Once it’s installed you can tap the home button on your Kindle Fire and choose between the Amazon launcher and the GO Launcher. (This is a change from earlier versions of Fire OS, where the launcher used the launcher icon that you uploaded to the developer. For commonality with Android, starting in Fire OS 5, Amazon uses icons from your APK. You don’t even need to venture outside the Amazon Appstore.Īll you need to do is download a free app called GO Launcher EX. The launcher icon for your app (sometimes called an 'app icon') is the icon that a user taps to start your app.
If you’d rather have a different launcher that looks more like the Android interface seen on most phones and tablets, you can do that. That Amazon book case that greets you every time you turn on the tablet? It’s just an app called a Launcher.
OK, now you have all the information you need to install third party apps that aren’t available in the App Store - but here’s something you may not have realized. if you have multiple launchers installed on your Kindle Fire device. Step 5: Once done, tap on the home button and you will be able to see a launcher selection option, i.e. Step 4: Under the Launch by default option, tap on Clear defaults. Hitting Home button while default launcher is up does nothing. It stays like that for 5 seconds or so, then pops back to Nova by itself. Chosen launcher (Nova) appears after reboot, but Home button brings the default launcher back. I just did this and now my Fire looks almost the same as my Droid Bionic. Step 3: Now, find your default launcher, for example, Go Launcher and tap on it. LH hardly works on a new Fire HD 10, 9th generation, running 7.3.1.1 fire os.
In it they tell you how to change the Amazon launcher and use a more “standard” Android one – Go Laucher EX, for example. The best article on modifiyintg your Kindle Fire that I’ve seen is the one just published in Liliputing.