what is up guys my name is Madrid on this video I'm going to show you how to
install the Google picks or two launcher on your Samsung Galaxy S a phone sure
you watch the entire video because I'm going to show you how to fix some of the
errors that you're gonna get during the installation so the first thing we want
to do is down in the description below i have a link that it's going to take you
to the actual 8pk mirror website where you're gonna be able to download the
picture lunch or APK just go ahead and click on that and now this is going to
apply for any pay APK that you download online so i'll just keep that in mind
once you open the site you're actually going to scroll down to the bottom of
the page until you see download APK now there's a new version available you're
gonna get a message right here so you can actually scroll to the bottom of the
page and you can see the different versions since i've been working with
this particular version and that's the one that i installed a couple of weeks
ago and i know it's working well this is what we're gonna use for this this video
so you're gonna go ahead and click on download APK i give it a few seconds
you're gonna have another page that it's gonna download and you should get a
notification down here asking if you want to download it go ahead and click
on download and confirm once the download is completed you can click open
or if you miss that on the top you spring your notification bar down and
click on the download manager you're gonna see the download is completed for
the google android apps' Nexus launcher go ahead and open that up and here you
just give it a few seconds then you're gonna you're gonna have your first issue
here so it's gonna tell you that in order to install the custom apk you're
gonna have to actually go and enable it we're not downloaded this from the
Samsung App Store or the Google Play Store we have to actually click on
enable the unknown sources
once you click ok we have enabled it and it's going to take us back to the
installation so from here you just make sure you have the pixel launcher and on
the bottom right hand side just click on install if everything goes it's expected
it will install but you're gonna have an error because you probably have the
secure folder on and we're gonna cover that in a second so if everything goes
it's expected just click done and we go back to the to the main page main launch
or so so the next thing we want to do is before before we actually open the
launcher we up here to settings and then click on apps we're going to go to the
top right hand side again and click on the fall ops you're gonna have one more
time you're gonna have your default app selection let's click on the home screen
you will have TouchWiz home by default so if we click on pixel launcher we're
gonna set that by default we go back to the home screen and it's gonna crash
right you're gonna get this pixel launcher have stopped and the reason is
because you have to uninstall or disable your secure folder if you don't know
what that is then you probably don't use it so you can go ahead and install it
and anytime you want it you can enable it again let's go back to top right-hand
side we click on the settings scroll down to the actual lock screen and
security settings scroll down a little bit more right under unknown sources
you're gonna have to secure folder we click on that pattern and what we want
to do here is just we want to only install it so here you're gonna click on
more things and on the bottom right-hand on the bottom you click on uninstall
just confirm the uninstall and let it go to the installation once it's complete
you're probably gonna get this option down here we're just going to ask you if
you want to select the launcher you can just click on pixel launcher and it
should work after this if everything went as expected and there you have it
the first thing you're gonna notice is a top right-hand side you're gonna
actually have your little calendar and then you're also going to have a small
notification the weather if you actually present at
once it will open the app itself same goes for the calendar if you want to
change the settings you just hold press on it and you're gonna have the
preference you can enable the calendar events the upcoming flight information
and all the traffic information if you want to get notifications since I don't
really use this I just really just turn this off you're gonna notice that all my
icons are actually gone so I'm gonna have to come back and reconfigure this
just bring all the icons that I usually do is I can just bring them back to the
home homescreen pretty easy to do towards the bottom you're gonna have
your quick launch icons you can actually just the apps you just customized it
would put them in there or just move them around as you desire and towards
the bottom you have the quick search bar from Google search now going into your
app drawer it is pretty similar it's just the icons are going to be smaller
if you want to change the wallpaper this is something else you have to keep in
mind originally it's gonna try to find the wallpapers from actually the google
app and it's not gonna be there so you have to actually go in and install the
app and what you do here is you basically go back to your Google Play
Store search for wallpapers and wallpapers app is gonna be right here
this is made by Google you just install it once installation is complete you
open it and you should see different wallpapers now we go back to the main
page let's go to the wallpapers bottom right-hand side as you can see this time
we don't get the error we get multiple wallpapers to select only thing you have
to keep in mind is that most of these wallpapers are not compatible or at
least they don't work for this phone if I try to select them I'm gonna get an
error saying that it was not able to install it some of them say it will
install with no issues so you just have to play with it at this one just as you
notice you just give me the error I'll go back down to the wallpapers come back
to the Nova wallpapers that I had originally from the previous launcher
this one I can install with no with no issues so overall I have been using this
launcher for about three to four weeks now and I haven't found any issues but
one I guess I have found one issue the only
niche issue that I found is that if I actually hide the notification bar down
here sometimes it's hard to bring it back up so if I open one of the apps for
example and I just scroll up a few times it will not come up so I will have to
basically either turn off the phone not turn up but just I make it go to sleep
or just wait a few seconds until it actually shows other than that it
actually the launcher works great I don't have any issues with the lagging
in fact I think it actually works a little bit smoother compared to the
original stock launcher that it comes with the Samsung Galaxy S a plus so
definitely this is something you can do there's no route required on the phone
something you can install easily and if you don't like you can always just just
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