Nova Launcher simply acquired one other replace regardless of being ‘useless’

Nova Launcher is receiving yet one more replace, regardless of its founder, Kevin Barry, asserting in September that he would not be concerned in its growth. On the time, Barry had said that he was the one one engaged on the third-party launcher and that along with his departure from Department, the analytics agency that acquired Nova Launcher in 2022, the venture would not be maintained.

Since then, Nova Launcher has obtained a number of back-to-back updates, with the most recent 8.1.6 beta addressing a serious crash difficulty. Based on customers on Reddit, the brand new beta, launched just some hours in the past, fixes the bug that broke app drawer search. In model 8.1.5, performing a search within the app drawer would immediately crash the launcher except customers restricted apps to a single row. The 8.1.6 beta resolves this drawback, so searches now work correctly with out that workaround.

Who’s engaged on Nova Launcher?

The query puzzling customers now could be: who’s really making all these adjustments and releasing new updates to Nova Launcher? Since Barry’s exit from Department, the corporate that owns Nova, nobody was anticipated to keep up, not to mention replace, the launcher.

Former Nova developer Rob Wainwright beforehand talked about that the majority of those updates had been accomplished by the unique Nova staff over a yr in the past, suggesting that energetic growth might have stalled, and these are merely leftover options being pushed to manufacturing now.

Some customers additionally speculate that Department may be responding to the latest damaging publicity surrounding the launcher’s demise by rolling out bug fixes and updates that had been already able to go.