Nova Launcher 5.5 Stable is Now Available; Brings Various Oreo Features

It has been months since the beta version of the popular Nova Launcher 5.v was made available to the public, but now the look is finally over every bit the developer TeslaCoil has finally released the stable version to all the users. The new version brings some valuable additions to the table, including a set up of new Android eight.1 Oreo features that might come in handy if your phone hasn't received the Oreo update yet. Then, if you're keen on trying this out, permit'southward take a await at the diverse Android Oreo features that Nova Launcher five.5 has to offer:

Adaptive Icons –With the Android Oreo update, Google wanted to bring uniformity to app icons by introducing a new way of reformatting and submitting them, so that they all accept an identical shape rather than being a mess of various shapes. Nova Launcher has brought this characteristic to older Android versions as well.

Custom Dock Widget –Love the docked Google search bar that was introduced with Android Oreo? Well, Nova Launcher lets you lot practise the same in the stable v.5 version. To enable the docked search bar, simply head over to Nova Settings -> Dock -> Search bar and you're good to go.

Popup Carte –The latest version of Nova Launcher lets you long-press on an app icon to open a pop-up carte du jour, a feature that'southward exclusive to Android 8.0 Oreo. This can be enabled within Nova Settings -> Look and Experience -> Popup Menu.

Supercede Docked Searchbar with whatsoever Widget – The docked Google search bar that's exclusive to Android eight.0 looks pretty good on Nova Launcher besides. Withal, you could have things even farther by replacing the search bar with any widget as long as it occupies four rows and 1 column.

Replace Legacy icons with Adaptive icons –If you were thinking the new Adaptive icons feature was bang-up, you'll be pleased to know that Nova Launcher too lets you lot reshape the legacy app icons and make them adaptive for uniformity.

Well, nosotros're glad we could listing out some cool new Android Oreo-style features that Nova launcher 5.5 has to offering. If you just cannot expect to try it out for yourself on your smartphone, head over to the Play Store and start downloading it right away. Notwithstanding, if y'all already have Nova Launcher, become to Settings -> Nova -> Check for update in order to update the launcher to the latest stable version.