Unless someone here knows of a fix, I'll notify Microsoft and uninstall it. So it was likely I would need to open the app anyway.Okay, folks, I've found a critical error in the Microsoft Launcher. The large tiles would only show, for example, the first few words of my newest email. That meant only 3 and a half apps would fit on the home screen, without the need to scroll down. But my problem with them was that I would need to make them as large as possible for them to be useful.

Nova's icon notification badges are almost as good as Niagara's notifications anyway, so I'm not really gaining anything by using Niagara.I understand the idea of Windows Phone's tiles. So I'm less likely to need to scroll to another screen. With Nova I can fit the time, date and weather widgets, Calendar event and Gmail Inbox widgets, Google search box and 12 icons all on the one home screen. So I find that I need to scroll around more to find things. Niagara only fits the time, date and weather widgets, Google button and 8 and a half icons on the home screen. It does look simple, but the notifications only work for Email apps, not for Phone, Messages and Calendar. In reply to zbecka:I have just installed Niagara launcher to give it a try. You can download Microsoft Launcher 6 from the Google Play Store. Microsoft Launcher requires Android 7.0 or higher, but you may have issues with Android 10 navigation gestures on some phone models, the firm notes.

It also includes performance improvements “like speed to load, low memory utilization, battery optimization and fluent animations.” I told you it was horribly written. There’s no official announcement, but this horribly-written Microsoft post notes that the Launcher 6 is based on a new codebase that enables some of its new features, including a new personalized news feed, landscape orientation support, customizable application icons, Bing-based wallpaper, and Dark Theme support. The release was hinted at by a recent deprecation of the preview version of the Launcher, and is thought to include some UX that will appear soon in the Surface Duo as well. Microsoft has released a major new version of its Launcher for Android that supports Dark mode, landscape orientation, and much more.

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