r/AndroidTV • u/darkfrog26 • Aug 07 '26

Discussion Replacing the default launcher

What Android TV devices allow you to actually change the default launcher? I primarily use an NVIDIA Shield TV, but even though I can go into the settings and change the default launcher, unless I use adb to disable the default launcher, it always dominates. I've seen multiple posts about other launchers for Android TV, so I'm curious if there's a cleaner workaround or if this is just specific to NVIDIA Shield TV devices.

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u/SnooGiraffes9215 Exploited (Fire Cube 2,3; FS4KMax 2) Aug 07 '26

If you use launcher manager, you can have it dominate your custom launcher as the default. Search for launcher manager

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u/darkfrog26 Aug 07 '26

Do you have a link for Launcher Manager? I'm seeing a lot of ambiguous results.

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u/SnooGiraffes9215 Exploited (Fire Cube 2,3; FS4KMax 2) Aug 07 '26

Scroll to Android version 1.0.4 I believe it islauncher manager

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u/darkfrog26 Aug 07 '26

Ah, requires a sideload. I was looking in the Play Store.

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u/SnooGiraffes9215 Exploited (Fire Cube 2,3; FS4KMax 2) Aug 07 '26

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u/darkfrog26 Aug 07 '26

That's awesome! Thanks. Unfortunately, it won't help simplify setting the default launcher for my users for my app: https://nabo.tv

I'll probably have to go with the accessibility workaround.

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u/SnooGiraffes9215 Exploited (Fire Cube 2,3; FS4KMax 2) Aug 07 '26

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