Comment by ssl-3

Thanks for the tip.

I opened up my phone to see about giving Octopi a shot, and (amusingly? alarmingly?) Nova Launcher produced a popup warning me that it would now feature ads.

Anyway, my launcher needs are pretty minimal. Switching over and recreating a familiar layout was easy enough.

I do find one function missing, though: Some shortcut functionality seems missing in Octopi that was present in Nova.

For instance: Shazam. I use it to identify the music I hear, and that's all I want it for. With Nova, I was able to create a single-tap button on the home screen for a "Shazam Now" shortcut that immediately went straight to the identification phase with zero nonsense. This worked slick, and I'd been using it this way for a decade or so.

With Octopi, I can long-press the Shazam icon and pick "Shazam Now", and that does work. But that's multiple steps instead of just one, and I can't drag that shortcut to the home screen. There is also a list of apps with shortcuts that I can add, but Shazam is missing from that list.

Thus, the single-tap Shazam Now function I'm familiar with is presently lacking. Perhaps some day. :)

(Otherwise, Octopi fits with everything else I want to do, so I'm buying the dev a coffee.)