher for Android, loved by over 50 million.
novalauncher.com
Many of you probably knew this, I did not ...
Still, I used Nova on OnePlus 8 pro as well and there such issues were NOT present.
Anyway, looks like we'll just have to accept it.
I've not experienced these issues on my P6P. I'm trying it now and Chrome and Pocket Casts seem to open up immediately. Same with the other listed issues: Clear All is there, and the animations look just a fluid.
Nova is working fine on my P6P, i can return to the home screen and open something else instantly.
Gestures have worked fine with Nova for some time, they worked from the off on my Pixel 5 and that was in October 2020.
Use quickswitch
GitHub - skittles9823/QuickSwitch
Contribute to skittles9823/QuickSwitch development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I know the delay you're referring to, it's certainly a minor annoyance but not enough of a deal breaker for me to no longer use Nova - the benefits outweigh such a con!
I'm intrigued by QuickSwitch but see Nova isn't supported so unsure if this would even be able to help?
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I know the delay you're referring to, it's certainly a minor annoyance but not enough of a deal breaker for me to no longer use Nova - the benefits outweigh such a con!
I'm intrigued by QuickSwitch but see Nova isn't supported so unsure if this would even be able to help?
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Ah sorry I wasn't paying attention. I know I had/have the delay with lawnchair and this always fixes it. Think it's something to do with recents.
No worries
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Ah sorry I wasn't paying attention. I know I had/have the delay with lawnchair and this always fixes it. Think it's something to do with recents.
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No worries at all!
I'd stick with the pixel launcher mods but I like being able to rename honescreen apps/folders....
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Title says it all ... I had already reported this in another thread somewhere ...
However, I was not aware that this is actually a Google issue, explained here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1018524&p=6907317&viewfull=1#post6907317 or
Nova Launcher
The premier custom launcher for Android, loved by over 50 million.
novalauncher.com
Many of you probably knew this, I did not ...
Still, I used Nova on OnePlus 8 pro as well and there such issues were NOT present.
Anyway, looks like we'll just have to accept it.
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Are you using the latest beta build of NOVA Launcher? As of this writing, that would be 7.0.54.
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Are you using the latest beta build of NOVA Launcher? As of this writing, that would be 7.0.54.
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Yes ... version 7.0.54 ...