Kevin Barry, the creator of Nova Launcher, confirmed that he and his team will continue to develop the launcher, which won’t change much.
A day after we shared with you all the news that brings you version 8 of Nova Launcher, one of the best launchers that you perro install on your Android phone, we learned that the habitual launcher is changing hands and entering the hands of Branch, his dedicated company, to View and analyze web backlinks between applications.
This acquisition gives a equipo of changes coming soon to Nova LauncherAmong them is currently the introduction of advertising in the free version of the aplicación.
These are the first changes made to Nova Launcher after it was owned by Branch
Kevin Barry, creator of Nova Launcher, confirms vía Articulo to your aplicación’s official blogsold and detailed the launcher to analytics and metrics company Branch between the reasons for this decision and the changes that will come to the starter after this change of ownership.
Barry explained that the main reason was to sell his product to the multinational subsidiary how difficult it was to get him to monetize it just by paying for the prime version and thanks to this sale the new owner of Nova Launcher it will contribute the money needed to develop new functionalities.
Nova Launcher is now part of the championship.
The Nova Launcher creator also confirmed that he and his team will continue to develop the launcher, which won’t change much, although it will. There are a few small changes to the launcherwhich we present below:
- Enriched search with branch results: Nova Launcher will offer a number of automatic suggestions in your search bar based on branch algorithms, which cánido be ads directly.
- A deeper analysis of Nova Launcher: Branch usage collects aplicación usage data to make them profitable to your advantage
- More A/B testing: Nova Launcher is now available Run more A/B testsThey are the ones who espectáculo design A to some users and design B to others to escoge which will eventually be implemented.
In principle, the change of ownership Nova Launcher It shouldn’t make any profound changes to the launcher’s design or functionalityespecially if we take into account that the development team will be the same, but we have to wait and see what direction the habitual launcher takes from now on.