HALauncher – Android TV of All version can not use this app as home app

[App] HALauncher

HALauncher : Attention Android TV of All version can not use this app as home app!

When google’s apps are updated, they change system settings automatically and stop to use other than default home app. Even it’s older than Android 6.0…

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191828

Update 2017/04/08 Following command was banned by Google’s security update.
$ adb shell pm hide com.google.android.leanbacklauncher
So, if you was using HA Launcher as home app by this, maybe OS would be unstable. Sorry.

Attention  Android TV 7.1.1 has some problems. “Landscape lock” and “Blue Light Filter” are not working fine…
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=230100

HA Launcher is a launcher for displaying and opening non-Android TV applications quickly on the Nexus Player, ADT-1, Nvidia Shield and the Razor Forge, Fire TV.

Usually, Android TV’s home launcher doesn’t show sideloaded apps. By using the HA Launcher, you can display and run apps designed for smartphones and tablets using a 1-click operation.

You can use this app as your home launcher instead of default launcher. Please select this setting in “HALauncher Settings” preference. Android TV’s launcher and the HALauncher can co-exist.

This launcher is recommended for all users who sideload apps and all apps will be available in the “Apps List” section.

HA Launcher was designed using Android 5.0 material Design so it fits right in with the Android TV. It is highly customizable allowing you to change the color scheme, background graphic, icon graphic, add widgets to the home screen and remove the side panel completely to facilitate a cleaner home screen appearance.

HA Launcher lets you lock the screen orientation to horizontal and create shortcuts to applications, webpages, IPTV channels and videos stored on your harddrive by using the “Create Shortcut” feature.

If you sideload apps on any Android TV device, you need HALauncher!

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[v1.5.1-]
Added ads.(*)
You can disable ads for free. Uncheck “Show ads” in [Settings]->[HALauncher Settings].

HALauncher user reviews :

Great launcher for android tv, although I have noticed the newest version is crashing a lot on my tv boxes. The fact that you can save/restore settings is awesome and makes it very easy to re customize my box. However this option is not available on amazon devices. Will it be in the future?

The only thing this app seems to be missing is a start from “all apps” screen or boot into “all apps” or just an “all apps” section only no need for anything else other than settings/halauncher settings/os settings. I hope that made sense

One of the most customizable tv launchers, but clock error at noon, date/time too close together and many copies of same app in all apps list should be fixed. If these problems are fixed, plus add weather and calendar widget, it would be the best launcher.

I installed HAL on my android TV device and it’s been working great. I feel that it can be difficult to upload images for backgrounds but was able to find a workaround. One thing is that it seems with a recent update my icons for apps have defaulted to a default android guy. Plex, pandora and Google music are some of the apps affected. I’m unable to figure out why this is. Not sure how to get HAL to check for these icons again. Overall really like the program but support and documentation is hard to come by.

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