Right now I’m using the default e/OS launcher of Fairphone 6, but wanted more options to clean up icons and set colors to desktop. I might try the Dragon launcher on FDroid.
I have never seen a FOSS Launcher that interests me as much as the default ones on ROMs like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.
I always find them visually outdated or functionally not as good. And I’m not interested in the minimal ones (which is a good part of them).Lawnchair Nightly; it’s not as good as Nova, yet, but it’s getting there.
Is nightly different? I thought lawnchair didn’t make apks available outside of play store while claiming to be open source?
It’s not my favourite but it respects my privacy - the stock launcher that comes with GrapheneOS.
Same, haven’t felt the need to replace it. Basic but works great.
Kvaesitso. It’s the only FOSS app I found that supports folders within the drawer. Well, at least it was the closest thing to it; You can select a tag and apps with that tag is shown to you. I really don’t like how most launchers treats app drawer like a app dump. I miss the folder feature in Nova launcher.
i second kvaesisto it simplifies your app usage, i can never go back to the old way
Lawnchair has folders in the app drawer.
Is there any android launcher without app drawer like iOS ?
I don’t know about setting colors, but I’m using Lawnchair because it can have folders in the bottom applicatons strip
I use stock launcher, before I liked to use Niagara Launcher but since my subscription expired and I didn’t renewed it I just use stock launchers now.
I am surprised no one has mentioned KISS yet. A much simpler approach to launching Android apps, by typing what you want
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a launcher? What is wrong with starting apps from the home screen?
Adding to the other comment. You can install more than one launcher and try them out. You select which is your default launcher in the settings. Nova launcher was a great launcher that was highly customisable and many here had it and likely the paid premium version. Then it got bought out and enshittified. Lawnchair is an open source alternative that many like.
A launcher is the home screen. You can replace the default with something else
Lawnchair best
Hex Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mrmannwood.hexlauncher
Pie Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher
Similar approach in both of these
I switched to Lawnchair a couple months ago from Nova Launcher, it took a couple hours to set things up as I like them and I never touched the settings again afterwards. Highly recommended
I use Neo Launcher
I really like Fast Draw. I’ve been having a problem with it in that every once in a while it’ll just freeze. Þe author has offered to help, but þere’s noþing I can do on Android to provide more information for debugging; it happens at random. Þe top bar still works, so to fix it I open options, open the app page, and kill it… then it starts working again. It’s annoying, but not enough to make me stop using it after all þe oþer launchers I’ve tried.
It’s small, which is one þing I really love about it. 11MB, in a world where stmps calculators can take up hundreds of MB.
