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Nova Launcher is considered the best launcher but no change font option?

PhilipX20

PhilipX20

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I know you can slightly change the font from sizes and condense but that really isn't a lot. OO Launcher allows so I expected whom many call Nova Launcher the 'best launcher ever' to be able to.
I know, I answered my own question. Aside that, NL seems very good but not that great in comparison to OOL. I like fiddling and customize my background's phone, that's all.
 
the reason why i got rid of nova because you cant remove the tap and hold pop up menu that it never used to have but on apex you can and you can change the font for free with no ads so its sorted (you can theme it too)
 
Tap and hold pop-up menu? If you mean the options to edit an icon or widget, just lock the desktop and you don't get that without unlocking. If you mean something else, please explain - I'm using Nova and have been experimenting to try to work out what you mean before posting, and can't find anything else that fits this description (unlike Apex, which can give me a menu when I tap and hold the desktop).

TBH I'm not really bothered about launcher themes: these only affect desktop and app drawer, and as I can handle my own desktop and don't like a distracting app drawer background that really comes down to icon packs for me, which both support (I find a different font in the app drawer and system menus a bit jarring, so don't care much about a launcher supporting fonts, and if I did I'd prefer them to be something I could set separately rather than them having to be included in a theme). So for me personally the differences there aren't a big deal.

Anyway, for me the two are extremely similar. Apex development paused for a couple of years, which is probably the main reason I switched to using Nova exclusively, but I have it back on my phone as an alternative launcher now (I used to use one to play with alternative desktop setups while using the other for day-to-day work, occasionally swapping the default over).
 
With Nova and the cheap ¢0$+ of Prime plugin, you can set whatever features to whichever Option you wish. ..just spend a little time, get to know the app, buy the plugin for full features and ya may fall in Love. I bought the Prime add-on some years ago and have considered it worth the few $. Heck, half the Custom ROMs I've made already have Nova pre installed since some launchers are virtually free of any useful options. Just because ya can't drive a Ferrari well the first few minutes doesn't mean ya should switch to a Dodge Lemon.. (Same perspective). As for a Font switcher.. There are apps, Xposed Frameworks, and options in settings (for custom ROMs) that do the same thing, just be selective and try options
 
Like Hadron, I noticed Apex seemed to run behind Nova in development. I got Nova Prime for 99 cents during a sale and never looked back. Nova's developer has been steady for a long time now. Consistent updates and great customer service. Frankly, Google/Android should hire him.
 
OK, that. For most icons locking the desktop does remove this - of course if you press for so long that it thinks you wish to move or remove the app it pops up to tell you that the desktop is locked, but that takes a very long press so I never trigger it by accident when opening an app (your mileage may vary - I deduce that you press icons for longer than I do).

However some, such as the first in your video, support the App Shortcuts feature introduced with Android 7.1, and those do still show a menu with the desktop locked, which makes sense since these are extra actions for the app rather than editing the desktop. And this seems to require a shorter press than unlocking the desktop does. I'd actually forgotten this because so few apps support it, and I'd not used one that does in my tests (and had never accidentally triggered it when opening one of the apps that does). I don't see any way of turning this off myself (and most of the posts I've found searching for this are asking how to turn it on, and getting the answer "you shouldn't have to do anything special").

What does surprise me, given that this feature was introduced in Android 7.1, is that Nova is the only launcher on my phone where this works. Neither Apex nor the Pixel launcher show it (I do have the app pop-up menu enabled on Apex), the latter being really odd when the Pixel launcher was the first to introduce the feature! Maybe there's some other setting which disables this in the Pixel launcher (as a side-effect, but it's not obvious to me.
 
Its not that it accident ly comes up
Its that I DON'T like the menu
It's very hard for me to press the buttons
I would rather have the icons at the top.
 
Gaberilde said:
Its not that it accident ly comes up
Its that I DON'T like the menu
It's very hard for me to press the buttons
I would rather have the icons at the top.
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I don't actually understand the bit about preferring "the icons at the top" (the menu in your video shows icons at the top - sorry if I'm being thick here!), but if you don't want the menu at all then I don't think that matters, since I don't think you can remove it completely in Nova for apps that use the "app shortcuts" feature.
 
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