I’m on one of the last versions from before the acquisition (8.1.1) and intend to use it for as long as I can while searching for alternatives. Thankfully my Prime key still works (email one, not Play Store), maybe the checks are hardcoded in some way.

What I’m thinking now is to get the APK and self-sign it as a way to prevent Play Store from auto updating it. I’m with a non-rooted device, this seems to be about the only way I have. I have already unchecked the auto update for it, but it still appears in the update list, and if I tap “Update all”, it would update. Does anyone have experience with this?

A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.

For things that you’re using by yourself, sure, it’s doable. However, for content creation, it’s pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don’t have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.

Practical example: I’m a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn’t depend on this, but I’m still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they’ll copy them over and they’ll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).

Developers developers developers developers

Pp made of tin, why?

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You embarrassed the computer back into working. Pat yourself on the shoulder.

If software was your kid.

Credit: Scribbly G

Medicine. I just don’t see myself being responsible for the health and lives of other people - but I’m grateful to the people who practice that.

… s?

Off the top of my head:

• complex gestures (tap + swipe, two finger swipe/rotate)
• frequent/recent/new apps in app search
• app drawer tabs
• icon customisation for folders
• creating home screen shortcuts for activities (or if that’s possible, I couldn’t find it).

Of course this shouldn’t sound as a blame - I know Lawnchair is relatively young - those are a bit more advanced features that I grew used to over more than 10 years with Nova. When I manage to get a development environment running and some knowledge about Android, those are some of the first things I’d try to implement in Lawnchair.

I’ve tried it, but it’s missing some things I’m used to - both functionally and visually.

I was gonna suggest “just launch cmd directly”, but then remembered that this usualy just launches Terminal if it’s installed.

We’ve come full circle.

Dang… I saw this a while ago, but thanks to this post I looked again and it turned out that mine had automatically updated to the new version on Play Store. Went ahead and uninstalled it and then installed the latest Beta from before, and I was lucky that my email license still worked - don’t know for how long though (not sure if the check is hardcoded in some way or if it makes an API call).

It’s had a great run, but it’s just sad that it has to end like this. Would’ve been spectacular if it was open-sourced as promised.

I started looking into alternatives and it seems like no other launcher is quite there yet, but Lawnchair looks promising for my use. The whole situation started looking like the appropriate time to learn some Android development; a while ago I was thinking of forking the AOSP launcher and trying to implement some stuff by myself, but now it seems like contributing to Lawnchair would be a better idea.

Bit late to the party…

That’s very much in the spirit of “Stop being poor”.

Opera had this 20+ years ago. Once you get used to it, there’s no going back.

What’s next? Getting mad at the grocery store because other people are buying the same things you do?

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