To be fair, as both an iOS and Android user, the way android moves icons around drives me crazy , I much prefer the iOS “shift everything down” approach
Counterpoint: green bubbles.
Oh you mean that other completely artificial limitation that Apple insists on having in their os?
Counter counterpoint: no one cares what color the bubbles are, except the person reading em. Sounds like an iOS problem 😉
I thought this shit was a meme till I started texting someone yesterday to arrange a date, she said “you don’t have iPhone?”…
I don’t text until we’ve had sex the first time as a rule, I show them my tiny penis and while they’re in shock I let them know about my android too.
Do people not realize how vain and materialistic that makes them sound? As if iPhone ownership is the pinnacle of wealth or whatever
I knew a pretty well off dude who used a flip-phone…in 2018. If he wanted to do computer-type stuff, he just used a computer.
Looking at iOS innovations going in android direction, they gonna make iphone with green bubbles someday and present it as amazing innovation, bet they even make you pay for subscription to make your bubbles green
A part of Apple’s Going Green initiative, for $99.99 weekly you can show everyone how green you are.
Tbh the default launchers for mobile are garbage. Scrolling around looking for icons on a desktop like environment is not intuitive. Everyone’s home screens just become a junk drawer of every app they’ve ever downloaded.
They can rip Niagara launcher from my cold dead hands I’m never going back to icon panels
I can’t seem to find info on it other than a few screenshots on the play store. Do you choose the home screen apps or are they auto-selected?
My launcher of choice right now is KISS which looks similar by default but I can’t tell if they function the same. Anyone tried both KISS and Niagara?
I just installed KISS to check it out, this is really nice too! I think niagara has a couple more bells and whistles, but it also could be I’m unfamiliar.
- sliding across app for quick select actions is missing, haven’t figured out how to access these yet (ie to jump directly into composing an email or text)(See edit 2)
- inline notifications is a big difference standing out for me, I still need to use the notification bar?
- KISS seems very focused on their search bar which is feeling like a bit more typing. I can tap the circle for an app list but it’s on the far side of the phone? (See edit 1)
- Niagara tries to be smart enough to bring apps you’ll want to the front homepage, when youll need it. ie connecting to Bluetooth headphones pushes my Spotify to the top. I know KISS doesn’t know my habits, but it seems simpler based on history of launches.
- niagara relies on more gestures and swipes
- KISS adding contacts to the home screen is a neat approach, people centric design is good
Overall It’s small details though functionallly they seem very close to me. KISS still great and I love it’s FOSS. They’re doing a solid job of a simple, get stuff done launcher. I don’t want to sound like I’m shilling, but Niagara has a free version you could evaluate for yourself
Edit: hmm after digging through the settings I see KISS supports a gesture for opening the app list - however none of the gestures are functional on my s23. Strange…
Edit2: Ah ha! Quick actions are available from the search, and add themselves to the history. I don’t love having visible duplicates but it’s workable.
Mine looks very similar, but I use Before Launcher. Which launcher is that?
It’s called Blank.
I use it to make my phone less appealing and thus waste less time on it.
Not sure if it works the same, but it seems to create shortcuts to open the apps when you click the text.
Well damn, guess I’ll switch over now.
That was the last thing holding you back? No criticism, just genuinely curious.
I they didn’t need Steve jobs to think for them they wouldn’t have bought Apple.
