Nice surprise, I didn’t expect that
Anyone knows one that can do custom categories in drawer?
That’s one of my favorite features of Nova launcher, along with getting rid of the google assistant stuff and the google search bar.
Neo Launcher supports that, but has no new builds since 2022, though development is ongoing
Fossify is great. I replaced some stupid anti-privacy GApps with them.
I recommend Lawnchair. I’m currently using LineageOS so my launcher is trebuchet. Unfortunately los don’t package it separately.
Been using lawnchair for years but there’s some things I wish it had to make it perfect. Namely, I want to be able to sort the app drawer by most used.
I tried the latest beta version and the global search is quite buggy. Also doesnt have searxng support ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . But it looks good.
I think fossify launcher has more scope cause it can integrate all of it’s other applications like files, clock, calendar, etc.
Open source android is looking super neat rn.
It didn’t happen with SimpleMobileTools but it might happen with Fossify:
A Custom ROM that replaces the stock apps with this suite would be just a wonderful idea! I’d love to see this happen. If anyone wants to collaborate on such an idea, let me know.
They would need to fix the SMS app first (lots and lots of bugs, not the least of which is that it likes to split MMS group chats up into separate 1 on 1 threads with every single participant as soon as you reply to the group)
Thats a setting you can change, and not a bug but the intentional default behavior because MMS is much more expensive than SMS in many parts of the world
They actually did that with the SimplePhone. Last time I looked the pages were down but I know I archived them on the wayback machine.
They made lots of promises, including that a downloadable ROM would be available, the whole thing quickly crashed and burned.
Reddit had some pretty extensive threads about it. The whole thing seemed like a grift (it was) and convinced me to dump all their apps.
Anyway, if this is something you want to do you could check those threads, I know people linked to the phone they were using (from Alibaba) and the source code was on Codeberg iirc.
