I’ve been using the releases from github for a while, but this is a great step towards availability for many.
We really need to think about a better name than “Early access”. At this point I think I’ve used Lawnchair for about 5 years, 5 years after the initial event is only “early” in the context of geological eras.
To me this is a feels like a full blown release as I’ve been using the beta, alpha, the builds on a fork of one of the maintainers github fork, … All of them with very few issues.
The first version (or I guess second? It’s called V2) has been available on google play for many years as mentioned by @Jrockwar@feddit.uk but isn’t updated anymore. I have a Pixel 3a so still use it but this new one is not the first release or anything.
Why is it still not on F-Droid?
Also, for all the customization it can do, man those are some ugly and generic screenshots.
Not being a Debbie downer but what’s good/different about this launcher?
You can remove the Google search bar and replace it with the one of your choice.
That was honestly the only thing i needed from a launcher when i got my pixel 6a two years ago, but there is so much more to it as i later discovered. All the tweaking that is possible on top of the (very good) pixel launcher, which it was built upon but had this one flaw.
Feels somewhat close to the Pixel launcher, with icon packs support, with a couple of extra features and doesn’t belong to a company that is trying to monetize it to hell.
I still can’t believe Samsung now supports icon packs but pixel launcher still doesn’t
Isn’t it possible to install an icon pack and apply it to the launcher? Here’s an icon pack I use.
Dumb question, I’ve been using Nova launcher since forever but I think there was some drama recently about it being acquired. Is that the major difference between it and lawn chair?
How does it play with folding phones?
Last I checked, it didn’t allow additional widgets from apps, like tasker task shortcuts or firefox webapps. Quite disappointing as I’m heavily reliant on tasker and webapps like voyager that I’m using to access lemmy right now.
