After Working on it alone for a year, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher Kevin Barry has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. More Info: https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

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[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm still using Nova Launcher, can you elaborate on the spyware part?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

They were acquired by Branch Analytics, and right after the APK went up in size by 150% with no visible changes.

It then asks for location and accessibility (to see notifications) permissions.

They then got rid of most of the staff, leaving a sole developer.

No one knows what it sends back home (at least not the last time I read about it, which was years ago).