Niagara Launcher ‧ Home Screen 0.7.8 (Early Access)

0.7.8 will roll out in the Play Store today. The apk is almost identical to v0.7.8a3 but contains a couple more translations (btw, you can submit your own translations here: crwd.in/niagara-launcher). The notification bug is often reported after a release, I assume that they might stop working on your phone after receiving the update, but following the steps appearing on screen will most likely fix the issue.

As you may have noticed, 0.7.8a’s workaround for notifications didn’t really help, it even made them not showing up on unaffected devices. That’s why I removed it and tried something else instead.
Looking at open issues online, it seems that every other Launcher has to deal with the same - more than four years old - issue which some still hasn’t been fixed by various phone manufacturers ;(
If notifications broke only in 0.7.8a for you, they might not work again either on 0.7,8a3 because of the reversal until you revoke and re-grant notification access. At least Niagara will now inform you if the third workaround is not working as well and gives you suggestions how to fix it locally.
Moreover, the option to send a log containing all visible notifications has been removed from Niagara’s settings. Instead, you can search for “/notifications” in the app search to get all the information about them, but it’s rather meant for debugging purposes; to check if the launcher extracts the notification’s data correctly.

• 🔝 The latest version lets you adjust the space above your favorites by long pressing on it
• Improved scrolling performance
• Prevent a few crashes
• Filtered out some media notification false positives (e.g. the media widget showed up sometimes while Spotify was downloading songs)
• Updated translations