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[–] taipan_snake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For a launcher, I've been using Neo Launcher (which is on IzzyOnDroid). It's not as feature full as Nova but it's pretty similar in spirit and style

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Neo Launcher looks like exactly what I want! Thank you!

IzzyOnDroid

I had seen this referenced a few times in the past couple of weeks but finally got off my butt to check it out. I always install F-Droid but never bothered with extra repos. I guess I'll need to add that to my setup playbook because I'm gonna need Neo on everything now :).

It'd be kind of nice if I could run Ansible on an Android device. Full root backups aren't quite the same thing since I really want to apply the settings to multiple devices, not just splat a disk image on top of things.

[–] Bebo@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use fdroid app on my phone. Can you please explain what is izzyondroid?

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its an additional repository (source) for apps. You can add extra repositories in F-Droid settings.

...or rather than waiting for apps to become available on F-Droid, download from Github etc & use Obtainium to let you know when app updates become available

[–] Bebo@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Learnt something new today.

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is the address for the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo

Here is a short video explaining Obtainium

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried Neo Launcher a couple of rimes in the last week specifically for the Neo Feed add on (like Google feed but user defined RSS instead of Google). Neo Feed is excellent but unfortunately Neo Launcher doesn't allow a scrolling dock, which ive used for years with Nova Launcher.

Anyone know of an open source launcher with an option to have a scrolling dock? Bonus points if its compatible with Neo Feed!