Review of Wolf Launcher / ATV / Basic launcher

Channels Android TV
#1

I did not like seeing a drag queen, a woman in leotards, and services I dont haveon my home screen. It was my final straw. I included a picture of ugly ru paul and clean wolf launcher. I am not endorsing wolf launcher. Use at your own risk.

So I went down the rabbit hole last night.

*Basic Launcher
Looks like scaled back version of Old shield interface. One row has all your apps. Then a second row for "favorite apps". Most basic, simple, and uncustomizable. It works. There's NO ADS. It looks like what your used to. Available on app store.

Wolf &ATV launcher
ATV Launcher is good, but last updated 3 years ago. Wolf Launcher is a posted/updated version of this. Wolf is available on play store. But it crashed on me 1 time. That one time was enough.

Wolf is available from some douche nozzle on youtube. I was leery trying apps that are not on play store, source force or other reputable sites. There are hundreds of reviews on reddit (mostly from fire tv users). I scanned it with 2 different anti viruses. It IS NOT on play store.

I love it. You make categories. Control icon sizes, you need to do some USB debugging to get widgets working. Personally don't bother. Only widget i got working was weather. All it did was take up space on screen. You can do custom backgrounds, I

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#2

I don't have RuPaul, so they're probably just making suggestions based on other content you've watched.

:wink:

#3

Don't ask, don't tell..........

#4

not a fan of third party launchers.
They often hurt performance and are buggy and not as smooth and janky to use.
not to mention, always a fight for dominance over the native launcher.

I would be more interested in finding a way to lock or make default the Apps tab page on the native launcher. That has no adds and just shows you all your apps, which is what i want.

#5

: i find dozens of launchers in the app store one can use.
Not sure what "Basic Launcher" one u refer too, can u provide link?
I find "Basic Tv Launcher" by Dhairya Tripathi, but its nearly a year old now.
It has no options to move app icons around and is very very basic.
and pressing the home button still loads the native launcher

#6

Basic TV launcher was the one i tried.