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Minor update with circle to search and gesture bar automations in Essentials v13.1

18 Apr 16:14
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What's new?

  • Circle to search
    • In button remap
    • When gesture bar is hidden
  • Gesture bar automations
    • Auto show on launcher (an attempt to fix animations, Still not perfect)
  • Fixed some incorrect permission assignments
  • More minor fixes

Image context: This is how it looks like when you circle to search 5 times on top of another LOL

Also 3 days 3 updates... Gonna take a little break unless I break something which is highly likely (*≧▽≦)ノシ))
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Full Changelog: v13.0...v13.1

Glove mode, Disable QS, Statusbar customizations, hide gesture bar, Pixel notification lighting, Flashlight pulse intensity and a lot more in Essentials v13.0

17 Apr 20:13
e0d3b63

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What's new?

  • Glove mode (+ QS tile)
  • Enhanced lock screen security with QS disabled
  • Advanced statusbar customizations
  • Hide gesture bar
  • New Pixel notification lighting effects
  • Flashlight pulse brightness intensity
  • Random shapes in ambient glance toggle
  • SystemUI force restart
  • New statusbarManager for handling all related shell commands
  • Improved QS tile activation logics
  • And more improvements and fixes

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Some of these features might be exclusive to Google Pixels as they are triggered by the system rather than the app itself.

Also note that most of new features require Shizuku

  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #340
  • Develop - translations by @sameerasw in #343
  • Develop - Flashlight pulse intensity, random ambient glance shapes toggle, glove mode, systemui restart, disable qs, statusbarManager, advanced statusbar customizations, system notification lighting, improve tile logic by @sameerasw in #345
  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #344
  • Develop - translations by @sameerasw in #346

Full Changelog: v12.7...v13.0

FIX FIX FIX in Essentials v12.7

16 Apr 21:36
604a6a8

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What's New Fixed?

  • Keyboard crash when trying to generate suggestions
  • Ambient display in notification lighting locks the device
  • Always go back to default tab before exit
  • Button remap flashlight haptic feedback does not respect selected option
  • Tile service responsiveness
  • Volume buttons overrides camera inputs
  • And a few more minor fixes
  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #333
  • Develop - Translations & a fix by @sameerasw in #339
  • Develop - Fix keyboard crash, ambient display lcok, default tab back navigation, button remap haptics, tile service responsiveness, vol buttons in camera by @sameerasw in #341

Full Changelog: v12.6...v12.7

Essentials is now verified? Usage access alt, ambient music updates, new notification lighting animation, qs tile categories and more in Essentials v12.6

12 Apr 15:16
9461069

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What's New

  • Essentials is now verified by the new Android Developer Verification program. Hope this helps with installation with upcoming sideloading restrictions.
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  • New notification lighting effect

  • QS tile categories

  • Shape effects for album art in ambient music glance

  • Many improvements to ambient music glance and fixes

  • Update note onboarding

  • You can use usage access permission instead of Accessibility for

    • Freeze
    • App lock
    • Dynamic nightlight
      features. Enable in settings.
  • A lot of translations

  • And a ton of minor improvements and bug fixes

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Re-uploaded to fix crash at launch. If you are experiencing this, please re-download and install the APK.

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Full Changelog: v12.5...v12.6

Material Expressive UI overhaul, Frozen apps and Are we there yet updates and more in Essentials v12.5

31 Mar 22:52
df4d28f

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What's New?

  • An attempt at fixing the overflowing bottom toolbar
  • A lot of Material 3 Expressive UI component updates instead of custom components.
  • Your Android
    • Diagnostics and Device check for Pixel devices (Battery & storage health + hardware & sensor testing)
    • Fix crash for some devices
    • Note: device detection might still have misses, Will try to fix soon as it's mostly due to GSMArena discovery

  • App freezing
    • You can now search apps
    • Added app context menu (long press) to unfreeze or even remove easily
    • Add shortcut to home in long press menu
    • Made the dedicated frozen apps activity the same as the freeze tab UI
  • Are we there yet
    • Full redesign
    • Ability to save destinations
    • Customize destination details
    • ETA
  • More improvements and fixes

Full Changelog: v12.4...v12.5

Hotfix for Your Android Crash v12.4

25 Mar 13:17
b09dda5

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What's Changed

  • The Your Android crashing as the saved data tot be db causing issues with missed skip annotations for the optimized build. Fixed.

