Hiya, am thinking about removing the stock android launcher on my Pixel 7a, due to a bug causing one of the three navigation buttons to randomly not work, more about the bug here; https://lemmy.world/post/10555733. So was wondering if anyone had any experience regarding this? I know how to remove it, just want to know what the potential consequences would be. I thought of having 2 launchers available, should the main one I use not work (for whatever reason). Please let me know if you have done this before and how it went :)

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    102·
    5 months ago

    I don’t think adb would let you remove it, unless you have root. But you can try it out in Android Studio’s Emulator, it essentially provides you with with an Android VM on your PC. You can access it straight from adb, and it doesn’t matter if you break something, as you can simply create a new virtual device.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      71·
      5 months ago

      And if they have root it would be safer to just freeze it with Titanium to prevent the bug.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          If you have root than Titanium is still the best around for things like app backup and restore, and if you have Titanium you might as well freeze apps with it because it’s very easy.

          But what Titanium calls freeze is actually a native function of Android (“disabling” an app), it just takes more steps. Normally it’s available in the app’s system info screen but preinstalled apps will bitch about it and may ask you to uninstall updates before allowing you to disable them. Some preinstalled apps won’t let you disable them at all and you have to resort to terminal commands. It’s just easier to use Titanium.

          I think there’s other apps around that specialize in disabling stuff and may or may not require root. I don’t know, I’ve always used Titanium and never looked back.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          You can use Titanium on anything if you can get root in a normal fashion (standard superuser) and if it has a decent BusyBox installed.

          But you might also be able to freeze (disable) an app from terminal, the command IIRC is pm disable-user + parameters.