No, there's no `android:launchMode` default preference defined in application template. According to [<Activity> documentation] **launchMode** defaults to standard if not specified. What this default case does is that it removes previously set `android:launchMode` attribute when user specifies an invalid value for `launch-mode` in **config.xml**. It is essentially the same as setting it's value to **standard**.

That case shouldn't happen when `launch-mode` is not specified or is one of the allowed values.

The code is similar to `findOrientationPreference` which was already there. I just wanted to use the same coding style.