Once that's done, place the file in the root of your internal storage (/sdcard/).Īfterwards, start ADB. sh (you can either change it with Notepad or Notepad++ in your computer, or you can just change it on your phone using your file explorer's renaming function). You'll need to change the file extension to. Paste it somewhere on your phone or directly in your PC. Locate the "appwidget" file and copy it to your clipboard. Navigate to the phone's root, and then go to /system/bin. We recommend the awesome, free MiXplorer from our forums. This method was discovered by XDA Senior Member DragonFire1024 over on our Amazon Fire forum.įirst of all, fire up a file explorer with root/partition support (we don't need root to use it since we're having a look at the read-only system partition). However, how can you use widgets on that launcher? You generally need root for doing this, but luckily, you can use the magic of ADB in order to set them up correctly. With that out of the way, you should now have a working custom launcher on home button press. That means you can use launchers like Nova Launcher and Evie Launcher, but you can't use the Google Now Launcher or any other that requires it to be default. Also, make sure that your launchers do NOT require it to be set as default. This tool takes advantage of the Accessibility settings of your Amazon phone or tablet in order to function properly, so make sure it's properly set up at Settings > Accessibility > To detect home button press. This tool was made by XDA Member BaronKiko, based off the original code of parrotgeek1, so all credits go to both of these developers! Once that's done, you'll need the Launcher Hijack tool available in our forums. We don't really need it right now, but it's still nice to have it in advance. In case you haven't done it yet, please refer to this tutorial in order to set things up in your device. Use a Custom Launcher With Widgets on Fire OS Without Root Part 1 - Setting up Custom Launcherīefore we start, as we just said, you will need to set up ADB.
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