Wallpapers

• Added ability to tint/colorize wallpapers
• Added ability to tint the wallpaper shadow overlay
• Added ability to use a solid color as wallpaper
• Added ability to request a new wallpaper by long pressing the "play/pause" button on the remote control
• Changed the wallpaper selection algorithm to limit the chances of seeing one that has already been displayed recently
• Added a "fit-center + blurred background" to show portrait mode picture above the blurred same picture in the background
• Improved wallpaper image transitions and added a few choices : fade, zoom, slide H, slide V, random
• Wallpaper provider [custom folder]: updated to use the wallpaper caching mechanism, which lets it take advantage of the new selection algorithm
• Wallpaper provider [custom folder]: now recursively scans sub-folders (fixes #405)
• Wallpaper provider [Reddit]: removed hard-coded filter on ratio/height. The filtering is now only based on user wallpaper appearance settings (bad ratio/quality preference)
• Wallpaper provider [Reddit]: added a fallback mechanism in case of 403 errors
• Wallpaper provider [Reddit]: added a few new subreddits
• Wallpaper provider [Focused program]: when poster art image is not present, fallback to thumbnail (if available)
• Wallpaper provider [Focused program]: although technically not a "program", now playing card is also used when possible
• Wallpaper provider [Now Playing]: added a new provider that displays the currently Now Playing image (when supported)
• Wallpaper provider [Theme]: added a new provider that fetches wallpapers from the applied theme (the .pltheme file -in zip format- should be in STORE mode, no compression)
• Wallpaper provider: CardFocused event now also sends the card's title and app's package name to the providers (cf: spocky/projectivy-plugin-wallpaper-provider#5)
• Wallpaper provider: Added ability to request wallpapers refresh if their settings have been updated outside Projectivy (ex: Aerial Views)
• Decreased the minimum wallpaper update delay to 30s (fixes #396 #130)

Wallpapers (video)

• Added ability to extract dynamic color from video wallpapers
• Added preference to define how often the video wallpapers should generate new dynamic colors
• Added ability to use hardware rendering (tunneling) on video wallpapers (depending on your device and the video format, this might not work as expected)
• Video wallpaper will now resume from its last position when returning to the launcher (provided that it lasts more than 30s and its position is further than 10s from the end)
• Fixed "about / this wallpaper" taking a long time to show with video wallpapers (preview is now disabled)
• Added DASH to the supported video formats
• Added support for RTSPT and RTSPU schemes (RTSPT will force TCP use, RTSP and RTSPU will first try UDP then fallback to TCP)

Cards

• Fixed initially selected card was not animated (in case of Animated Gif)
• Fixed Animated Gif card not automatically stopped when launcher goes idle
• Improved support for animated images format (gif, apng, webp) as wallpapers and custom icons (fixes #322)
• Animated cards (gif, apng...) now reset to their 1st frame on stop (instead of pausing)
• Added ability to disable the ripple effect on card press (fixes #292)
• Added ability to override the focused card tint/background colors (behavior is : no override, swap icon and background colors, custom colors)
• Added a few more glow animations
• Added ability to customize glow size (small glow length will show as a simple outline) (fixes #362)
• Fixed missing shadows under some cards
• Fixed Shortcuts cropping their icon by default and not restoring their crop state upon restart
• Added ability to customize card glow color globally (=not individually)
• Fixed category "show icon in front of title" setting available even if "show title" is disabled
• Added ability to set fully transparent custom icon tint. For example when using the Projectivy Icon Pack if you define a card background color and set the custom icon tint to a fully transparent color, the icon will "punch a hole" in the background, letting you see the wallpaper through it.
• Fixed card size and spacing was dependent on the device resolution (fixes #333)
• Shortcut cards ratio is now set to the same ratio you set for Tv Apps (fixes #406)

Categories

• Added ability to customize category left/right margins (globally and individually) as well as top margin (individually) (fixes #33)
• Added ability to customize a grid category background color aka dock. "Blur" is currently unsupported though, as background animations (video wallpapers, picture transitions) would not be compatible (fixes #368)
• Added ability to define the max number of rows visible in a category
• Fixed last cards on the current row not always appearing in grid mode (fixes #244)
• Fixed missing apps icons in watch next category in some cases and missing apps in the Channels list (ex: Amazon Prime Video) (fixes #98)
• Fixed some channel programs missing when already present in another channel (fixes #348)
• Added ability to scroll categories only when necessary (the focused category won't always be in the same position on screen) (fixes #228)

