I have a Blackview BV5300 Pro smartphone; I managed to root the phone to gain administrator privileges and now I want to change the default Blackview launcher which is called BvLauncher.

The main reason for using a different launcher is because BvLauncer has a bug preventing to disable the At a Glance widget. Another bug prevents the resizing of widgets, e.g. I cannot have a 3×3 Etar calendar widget or a 3×3 Termux:widget.

I suspect also that the Blackview launcher is somewhat a spyware, because the operating systems tries in any way to prevent you from disabling or replacing it with other launchers.

Obviously I want an open source launcher, so I ignored the plethora of launcers available on the Google Play store. In the past I used the Rootless Pixel Launcher from F-Droid, but unfortunately the app was not ported for newer Android versions.

Then I came across Lawnchair launcher which seems a very promising open source project. Unfortunately it does not have a build available on F-Droid or other repositories, so I resorted on downloading the Version 14 Beta 2 as an apk file.

Being an open source project (souce code available on GitHub), it is not surprise that you can find plenty of Lawnchair clones on the Google Play store or F-Droid. Often the clone does not even mention being a clone and it does not make the proper attributions. I feel very suspicious (and angry) about that packages, so I avoided them by far. One example of such sospicious packages is Home Launcher.