Looking for a global overview of this version ? I've got you covered 🤠
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Categories/channels
- Added ability to sort categories: alphabetically, last used, most frequently used, random (randomized on Projectivy start)
- Added ability to define the max items count per row
- Added ability to set a category as default so that it's automatically selected on startup/home button press
- Added ability to hide Categories above the focused one
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Cards
- The size, focus effect (nothing, drop shadow, glow) and focus animation of the focused card are customizable
- Added ability to enforce background on semi-opaque cards ("on" by default, effects will be disabled when not enforced)
- Improved channel programs details (season, episode, year, duration, author...)
- Added channel program watch progression on card
- Added video previews on cards where supported (ex: Haystack News)
- Added ability to decide when video preview should be displayed on hover (never, always, only when no media is currently playing)
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Settings panel
- Refactored the settings panel
- Most settings screens wrap top/bottom (ex: when you press up on the 1st setting item, it will focus the last one)
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Power
- Added an option to start screensaver on user idle (along to standby and power off)
- Added an alternative shutdown mode (double press power)
- Added an option to also execute autostart app/channel when resuming from standby mode
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Other features / UI Improvements
- Added idle mode on launcher screen after 2 mins to fade icons and prevent screen burn-in (set opacity to 1.0 to disable)
- Added left headers customization (icon, title, settings can be disabled individually)
- Added ability to hide the Settings icon (should you accidentally hide the settings card, you can always open the settings panel by entering this sequence on your remote control: ↑→↓←↑→↓←)
- Added background/shadows on statusbar icons/clock to improve readability above white colors
- Improved RTL support
- Improved Internal Tv View : host device's remote control should work (ex: you can control your Shield with your Tv remote control)
- Improved global UI perf and memory usage : scrolling on the launcher should be offer a smoother experience on low end devices
- Improved startup time : rewrote large parts of the code related to data and cards loading for more speed, delayed the fetching of channel/programs in user custom categories (not so common) to a second loading pass so as to display most categories and cards faster
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Wallpapers
- Added customization of wallpaper update delay
- Added Lottie animation support
- Added video support (head to https://pixabay.com/collections/looping-wallpapers-21451878/ for a list of more than 70 small looping videos, or https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews for a list of landscape videos)
- Added ability to define if video wallpapers should ignore the update delay (if set, it will wait until the end of the video to change the wallpaper, no matter the timer events)
- Added ability to blur wallpapers (leading to interesting effects on any wallpaper source)
- Added an option to define how to display wallpapers: automatic, crop, stretch, blur
- Added an option to define how to display wallpapers with wrong ratio (portrait) or low quality : skip, crop, stretch, blur
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Wallpapers providers (premium)
- Improved "Reddit" -> custom subreddits can be specified manually
- Improved "User defined" -> you can now also pick a video (rtsp is supported) or set a remote url
- Improved "dynamic colors" -> more natural color transitions, less cpu intensive, reacts faster
- Added "folder picker" -> every picture, (supported) video and lottie animation in this folder will be played randomly
- Added "selected program card" -> will set the wallpaper according to the currently focused card
- Added "random program" -> will display random wallpapers based on your available channels/programs, the statusbar (and "about this wallpaper") will also offer direct link to open it
- Added plugin support -> developers can now create their own wallpaper providers that will send wallpapers to Projectivy from the source they want, depending on different events (timer, focused card, launcher entering/exiting idle mode, now playing media changed...). More info here : https://github.com/spocky/projectivy-plugin-wallpaper-provider
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Localization
- Added Czech localization (thanks M.L.M.)
- Added Arabic localization (thanks KaBoS.)
- Added Polish localization (thanks meciasek, TRK88)
- Added Persian localization (thanks kaambiz)
- Added partial Swedish localization (thanks Lukas Sundström)
- Updated other languages localization (thank you all)
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Misc Fixes
- Fixed some notifications that were not visible
- Correctly identify the current launcher to prevent stopping other apps when "override current launcher" is set
- Fixed ability to reenable inputs after they've been disabled
- Updated wording in a few places
- A low more not listed here...
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The quick bugfix 4.51 contains the following
- Fixed user custom folder wallpaper crash when no folder is selected
- Fixed user custom wallpaper crash on settings
- Fixed crash if no mobile app is present on the device
- Fixed crash when changing sort type on an invisible category
- Fixed wallpaper not refreshing immediately after changing settings
- Added ability to choose statusbar icons container opacity
- Added alternative AMLogic settings (thanks @qwerty12)