Sony is working on a new Xperia Home launcher
A few days ago, news broke about Sony discontinuing the development of its own Xperia Home launcher that ships with every Sony smartphone. The firm has also planned to close the Beta program for the launcher.
The information seemed odd at the time, but now Erika Prymus, a developer part of the Xperia Home team, has cleared the confusion. She explained that Sony is now focusing on a new Xperia Home app.
The reason? We still don't know but it probably has something to do with the new gesture controls introduced with Android P, so Sony probably decided to start from scratch.
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Well most of wht you said exist only in old devices which will not be used fithermore in future. Like Symbian or Windows in phones. Like to say they gave it a try and failed thus no more of these gadgets. But companies will try to make own l...
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Yes OS. Android updates is OS almost Annually. Android 6 is different to android 7 which is different to android 8. Also there is more than just android and IOS, Microsoft are still hanging in there. Symbian is still around and Firefox is up and comi...
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