Mir gefällt die Essentials Tastatur optisch sehr, muss aber sagen, dass ich sie aktuell kaum aktiv benutze, da Dinge wie Glide Typing leider fehlen. Dafür gibt es ja, glaube ich, bereits Open-Source-Algorithmen, weshalb ich mir sehr freuen würde, wenn die Tastatur in dieser Hinsicht weiterentwickelt wird, sofern das möglich ist.?

Die Essentials App ist aber schon jetzt die beste Android App und Sameerasw mit Abstand der beste Entwickler! 💚 Vielen Dank!

Google quietly resurrects a Pixel gesture we first spotted over a year ago and making it even more better

The Pixel double-tap-to-lock feature could work from the home screen too.

✅ Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-double-tap-lock-android-17-qpr2-beta-3-3699094

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Essentials features getting sherlocked and I ain't even mad

We've all seen how underutilized HiLight is on the new Pixel 11 Pro series. Right now, it only lights up for Gemini and calls from favorite contacts, and the only other use we've heard of is a future update enabling text messages from favorite contacts.

However, I think HiLight has the potential to be far more fun and useful. Here are a few ideas that I have:

1. Video/audio recording light. Any time microphone permission is used (as is done in most videos), display a red blinking light just like on dedicated cameras and audio recorders. Variation of Becca Farsace's idea in her Pixel 11 camera overview video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmdT12aICmo)

2. Charge status: When the phone is fully powered off, show a red light for charging and show a green light for fully charged. Basically similar to what many Android phones used to do back then.

3. Good ol' classic notification LED: just like the old days, when all phones had notification LEDs.

4. Third-party API: This has been reiterated before, but I just want to re-emphasize it here. I'd be very interested to see how different ends would utilize this.

Google (and third party apps) could also play with gradients, different blinking patterns, etc. for different use cases.

WearOS launcher demo

Flashlight effects

⬇️ Release note

What's New?

• CTS gesture zone width
• Automations
  • New editor
  • Open App
  • Hotspot
  • WiFi & Data
  • Auto brightness
  • App freezing
  • Test actions
  • Discard confirmation
• WearOS
  • Launcher support
  • Notification overlays
  • Call controls
• QS tiles
  • Smart Pixels with intensity control (Many of you asked)
  • EoD
  • Merge USB and Wireless debugging
  • Flashlight effects
• Smart Pixel
  • Fade in & out
  • Auto shift

>And a little easter egg, not so well hidden

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Should I still keep it? This is only utilizing NFC and the receiving device does not need the app, Just need NFC.

Very very experimental in the early stages.

And waiting for the update from Google to be available, I know I am always the last to receive such cool features (-_-)

https://reddit.com/link/1vkcq7k/video/dnli937qmhih1/player

Why?

• Custom notification sounds
• Match material you colors with Android
• Better unread notifications
• Better media player

And was wondering many other things which could be improved but was not possible.

Why not?

This does bring a few drawbacks tho.

• Replacing the default launcher on wearOS means you need to replace everything!
• Notification panel, quick settings, watchfaces, tiles, complications, call UI and many other things will be lost and will need to be re-implemented.

But also,

That does mean we have the full control over the device and the UI! We can implement It's pretty much like another OS.

Would you switch? Despite some drawbacks?

What is this?

⬇️ Release note

What's New?

• Easier access to more developer options
  • Prefer GPU for screen compositing
  • Allow overlays in settings
  • Transparent navigation bar
• SurfaceFlinger modifications
  • Reaching further into Android settings by modifying the runtime overlays with surface flinger.
• New networks feature category
  • Network download rate limit
  • Mobile data always on
  • Wireless display certification
• Power and battery feature category
  • Standby apps controls for further power saving
• New feature organization and categories UI
• Group features in categories
• Somethings are not always essential. Automate Essential features.
• App Freezing
  • Freeze automations
  • Toggle auto freeze from app grid
  • Frozen app tags/ categories
  • Filter frozen apps by tags
  • Cleaner frozen apps UI with FAB menu
  • Optional color coded frozen app tags in grid
• Updated searchUI to match Android settings
• GenAI (Gemini Nano)
  • You can now ask on device Gemini Nano to create automations for you
  • GenAI is disabled by default, Enable in settings
  • Not all devices are supported, refer
  • First time use may take some time for the models to download
  • AI will make mistakes, Please review the content
  • This was done mainly to learn how to use these APIs and it was fairly easy. AI is and will not be a main feature of this app unless you want to. Let me know if you really want to see support for other devices with maybe using Gemini API keys or so.
• Added App Functions support for Gemini
  • App functions are not yet public by Google, So you can't really use them until they allow everyone to integrate app functions
  • But, that being said, this allows you to externally control many features of the app
• New in-app help and guides
• Easier access to in-app help and guides from main screen
• Smart Pixels. Save power with OLED displays by turning off individual pixels.
• Extract and use wallpaper accent color before you apply
• Major project refactor, reformat and updated architecture
  • Had some AI credits left and decided to make a plan and fully re-structure the app into a new more readable and maintainable architecture
  • Why? Having 2000+ lines in the main view model was not fun, Nor having the services of each feature placed randomly around the codebase, no proper method declarations, lack of documentation and many other things were bothering me every time I was working on the project.
  • So no, anyone is welcome to contribute and check out the project and you will easily get used tot eh structure of the codebase and also will easily learn where to look for things with the included documentation
• Fix: shizuku stop() command with auth token
• Fix: battery sheet broken translations
• New Wiki! (WIP)
  • I will try to maintain a GitHub Wiki but it is not easy to keep up to the development.
  • Most of the documentation is generated and under review.
  • Contributions are welcome!
• And many many more improvements and fixes, Maybe a couple more bugs to fix later ( ´ ▽ ` )

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It's even the one with AssembleDebug!

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-labs-expand-everything-3696193/