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 :)
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Having two launchers is a good point but it doesn’t have to be the stock launcher. You can install any random launcher for backup as long as it can show the app list.
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.
And if they have root it would be safer to just freeze it with Titanium to prevent the bug.
Is that what people use to freeze Apps nowadays? I’m curious, because the last time I used a rooted Android device was like 7 years ago.
Yes, I have done it multiple times but you will lose recents screen and gesture navigation. If you have root, you can get it back with lawnchair + quickswitch.
