Get the Google Experience Launcher on your Samsung Galaxy Note 3

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Love the Google Experience Launcher but need a removable battery, SD card access, or a S Pen? Or are you waiting on your Nexus 5 to ship? Either way, let’s side load the GE Launcher onto your current device. Thanks to Android Police providing the APK files, it is very easy and you can’t mess anything up being you are just installing two APK files. I used my unrooted, stock AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for this test.

Easy step by step instructions:
(Disclaimer: As always, you are responsible for anything you do to your device, not Android Fan Network or myself)
1.)Go here and here to download the two APK files.
2.)Install the Google Search APK
3.)Install the Launcher APK
4.)Enjoy!

So far it is fully functional for me, the only exception is I can not launch voice search from the home screen with “OK Google” command. But I can use Google voice search by simply pressing the embedded icon on the wallpaper. I can also swipe from the left to access Google Now, which I prefer anyways. All settings, wallpapers, and widgets that I have tested so far are working also.
Chime in below if this could replace TouchWiz, Nova, or your favorite launcher. I am excited being the biggest annoyance of TouchWiz to me was the fact that Google Now was masked by S-Voice(which I cannot stand), and this launcher eliminates that.

APK Source: Android Police

About Gavin Hall

Gavin is an awesome husband and a fan of anything that makes beep beep noises.

  • David

    Saying “Ok google” works great on my note3. Totally stock also.

  • David

    But no texting from hangouts.