There is only one other person working on Nova Launcher

Almost the entire team working on Nova Launcher, one of the biggest names in Android launchers, has been let go. The team now has just one full-time developer, Kevin Barry, the founder of the launcher.

Barry said development will continue and he will continue to lead the project. But the team members who were fired said that work on the Nova launcher will have to slow down, and Barry has already announced that he has to "scale down" the next major version of the Nova program compared to what was originally planned.

"Development will undoubtedly slow down with fewer people working on the app, but the current plan is for updates to continue in some form," Rob Wainwright, one of the fired developers, wrote on Discord.

Nova Launcher has been a fixture in the Android launcher community for years, offering highly customizable features to transform the home screens of Android phones. The app was acquired by mobile analytics company Branch in July 2022. According to Cliff Wade, head of customer relations for Nova Launcher, Branch is now laying off more than 100 people across the company, including most of the Nova team. Wainwright said there used to be "about ten people" working on the Nova.

The launcher will continue to work for anyone already using it. Although the launcher has been under development by a team for several years, it was initially the work of a single developer. "For many years, the original Nova team was just me," Barry wrote in the post.