Google is shortly to eliminate its Google Now launcher from its on line retailer, according to AndroidPolice. The application, extended a mainstay of Android handsets, helps users bypass bloatware to search for their favorite apps and has been downloaded at least fifty million occasions. But the tech large is reportedly taking away the Now launcher from the Enjoy retailer in the coming months. In an e-mail to partnering cell phone makers leaked to the publication, Google’s Android Staff reported it is discontinuing the Now launcher, indicating the Search Launcher Services library for OEMs, which is now production all set for Android seven and seven.1, “is a much more scalable remedy”. It means OEMs can alternatively use the Search Launcher Services application, which integrates the Search Launcher Services library with an Android Open Supply Venture Launcher3 programme. Google is expected to kill Google Now Launcher by 1 March from the Enjoy retailer, and will quit making it available in its Google Cell Services package to OEMs from that day too. The tech large will never approve new products working with the Now launcher after this day, but has fully commited to enabling products to keep on shipping telephones with the Now launcher if they have been authorised just before 1 March. Even so, the letter provides: “These devices do not have to swap the Google Now Launcher with anything else after they’ve up to date to [sic] newer edition of the Android system.” This most likely means Android users will have to put up with some bloatware from now on. There was no mention of no matter if Google’s Pixel Launcher, which is the Now equivalent for the Pixel variety, would be opened up to other Android telephones.
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Google is shortly to eliminate its Google Now launcher from its on line retailer, according to AndroidPolice.
The application, extended a mainstay of Android handsets, helps users bypass bloatware to search for their favorite apps and has been downloaded at least fifty million occasions. But the tech large is reportedly taking away the Now launcher from the Enjoy retailer in the coming months.
In an e-mail to partnering cell phone makers leaked to the publication, Google’s Android Staff reported it is discontinuing the Now launcher, indicating the Search Launcher Services library for OEMs, which is now production all set for Android seven and seven.1, “is a much more scalable remedy”.
It means OEMs can alternatively use the Search Launcher Services application, which integrates the Search Launcher Services library with an Android Open Supply Venture Launcher3 programme.
Google is expected to kill Google Now Launcher by 1 March from the Enjoy retailer, and will quit making it available in its Google Cell Services package to OEMs from that day too.
The tech large will never approve new products working with the Now launcher after this day, but has fully commited to enabling products to keep on shipping telephones with the Now launcher if they have been authorised just before 1 March.
Even so, the letter provides: “These devices do not have to swap the Google Now Launcher with anything else after they’ve up to date to [sic] newer edition of the Android system.” This most likely means Android users will have to put up with some bloatware from now on.
There was no mention of no matter if Google’s Pixel Launcher, which is the Now equivalent for the Pixel variety, would be opened up to other Android telephones.