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Nova Launcher is basically dead, and Android is worse off for it
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Does any other launcher allow setting of custom swipe actions on home screen icons?
As far as I know, Action Launcher supports custom swipe actions, but it's years since I tried it.
I'll look into it, thanks.
They made that a premium-only feature a while ago
Lawnchair 15.Beta 1 has swipe left and swipe right.
only works on the home screen though not the dock maybe that'll be fixed though
It works on the dock.
I literally tried it and it doesn't work it just tries to change the homepage
Sucks for you then.
For anyone else, it works for me so it could probably work for you. YMMV. It is in beta.
Just to show it is in the dock, I turn background on.
yes it lets you do it but it doesn't work if you actually try to do it did you try or did you just set some options and then say it works
It works.
Lol.
Yes. This is not an exclusive feature.
It's either gotten more common since I last explored or I was looking in the wrong places.
I've settled on Total Launcher. It has custom swipe on all 4 directions.
Also background double & triple tap. And double finger swipe up & down.
Niagara launcher has "pop-ups" on swipe which can act as an app folder, or display app shortcuts or widgets. Not exactly the same behaviour but imo tidier & more elegant approach to basically the same use case.
Thought all of them did