Statusbar

• Added ability to hide the notification icon (fixes #209)
• Added ability to tint the clock in the statusbar (fixes #115)
• Allow smaller minimal clock size (fixes #329)
• Added ability to resize and tint icons in the statusbar
• Added ability to customize clock format with support for : 2 lines, date formatting, markdown-like styling (beware when adding seconds, as the parser will have to work its magic each... hem... second) (fixes #370)
• Wifi icon now varies depending on the signal strength (fixes #395)
• Added a "Clear all" notifications button on the notification side panel when needed (fixes #355)

UI/UX

• Updated to Material 3 Expressive theming
• Font: added ability to customize Projectivy font (including size) globally (fixes #289 #144)
• Font: added ability to download font from Google Fonts, either by specifying its name or by choosing in a (much too long) list (premium only)
• Added icons to all entries in settings
• Added immediate refresh of the launcher screen when an icon pack or wallpaper plugin is updated/uninstalled
• Fixed cards and left headers not read aloud by talkback accessibility service (fixes #325)
• Fixed Qr-code too small when device resolution is 4k
• Fixed side panel edit category animation stuttering
• Improved side menu navigation : cycling in menu (from top to bottom or the other way around) will only happen on button single press (meaning it will stop on both ends when holding up/down buttons) (fixes #79)
• Fixed cards could be removed from their stock category
• If default category is not available (=hidden, empty...), automatically fallback to the 1st visible category
• When already on the first item of the row, the back button will take you back to the default category (fixes #210)
• The legend icons next to settings depending on the accessibility service will adapt to the current context (ex: turn red if the service is not running, dim when it's running)
• Added folder support through a new dynamic category "category folders" that will list all custom categories as cards. When clicked, their content will show in the side panel (fixes #157)

Misc

• Added ability to import/export themes (=appearance settings, individual stock categories settings, local wallpaper(s)) (premium only)
• Network: Fixed wrong HTTP response code filtering (only 200 was accepted, now all 2xx are accepted) (stupid me)
• Network: Improved network connectivity and performance
• Purchase: fixed a bug that prevented premium to be detected without network in some circumstances (fixes #401)
• Now playing: casted media should should no longer miss artist/album
• Now playing: added play/pause and seek to next/previous media buttons (support may vary per app) on the contextual side panel
• Now playing: card won't disappear if you temporarily pause your media and its description will reflect its state
• Idle mode (launcher): Added ability to define the timeout duration before the launcher idle mode kicks in
• Idle mode (general): general idle detection can now usually detect when a media is playing (experimental, requires the Notification special permission) (this highly depends on the app playing the media, but most apps I've tested work) (fixes #65)
• Idle mode (general): when using the "internal tv view" and the option mentioned above is enabled, the idle mode won't - Install 3rd party apps: updated custom URL text to make it clear that it also supports Downloader codes
• Install 3rd party apps: regrouped apps per category
  trigger regardless of the notification special permission (as this can be detected internally) (fixes #444)
• Added Live Tv support (probably imperfect as it's often depending on the OEM). You need an app such as the deprecated Live Channels app to use it) (this might fix #50)
• Fixed Hdmi inputs sometimes not appearing
• Added optional delay before auto-start app/channel is launched on boot (to let the system finish booting)
• Added ability to prevent screensaver from running while on the launcher
• Fixed "Shutdown action" setting disabled when "power off on CEC disconnect" is enabled
• Improved reliability of "start app upon resuming from standby". The accessibility service will be mandatory to do so (fixes #437)
• Fixed notifications/media sessions listeners still active while Projectivy was in the background, sometimes causing useless cpu work
• Fixed calibration videos not displayed on some devices (eg Mi Stick 4k)
• Improved purchase flow reliability in case of errors
• Added a few localizations (Portuguese-PT, Swedish), a big thanks to all the translators who help make Projectivy truly global (fixes #366)
• Added ability to limit the number of Watch Next programs per app (fixes #403)
• Improved Programs/Channels retrieving logic to prevent useless work in abnormal circumstances
• Fixed font kerning issues on Android 8/9 devices (fixes #384)