Use the Android TV Launcher app to control your Android TV entertainment device.
About Android TV Launcher
Android TV Launcher is a tools app developed
by Google LLC.
The APK has been available since July 2016.
In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded
about 890 thousand times.
It's currently not in the top ranks.
It's rated 3.51 out of 5 stars, based on 810 ratings.
The last update of the app was on July 22, 2016.
Android TV Launcher has a content rating
"Everyone".
Designed for Android version 5.0+.
Android TV Launcher is FREE to download.
Description
Android TV Launcher is the jumping-off point for starting all activities on your Android TV entertainment device.
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★★☆☆☆
The purpose of a launcher is to quickly and easily launch the applications and games you use on a regular basis. The current Android TV launcher is now the worst launcher I have used on any platform. The actual list of apps is small, at the bottom of the screen, only displays a handful of apps, and has no support for organization such as folders, and has now become even more difficult to access. Every update makes this launcher worse, but the last straw was when they decided to throw giant full page ads on the main page. Being a TV, this means you have to manually up press multiple times on the remote through the ad to get from where the stuff I use is, to where the sleep button is. This "update" is completely mandatory too. I have been declining System Updates for over a year and have the Play Store set to not update anything automatically. It was still forced on us. Even uninstalling the launcher back to the original launch version doesn't remove the new ads. The only easy recourse we have is to disable Google Play Services entirely, which I have now done. I have also begun transitioning completely away from the Google ecosystem. If an app no longer runs with Google disabled, I get it from Amazon or side load it. I paid a lot of money for this Android TV device, and I have really enjoyed it thus far. I even bought other Google home devices recently. But Google destroying one of my favorite devices with their forced ads, and doing nothing to remedy the situation despite the major user backlash shows that they cannot be trusted in the future. Never has it been more apparent that we are the product and that our "owner" does not care about us.
★★☆☆☆
Bought an Nvidia Shield to get a nice, powerful device with a clean interface. Google has wrecked that with a 1/3 of the screen advert on the latest update. The usability of the UI has taken a step back. Google, you can give it to us for free with Ads or if we pay for it, you don't get to do ads. Pick one.
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Technologies used by Android TV Launcher
Android TV Launcher is requesting 0 permissions and is using 4 libraries.
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