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Feature request: Widget wall or RSS feed as Google Discover alternatives

Open nodeunit opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

This is an idea for far in the future, pie-in-the-sky possibilities;

As some of us no longer use the Google app to get our news, it would be nice to see an option to replace the left-most page with something roughly equivalent or even completely different.

The more down to earth option: Implement a simple list of news feeds powered by RSS, or perhaps research if any news aggregation services have freely-available APIs for use. The intended result is a drop in replacement for discover.

The less realistic, more challenging option:

Creating a specialized scrolling launcher page dedicated to widgets, akin to iOS. This would allow users to have faster access to their widgets + potentially customize their own Discover-like page. (One issue that I realize about this proposal is that most launcher3-derived launchers aren't configured for vertical page scrolling and neither are most widgets, so stability and navigation may be challenging.)

nodeunit avatar Jul 26 '22 02:07 nodeunit

Actually we already have a plan to add such "shelf", but it's a long term addition. Am not sure if it'll come with v1, but it's already on my personal long todo-list.

machiav3lli avatar Jul 26 '22 15:07 machiav3lli

It will be handle as a separated project @ https://github.com/saulhdev/OmegaFeeder

saulhdev avatar Sep 11 '22 03:09 saulhdev