Full Changelog: v12.3...v12.4

App Suspension, Kaomoji, Language picker, Accented Characters in keyboard, Custom DNS, Low Power Mode Automations and more in Essentials v12.3

24 Mar 18:23
9e34300

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What's New?

  • App suspension #245
  • Kaomoji in keyboard
  • In-app language picker
  • Accented characters in keyboard #251
  • Low power mode automation #250
  • Custom DNS records #262
  • Time based scheduling in DIY #250
  • Improved device info search and caching specs #266
  • Built-in user feedback

I'm back! ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ

Fixes

  • fix: ESSENTIALS-9 missing bluetooth permission
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-N foreground service crash
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-14 Security exception for media controls
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-3H thread loop on Native SIGSEGV in AmbientDreamService (Android 9/MediaTek)
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-29 absent path method crash on Android 10
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-16 ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException on Android 14
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-K IllegalArgumentException screensaver clock crash after ending
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-P CameraAccessException for flashlight
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-2E in widget provider null pointer crash
  • fix: Remove unnecessary night light logs and checks
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-H security exception on capturing bt name
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-X Google maps app not found crash
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-4B Vol long press runtime exception with permissions
  • fix: ESSENTIALS-2K modifyign system props not allowed for statusbar on some OEMs

  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #276
  • Develop - Translations by @sameerasw in #290
  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #291
  • Develop - App suspension, Improved device model matchign and caching, accented keyboard characters, low power and time based schedules in DIY, Custom DNS records by @sameerasw in #292
  • Develop - kaomoji, in-app lang picker, user feedback, and a lot of bug fixes. by @sameerasw in #294
  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #293
  • Develop - translations and fixes by @sameerasw in #295
  • fix: kaomoji loading in optimized builds by @sameerasw in #297

Full Changelog: v12.2...v12.3

Onboarding, Crash reporting, Full translation and more in v12.2

06 Mar 12:44
70f461c

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What's New?

  • New app onboarding
    • Acknowledgement
    • Preferences
    • Help and how to
    • A little Easter egg :)
  • App crash reporting (Sentry)
  • Full translation
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    • These full translations were done from word-to-word translations so some might not be accurate
    • If you find any that doesn't represent the meaning well, please contribute and update the translations
    • https://crowdin.com/project/essentials-android
  • Avoid progressive blur on unsupported devices
  • Avoid progressive blur on power saving
  • Auto freeze app list text color fix #264
  • Fix bottom toolbar in certain languages
  • Fix app theming inconsistencies
  • More fixes and improvements

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Full Changelog: v12.1...v12.2

Your Android, Expressive UI with blur, More root improvements and fixes in v12.1

02 Mar 17:49
1fc2f4e

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What's New?

  • Your Android
  • New expressive UI
  • Progressive blur in the UI (Android 13+, Can be turned off)
  • Use Shizuku for Pixel charging optimization QS tile
  • Generalize using Root alternative for all Shizuku use cases
  • Fixed occasional crashes in release builds with the new charging QS tile
  • A lot more fixes and changes

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Samsung devices (Android 15) seem to have broken the progressive blur implementation of Android so it's disabled for those devices.

Full Changelog: v12.0...v12.1

Dynamic AOD, Charging Qs Tile and more stuff in v12.0

28 Feb 19:34
f693760

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What's new?

  • Dynamic AOD: Automate AOD based on notifications
  • Charging optimization QS tile (Pixel)
  • Keyboard: Delete clipboard entries
  • Developer options QS tile directly opens in settings
  • Developer option: Auto grant accessibility
  • App lock light theme support
  • More fixes, improvements

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  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #240
  • Develop - Charging optimization, Delete clipboard history, Dynamic AOD, Auto grant accessibilit, Light theme app lock and more by @sameerasw in #246
  • New Crowdin updates by @sameerasw in #244
  • Develop - Developer options directly open when qs tile long pressed, splash with branding and translations by @sameerasw in #247
  • fix: Themed icon in app drawer by @sameerasw in #248

Full Changelog: v11.6...v12.0