I hate the Pixel launcher. Far too limited, and no damned corporation gets to tell me that I have to have their search bar on my home screen and have to use their clock/info widget. So it lasted less than a minute with me.

Hence as a current Pixel user I use Nova. I tried Lawnchair briefly but I'm used to having more customisation than it offered back then (I don't know whether it offers more now).

 

Thats really Nice

 

Wow! I just decided to have a play with Lawnchair and I've never seen anything like it! I don't know what it was conflicting with but it did not play nice: the moment I installed it I lost my home gesture and even after uninstalling it and restarting the phone I'm having trouble accessing the app drawer (I have to do it really slowly and carefully). I'm sure there's something specific on my phone it clashed with, but there's no way I'm trying it again.

 

i use nova as well. but i think adw is another launcher you might want to check out as well.......ask @MoodyBlues she has i think a couple of threads on it.

 

I've never tried Lawnchair, nor have I ever used a Pixel, so I can't give any advice on any of that!

However, as @ocnbrze noted, I do use ADW. I prefer it over Nova, but I always suggest trying more than one launcher to see what suits you best. When it comes to customization options, ADW has a lot!

If you're interested in seeing a few things it can do, have a look at this thread. Feel free to ask questions, too!

 

Yeah, what he said! ^

That sounds like what it would take for me, too...

 

We had one a few years back...

(It's a little out of date now).

 

You mean Go Launcher?

That or gone away completely (as happens to most apps eventually).

 

I tried Go Launcher a while ago, I did not like the interference or ads though, It is just a weighed down version of Nova, I tried Nova for a bitter sweet symphanoy I had like to enter throughout the wormhole, of where finally stumbled upon MB's almighty AWD, where now I am in love with the interference of AWD

 

Go has actually been around longer than Nova. But Go apps got progressively spammier, and of course there have been their privacy issues, so I could never recommend them to anyone.

 

Ha ha ha, I hear you! I know what it's like to lose something you really like--and I always wonder why people REMOVE perfectly good features. Like, what? Shouldn't updates/upgrades contain MORE features? Not less. I understand if an Android update forces a change, but that should be temporary, just until the developer tweaks that feature to make it work with the new OS.

Anyway, it's been less than a year since I finally switched from ADW 1 to 2. I felt kind of dumbfounded at first...it just seemed TOO different. But once I took a deep breath and explored its new look and feel, I not only replicated everything I loved, but found new things to love, too. Hence the thread I started as I played with it.

 

Long time NOVA user. Tried ADW but went back to NOVA.

I did keep ADW installed and every so often bring it out for another try.