The launchers for Android have gone from being optional to occupy the foreground of Android personalization and some have become for many fundamental applications that can not be missing on your Android device. The most inexperienced users, when they decide to try a launcher for the first time, can find one of the most common doubts that we will try to solve here, this is how to change the launcher of your Android mobile .
Once we installed the launcher in our device we were restless thinking a long "and now what?" , Because very simple, the first thing will be to activate the new launcher so that it starts by default .
How to change the launcher of your Android mobile.
With so many versions of Android and so many manufacturers, it is difficult to show unique instructions that work on all phones and tablets. For this reason we are going to separate the method according to its peculiarities.
How to change the launcher in Android 4.4 KitKat or earlier versions.
This version of Android makes things a little more difficult when changing the launcher by default, since we will have to resort to the Home Switch application.
It is a very simple and free application, that once installed we just have to execute it to select the desired launcher and to establish a launcher by default we have to click on "Always" (always).
How to change the Android launcher on Samsung, LG, Sony, HTC, etc. mobile phones
There is a more or less universal method to change the default launcher in Android, which consists in keeping the "Home" button pressed when we are in the main desktop . After a few seconds, when we stop pressing on the button, a list will appear with the available launchers, from which we can select the desired launcher.
I have tried this method on several phones and it has worked at all. It is also true that in some when leaving the "Home" button pressed, the Google logo appears to access Google Now, but ignoring it is sufficient.
If this method does not work, you will have to go to the settings to modify the "Home" or "Home screen" of your smartphone.