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Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. (lemmy.ml)

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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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[–] kehet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

I just hope there won't be any enshittification phases, just abandon it or remove it from play store if open sourcing it as-is is not possible.