cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19831054
Third-party Android launchers often suffer from limitations and issues because of Android, but this user survey could help.
One of the first major problems took place with Android 10, as it restricted navigation gestures to stock launchers.
Note in 2019 in the beta release of Android 10, Google took away swipe gesture navigation and forced third party launchers to use the older 3 button navigation.
Such a dumb restriction. I tried a new launcher a few weeks ago just to find out it would remove the gesture controls, which I’m already used to, had to go back to stock. I thought it was more of Xiaomi’s attempts to lock you in to their shitty ecosystem; quite sad it is like that even on other devices.
That was a problem in the old android 10 smartphones on some devices. Most smartphones except from xiaomi can use gestures with 3rd party launchers. Not allowing gestures with other launchers is on xiaomi.
The animations may be buggy and, there may be other bugs. But, it works in other brand smartphones.
Uh, makes sense, thanks for clearing that up.
So in my case it actually is Xiaomi being Xiaomi, screwing it’s power users, or any users in general.
Wait till you experience the unmitigated joy that is Xiaomi’s battery optimisations, resulting in permissions you grant to the launcher for gesture and media support to be constantly revoked. 🙄
The warning prompt for dangerous permissions is not fun either.
I haven’t used a stock launcher for a decade and haven’t noticed any issues… currently on KISS launcher.
KISS is awesome, although I’ve been using Kvæsitso of late.
I’ve used Lawnchair for years and had no issues either. Is there some widespread problem I’ve been lucky enough to avoid?
Gestures don’t work with them too nicely. Also the recents screen is still from the built-in launcher, unless with root access of course
Discreet Launcher is somewhat buggy when app switching.
Its very bad when you have a predictive back enabled.
It’ll just skip the animation entirely. However you won’t go home until the animation “finishes” so it just freezes for a second
