Google TV home screen
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
Recommendation rows, sponsored banners and store tabs. Google gives it priority=2 on category.HOME, which overrides the user preference: disabling it is the only way to impose a third-party launcher.
If you disable it: With no third-party launcher enabled, the television boots to an empty screen.
- Maker
- Category
- Home screen
- Risk
- high
- Profile
- Replacing the home screen
- Size
- 122 MB
What TV Slim does
TV Slim disables it with pm disable-user --user 0 — it is never uninstalled — after a confirmation that lists the side effects. The log keeps the command that undoes it: one click re-enables it.
TV Slim only disables the factory home screen once another launcher is installed. The one it recommends, by the same author: Startlight Launcher, an ad-free home screen.
By hand, over ADB
The same commands, if you would rather type them. The first one disables the package for the main user; the second one undoes it.
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
adb shell pm enable com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx