[aftbit]

Graphene's team takes a fairly hostile view towards feature creep, possibly for very good reasons. They basically only add features that improve security & privacy. Everything else is stock AOSP.

My personal hill to die on is that the launcher uses lil tiny icons and text, which I find hard to read, and alternative launchers are a bit of a privacy and security disaster. They refuse to add anything to the built in launcher to adjust this, and suggest either raising all of the sizes (with accessibility, which affects all apps) or use an alternative launcher.

Alas it is still a very nice operating system.

[ParetoOptimal]

The thing that kills me is no shake gesture or power button hold for flashlight.

Someone with a threat model that GrapheneOS addresses could always use access to a quick flashlight.

[aftbit]

I miss this from my old Motorola Android phones, along with the squeeze feature on IIRC the Nexus. It would definitely be nice to have for me.

However I've found that flashlight is still relatively accessible. It's three actions - press power, drag finger down from top of screen, tap Flashlight. Not too bad, but not possible from muscle memory or with gloves on. Good for looking under the seat for your keys at a movie, bad for quick reactions.

When I'm traveling or outside at night, I tend to carry a dedicated flashlight, but I'm odd like that.

[NotPractical]

Is there still the issue of third party Android launchers being treated as second-class, not allowed access to features like gesture navigation? I haven't used one in a while.

[morserer]

Nope! Third party launchers work just fine in GOS and other custom roms, with gesture navigation as well. The tough thing is that animations don't work well, at least in my experience. Most of the very slick "return to home" animations break on non-stock launchers, and it introduces stuttering on returning to home unless you're using 3-button navigation.

[NotPractical]

I probably wouldn't use an alternative launcher with those caveats attached. It seems the awkward animation thing may be a consequence of an Android security feature:

> Why is the recent screen buggy?

> Unfortunately, it is because the system launcher handles the Recents screen. Therefore, if you change the default launcher, weird things can happen [...] The only way to fix this is by having a Magisk module called QuickSwitch.

https://lawnchair.app/faq/#why-is-the-recent-screen-buggy

(Can't vouch for the accuracy of this information as of $CURRENT_ANDROID_VERSION.)