Update 3 months later:
I’m using Smart Launcher since my last post here. It’s great. I even bought the pro version. It’s not super “stock-y”, but that’s absolutely fine. I like that you can customize a lot of things!
The combo widget shows upcoming alarms and bank holidays. Also (somewhat) location-aware weather.
I think I stick with it.
Now that the Google search bar on the homescreen has become uttery useless there is no real reason to have it anymore and it is annoying anyways, so I am in search for a launcher that resembles the stock Pixel launcher.
Especially the “combo widget” that shows the time, the date, position-weather, tasks, warnings, timers, etc. all in one place.
Launchers I tried so war that don’t seem to have such a widget and seem not to be able to use that widget:
- Nova
- Lawnchair
- Niagara
- Hyperion
Those are all great launchers, but this specific functionality (basically the only feature I use on my homescreen besides one single icon for one app) seems to be missing in all of them.
So my question is: does someone know a launcher that comes with an unobstrusive “combo widget” like the stock widget as described, that also allows me to remove the now useless search bar from the home screen?
Avoid Nova: they’ve sold out to a spyware firm.
I moved to smart launcher. It has a combo widget with:
Time Date Weather Next event
Doesn’t show: Task Timers
But you can actually have a widget where you can swipe to page through them.
Also gesture controls.
Might not be a perfect fit but might be good enough?
Personally I can’t live without the gesture controls.
Smart Launcher looks great. It has a combo widget with actually working location-aware weather that can also show upcoming alarms and calendar entries. I think instead of Lawnchair with Smartspacer I keep this launcher.
I’m happy with smart launcher. It’s got some quirks but it’s fully replaced Nova and that’s mostly what I wanted.