What a waste of time and money !

I appreciate the Apps in it’s infancy on Android but things didn’t go so well for me.

The material colours were off and when I tried to open the settings menu the result was null.

I will certainly revisit, once all the bugs have been ironed out.

Samsung, Android 14.

Samsung user.

Spotted the inclusion of Auto Blocker in the last system update.

The App can be disabled, or as I did, adb uninstalled.

Another one for Helliboard, tried Floris but spell checking is a must for me, once Floris has it, I may try things out.

I’ve kinda been doing this for a while now, with the help of the floating overlays App, although the availability of supported floating Apps is limited at the moment.

Playstore Link :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applay.overlay

Filled out the survey, hope it helps.

Total Launcher on, Samsung A52S 5G, Android 14, has for the most part, been a good experience, for nearly Three years now.

Gestures are smooth but animations are a little clunky and the App exhibits some strange behaviour on occasions.

The Launcher’s quality seems to vary with manufacturer, some users report issues.

The sheer level of customisation is what keeps me on board, there’s no other Launcher on Playstore that offers the same level of finite adjustments.

There’s some good point’s here, even the articles author seems to have doubt’s as to the validity of such devices where updates are concerned.

Putting all those aside for a moment, to me the silver lining is the ability to easily swap out a failing battery or charging port, especially if your a ham-fisted user who regularly rams the connection in. I’ve had no end of these fail over the years and more often than not, simply disposed of the device.

The other thing I miss from back in the day was the ability to disconnect the battery when a device gets frozen, it’s not resolving the underling issue but a great way to get things up and running again.

Really not sure about this, specifically the two finger gesture bit.

Because of my physical difficulties, I use a Stylus, which is fine at the moment.

Trying to keep hold of the Stylus, whilst fumbling for the two finger swipe screen gesture, really isn’t going to work well for me.

When the time comes, I’ll probably need to look for a third party Notification Shade / Quick Settings / Gestures App, that gets around this.

Yet another case of aesthetics over practicality Google 👎

Could end up being a collector’s model, nah.