Seems cool on paper, but all that data is being farmed ~~out and sold~~. People are correct to worry in my opinion, while I was there I was essentially decompiling APKs from third party pirate sites so that internal tooling we built could inspect various indices to generate metadata maps which were used to drive contextual search inside installed applications. I used to work at Branch (I hadn’t heard of them at the time), supporting the team that this acquisition was likely driven by. What are your thoughts about the acquisition? Will you stick to Nova Launcher or jump ship to a different one?įrom user Horaticus on Reddit Android. Only time will tell if Nova Launcher remains as good as it is. A message that was posted on Lawnchair's Twitter account says that it is not stolen code, but just reverse engineered code from the Pixel Launcher (made by Google.) Make of that what you will, but it surely hasn't been a good day for launchers. Note: One of the developers of Lawnchair Launcher walked away from the app today, after claiming that another member of the team had been adding proprietary code from a different app to the open source app, without disclosing it. There are a few good ones available such as KISS Launcher, or one of the forks of Lawnchair Launcher like Neo Launcher (formerly Omega Launcher). I'm sure that users who don't like this bit of news will want to look for alternatives to Nova Launcher. A beta version of Nova 8 was released a few days ago, but I haven't tried it yet as I don't have a spare device to test it. If you want to backup the app, the current version is Nova Launcher 7.0.57. The fact that they say nothing is changing in terms of privacy likely means there will be no ads in the app. Based on the developer's words, Nova Launcher will remain as a premium app with a one-time payment to unlock the Pro version. It will have an opt-out option, i.e., the telemetry will be enabled by default. Nova Launcher will have other Branch-inspired features, the usage of which will be measured via analytics. They will continue to lead the development of Nova Launcher, so that's a positive sign. Kevin Barry, the creator of Nova Launcher, and Cliff Wade, the Community Manager for the app, along with Steve Blackwell and Phil Wall of Sesame Search, have been hired by Branch.
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