Nearly everyone working on Nova Launcher has been laid off

Nova Launcher, in a very dated screenshot on top of the project's website. | Image: Nova Launcher

Nearly the entire team working on Nova Launcher, one of the biggest names in Android homescreen replacements, has been laid off. The team is now down to just one full time developer: Kevin Barry, the launcher's founder.

Barry said development will continue and that he will remain in charge of the project. But team members who were laid off said work on Nova will have to slow down, and Barry has already posted that he needs to cut scope" on the next major version of Nova compared to what was initially planned.

Development will undoubtedly slow with less people working on the app, but the current plan is for updates to continue in some form," Rob Wainwright, one of the laid off developers, wrote in the project's Discord.

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