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Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by high_priest »

ezst wrote: post #181
breput wrote: post #63

I was a 10+ year long Nova Launcher user and knew this day was coming after the sale and layoffs[0][1]... This evening I at looked several replacement launchers, such as Lawnchair and even the stock Pixel launcher again, but Octopi Launcher[2] is the more modern, more refined Nova replacement that you are looking for. It was a very easy, natural transition process from Nova - all of the Nova features that I used were…

What seems to be missing from every alternative I've seen is the power offered by the combo Nova+Sesame. I really don't use my launcher as a navigation system. All it does for me is pop open a search box after a swipe so I can type the name of the app I want to use, the contact I want to text or call, etc. There seem to be other "search-first" launchers out there (KISS is one), but then they miss the amount of expect…

I use the Nova Launcher in exact same way as you. I've checked many alternatives and none are as polished as Nova.

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Post by BoppreH »

ssl-3 wrote: post #197
ssl-3 wrote: post #185

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That's similar functionality, but it's not a Shazam Now shortcut. I really don't want any widgets -- at all, ever. And I need labels -- remembering arbitrary iconography is a silly task when phonetic written language exists. Just a shortcut is fine. Or at least: It had been fine for nearly a decade. This, right here: This is what I want, and what I was using with Nova Launcher until late last night. https://www.andro…

As an unfortunate reply to myself, I'd like to ask a question to nobody in particular: Do y'all not use shortcuts? I think that they are pretty neat, and we've had them on Android since around version 7.1. And the reason I ask this is because when I Google up different combinations of nouns, verbs and word usements for my problem of Android shortcuts and Octipi Launcher, I fairly-consistently find my own recent comme…

A bit late, but maybe you'll see this reply.

I do use shortcuts, even with Octopi. WhatsApp has shortcuts to chat with specific contacts, and Termux has shortcuts to arbitrary snippets, and I love both. I mentioned the Shazam widget only because it seemed to have the exact same functionality, only lacking the label.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by ssl-3 »

BoppreH wrote: post #212
ssl-3 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an unfortunate reply to myself, I'd like to ask a question to nobody in particular: Do y'all not use shortcuts? I think that they are pretty neat, and we've had them on Android since around version 7.1. And the reason I ask this is because when I Google up different combinations of nouns, verbs and word usements for my problem of Android shortcuts and Octipi Launcher, I fairly-consistently find my own recent comme…

A bit late, but maybe you'll see this reply. I do use shortcuts, even with Octopi. WhatsApp has shortcuts to chat with specific contacts, and Termux has shortcuts to arbitrary snippets, and I love both. I mentioned the Shazam widget only because it seemed to have the exact same functionality, only lacking the label.

It's not the same, though.

A widget is a thing that runs. It's an active process with a channel to create its own on-screen display, and the mere existence of it consumes non-zero CPU even if never invoked.

A shortcut is more like an icon on a Windows desktop, or perhaps a unix symlink. If it is never used, then it never really does anything at all.

Anyhow, Octopi. It does support shortcuts, but it seems like there's two different pathways for them and they do not work the same at all.

One pathway: Long-press the wallpaper and there's a list of them a tap or two away for some apps and it's easy to add them to the home screen. Home Assistant is in this list, but Shazam is not.

The other pathway: Long-press an app icon and a list of named shortcuts may appear. These are impossible to link to a home screen icon. And the per-app behavior is opposite: Long-pressing Home Assistant does not present this list, while long-pressing Shazam does.

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Post by itsTyrion »

prmoustache wrote: post #124
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #122

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And yet somehow my launcher updated automatically during the night, despite the change in ownership and new permissions needed. Thanks, Google.

One of the reason I don't use the playstore.

One of the reasons I don't auto update stuff
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