I considered deleting this post, but I'm going to leave it up in case others run into the same issue. A quick rummage through Google found an XDA Developers Forum thread. I was back to the plain old Fire launcher again. It no longer even appeared in the list of apps. I downloaded Launcher Hijack 4 from the post I mentioned above, where a user had to rename the Launcher Hijack app to get around Amazon's block and repacked it into a new apk: Īfter installing this apk, Nova Launcher is working fine. This morning on starting my Fire HD 10, I found a pop-up message saying LauncherHijack had been blocked on this deviceand indeed, even after a reboot, it was no longer working. I didn't realize it's the Launcher Hijack apk that introduces the "To detect home button press" setting into the Accessibility settings page. So my understanding of the Accessibility options was misguided. I wonder if removing the 'To detect home button press' option was another step in this direction.
This post leads me to believe that Amazon is trying to make it harder to make these kinds of tweaks: Ī comment in that post indicates a user at xda-developers had to repack the Launcher Hijack APK to get around some kind of block Amazon had set up. I purchased this tablet last week, has OS 6.3.0.1. I don't believe this is just me, because I found a comment from a month ago where another user indicated that this option had disappeared for him as well, but no further update. That option is simply unavailable under 'Accessibility'.
Nova launcher kindle fire stays as its how to#
I'm following the ubiquitous directions on how to use Nova Launcher, but I get stuck at the step where they say to go into 'Settings -> Accessibility -> To detect home button press'.