Android Tips And Tricks: How To Make A Third-Party App Your Phone's Default App

For our Android tips and tricks for today, we will learn how to make a third party application as your default app when you launch a particular task. Android may already be preloaded with useful apps such as SMS, Internet, and different clocks, but in case you are looking for more flexible options then you may want to change your default app whenever you launch these applications. 

Here are some simple steps you may take:

1. Connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or mobile data and launch the Play Store app. There, you can type the particular app you are looking for on Play Store's search box. Pick the application you want and install it. 

2. Once you're done with the installation, choose or launch the particular that corresponds to the app you recently installed. For example, if you downloaded Chrome browser from the Play Store, the app you need to launch is 'Internet'. And because you have more than one Internet browser in your device, tapping the Internet application will result in a pop-up box saying 'Complete Action Using', and then lists down the available applications which corresponds to the Internet app. 

3. Choose the particular app you want to set as your default app, (in this case Chrome), and then choose 'Always' or 'Use by default for this action', depending on your Android version. Now, you have set a third-party app as your default app. You can do the same thing with your homescreen, Messages, Clock, Calculator, Weather, etc. 

For Advanced users:

If you think you do not need the original Android stock app anymore, you can either 'freeze' it or completely uninstall it from your device. However, you will need root access and a special application to do that. Titanium Backup and System Tuner Pro are some of these applications which can free more internal memory storage from your phone.