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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
Is all of this necessary if I just wanna install a separate Android launcher?
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It is not!
If you just want to install an Android launcher, you can install one with adb, but you need a way to "launch the launcher". You can do this with adb as well but that would require you to hook it up to a computer which would be kind of lame.
I wrote an app that overrides the top left button to launch Simple App Launcher, which can then launch anything you sideloaded, which is fine if that's all you want. No root required:
https://github.com/Tombert/StupidLauncher
This Glowlight is actually for my wife, and she wanted custom sleep screens, and if you want that then you *do* need to root it.
BTW I am not an Android developer, this was an ad-hoc thing I wrote to get stuff working. If anyone here has Android dev experience I encourage you to make a pull request to clean up my crappy code.