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Watermark Your Photos, Favorite Features and a lot more in v10.2

23 Jan 17:33
5dd8284

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What's New?

  • Watermark - Add watermarks with EXIF data and your device info to the photos

  • Button remap: Mute media audio, toggle ringer mode
  • Device effects DIY automation (grayscale, AOD ...)
  • #97 System apps tag for app picker
  • Pin favorite features to the top of the Essentials app (Long press any feature)
  • #145 Language independent system notification snoozing (Need re-enabling after you receive a new notification)

QS Tiles

  • Private DNS
  • USB Debugging

Fixes

  • #134 Missing translations
  • Prevent write secure settings check spam
  • #26 Android 11 edge lighting (Only possible with device unlocked)
  • #26 #110 Flashlight pulse fix on unsupported devices with flashlight brightness
  • #128 Foreground service crash on Realme
  • #107 #58 Volume button being handled by shizuku even when screen is on
  • #136 Location reached crash fix
  • #119 Widgets being too tall on certain OEMs
  • Widget color fixes
  • #106 Essentials constantly checking for root if enabled


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Full Changelog: v10.1...v10.2

Battery Widget, AirSync Integration in v10.1

16 Jan 17:30
23ba037

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What's New?

  • Battery widget
  • AirSync integration
  • Fixed notification lighting #112 , #115 (Sorry, I added fine adjustments but forgot to update reading them from settings db)

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Full Changelog: v10.0...v10.1

They say 9 is bad so here's a lot of cool things in v10.0

15 Jan 17:02
8046b20

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What's New

  • DIY - Do It Yourself
  • Pitch black theme #81
  • Expressive UI updates
  • A keyboard no one asked for
  • More caffeinate controls #72
    • Timeout controls
    • QS tile timeout cycling
    • Screen off abort
    • Live activity

New QS tiles

  • Stay awake
  • Maps power saving mode
  • Adaptive brightness toggle #70

Fixes

  • Fixed flashlight tile long press for brightness adjustment
  • Background battery usage improvements
  • Fix background services being crashed on VIVO
  • Reduce log spam with persistent notifications

Notes

  • Bumped minimum version to Android 8

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Full Changelog: v8.6...v10.0

It was broky v8.6

14 Jan 06:05
3ef9b64

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What's Changed

  • float values of new notification lighting adjustments were causing a silent crash breaking the feature. Fixed.
  • You might not have faced this issue as it happens mostly on dev builds.

Full Changelog: v8.5...v8.6

v8.7-beta.1

14 Jan 18:45
2ddeea4

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v8.7-beta.1 Pre-release
Pre-release
  • Stay awake tile
  • Pitch black theme
  • UI improvements
  • Fix flashlight brightness control UI
  • Material expressive settings
  • Min Android 8
  • A keyboard that nobody asked for (just trying things out)
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Full Changelog: v8.6...v8.7-beta.1

DIY coming soon, Root support and more in v8.5

13 Jan 18:38
aca6707

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What's New

  • DIY - Do It Yourself (testing, Enable with developer mode)
  • Root support instead of Shizuku #73
  • Dim wallpaper (DIY)
  • Icon handling optimizations for smoothness
  • NFC tile #59
  • Fine tuning sliders for Notification lighting #87
  • Are we there yet? out of beta

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Full Changelog: v8.4...v8.5

Are we there yet? v8.4

11 Jan 16:22
0ca9e52

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What's Changed

  • Are we there yet? [beta]
  • Fixed #80 persistent notification settings affecting maps power saving mode

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Full Changelog: v8.3...v8.4

Root support [Experimental]

11 Jan 16:27
d55f672

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Pre-release

What's Changed

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This is an experimental pre-release, might be unstable

Full Changelog: v8.4...v8.5-beta.1

Experimental loation alarm v8.4-beta.1

11 Jan 01:30
5aec11b

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Pre-release

What's Changed

  • [experimental] Location alarm
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This is a pre-release, these changes might not reach into the final app and could be unstable.

Full Changelog: v8.1-beta.1...v8.4-beta.1

App name is back! v8.3

10 Jan 21:40
8aacace

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What's Changed

  • Fixed app name getting nuked by an incorrect translation (US lang only)

Full Changelog: v8.2...v8.3