Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “🔴AMAZING NEW FIRESTICK / ANDROID TV LAUNCHER”.
So here we are on my Android TV device, typical home screen. We have these large screen adverts at the top covers most of the screen. We have some promoted applications, some sponsored content, but Watch What Happens now when I press the home button and we are instantly taken to this custom launcher where I can now see all of my favorite applications, I even have complete integration with my other applications here. For example, I can see content from Netflix.
We can even see continue watching. So all of that content from the standard applications has now been brought into this custom launcher. Where I can customize the wallpaper.
I can customize the size of these tiles. I can see content from other applications and all of that, without seeing any adverts without seeing any sponsored content, I really can go ahead and fully customize my Android TV home screen exactly how you like it so in this article today. Let me show you how you can get this new custom launcher on all of your Android TV and Amazon devices, including Fire Sticks and fire TVs, where you can use this application to launch all of your favorite applications. All you need to do is just hit that, like button make sure you hit that subscribe button. So, with all of that being said, let’s get started if you’re new to the channel, and you want to stay up to date with the latest tech tutorials. The latest fire stick Android and Android TV tips and tricks.
Then please do subscribe, hit the like button, it’s a small click from you, but it makes a big difference to me. Thank you. So I’m going to do my first part of the demonstration on my Nvidia Shield Pro, but I will jump over to my Amazon Fire TV Cube, so I can show you the launcher working on that device.
Now. The great thing about this launcher is, with this latest update. The developer has added in some fantastic content, probably one of the main highlights being the fact that we now get that complete integration to your other applications.
So, and if you you didn’t know with this launcher, you also have the ability to set this as your default launcher without typing in any ADB Commands or using any other application like, for example, button mapper with this single application. All of that is fully baked into the product. Now, when you start the launcher for the first time, it will show you a row for all of your TV applications.
You’Ll see these two rows which have all of your TV applications. Your standard applications, which you have the correct tv Banner, then you have your other applications which are here, are classified as mobile apps. Now you can of course, leave this if you want to.
If you want to see all of your applications, but I personally prefer just hiding these two rows and then creating those custom rows for the things I want. So again. If we go back into settings, go back into categories and let’s say for example, now I’m going to create a new category called games for a quick test. Let’S click on next and we can see that’s now visible, but you only see the category once you add an application to it.
So let’s go back again, let’s say for example, now inside the mobile apps. Let me add in Crazy Taxi, so you long press the select button and we now see this context menu. Where I can look at the app settings, I can uninstall the application. I can set the application to launch on boot but in my case I’m going to click on move to, because I want to move to another category and that category is games.
That’S now gone and right at the top. Now we can see we have a new application in games. Let’S just do one more. I mean it really is super easy to customize long press, the select button select move to and let’s do games and, lastly, let’s just add in some game streaming so long press move to and we now have those three things inside the games.
You can also customize the actual categories. If I go back into settings, go to categories, let’s click on games, so, for example, here you can say I want to show the app names or turn that off or for example, you can customize the size so depending on the size of your TV or how Far, you sit, you can customize the size of these. Let’S make that small extra small, let’s go back again and we now have our games at the top. We have some utilities, we have my streaming apps and then we have these two default lists which I’m going to hide now so again, if I go back into settings, go back into categories, let’s now find the TV apps click on that and select visible, let’s deselect, That, let’s go back and also for mobile apps.
Let’S also click on that, so those two categories are now hidden and we now have a much cleaner home screen with my favorite applications in my favorite categories. Let me just show you how you can customize the wallpaper go back into settings, go to the Launcher settings where it says appearance. I can now go to background and you now have a bunch of different collections. For example, Earth astrophotography wallpaper I mean these are different Forums on radio, big wallpapers Botanical.
Let’S just go for um sky click on that press back and we now have a different looking wallpaper there now in terms of channels. How do you get the channel content into the custom launcher? If you go back into settings, we go to edit channels, click on that, and this does take a couple of seconds for it to aggregate the channels you have on your home screen and when you do start this application for the first time. It will actually ask you that, do you give this access to your channel list so once you click on allow, you can wait a few seconds in here and we can now see all of the channels that are available and if they have their icon next to Them that means they’re currently hidden so, let’s say, for example, I’m interested in videos by crackle. I can press the select button on that by default.
It’S invisible, so I can click on this again and that now adds a new channel directly on my home screen, where I can now see content from the crackle application. So what a superb addition that the developer has done to this application, really making it a more complete feature-rich launcher and, for example, if I want to see content from Disney plus click on that again make that visible. That’S now added, I can also adjust the size. Let’S press back a few times and we can see they’ve both been added in here and, of course, if you want to adjust the order you can press left on the remote, we can see the names of the sections here.
If I press left again here, you can go to the settings one more time left. I can click on the select button here and I can now move this up and down. Let’S put that above Plex now to set this as your home button on your Android TV devices. If you go back into the settings, let’s go into the Launcher settings, let’s click on General and you have the option here that override the current launcher. Now, before you do this, you do have to Grant access to the accessibility services for this launcher. So let me do that first.
So if you press the home button, go into your settings, go into device preferences scroll down and where it says, accessibility. Let’S click on that, where it says services and you want to make sure that the project IV launcher is set to on, and this means that this application can now access the accessibility services and, through that connection, you’ll be able to set this as your home launcher. So now, if I go back into the application, I can now go to the settings where it says the Launcher settings. I can click on that click on General and I can now select the option override the current launcher. Let’S press the select button on that. So I want to press back a few times if I now open any application like downloader the next time I press the home button.
Let me press that now one click and we stay inside the custom launcher. So that’s how easy it is to use this new custom launcher on all of your Android TV devices and you can even override the home button without typing in any ADB Commands or using any third-part utilities like button mapper. All of that we can do with this project IV launcher it’s a really impressive work from the developer. Let me now jump over to my fight TV Cube, where I can show you this running on that device.
So here we are my five TV Cube. I can open up the application and we can now see the application running on my Fire TV Cube and most of the settings so adding categories same process. You can add them in you. Can then long press on the TV apps select the option to move to? You can select your custom categories.
The application is then moved and that’s all working great. Now, of course, on the Amazon TV devices, we can’t remap the home button to launch a custom launcher. You have a couple of options: either you can use the launch on boot, which will mean your device will automatically start this launcher. But of course you can’t press the home button to stay in there. Alternatively, you can remap one of these media buttons like Netflix or like Disney, plus, which I have covered before. That means the next time you press, one of those buttons it’ll automatically go to the custom launcher, but as I’ve demonstrated in the last few videos for most applications, when you launch them from here, when you press back a few times, you will stay inside that custom.
Launcher now to get this application on your Android TV devices, you should be able to find Project IV in the Play Store now to get this launcher on all of your Amazon devices. Just go to my website. Click on tutorials, which is techdoctoruk.com inside tutorials. The latest tutorial in the list will be the project IV launcher you can scroll down, sees information about the launcher, and I need all of that. We’Ll have a single link to the latest version, but also I’ve left instructions on how you can actually modify the media buttons. If you want to launch it with those or if you just want to use launch on boot, to launch the custom launcher on your Amazon devices, so really appreciate your support.
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