A few years ago, a launcher would be the first app many people installed on a new Android phone. Yet as the native phone software has gotten better, launchers have become less essential. But that's ...

After years as the Android customization go-to, things are seeming dire for Nova Launcher, and we might be saying our goodbyes to the iconic launcher that helped shape the Android platform. It was ...

Can't we fork an open source launcher that is close to Nova and add the finishing touches? I can donate time, tokens and Android skills, having fought with it since the Android uuh, Eclair, on the HTC ...

Sure, the news is sad and undoubtedly a blow to the app’s vast community and to Android as a whole. However, this announcement has come a little too late for me — Nova has been effectively dead for ...