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Originally Posted by tombert
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. |
Thanks! By coincidence, the GL4+ was actually for my wife as well, although she's grown pretty frustrated with the device constantly freezing, taking forever to sync, and other needling issues. There's probably a Kobo in her future, but I thought if I could get the full Android system enabled, we might be able to install some other apps that could more easily let her access her other ecosystems (Libby, Kindle, Kobo, etc) and alleviate some of those frustrations.