Folio 0.5.0

Added

• Alternate app icons: choose Olive or Soft in Settings › Wallpaper & Appearance › App Icon.
• Folio shows up as an app: its icon (in the App Library or another launcher) opens Settings, like iOS Settings.
• Clear Badge in an app's long-press menu hides its badge until a new notification arrives.
• Clock & Calendar setting: the apps' own icons, or live icons that are Automatic, Light or Dark.
• Coming Soon in Settings: what's planned next (including Page Effects, inspired by Barrel), with a Suggest a Feature link.
• Version History in What's New, with every earlier version.
• Beta: Layout History saves Home before big changes (restoring a backup, Arrange Like iPhone, restoring an older layout) so you can go back. Settings › Backup.
• Beta: Recent App Dots mark dock apps you used in the last hour, using Usage Access. Settings › Home Screen & Dock.
• Credits for SnowBoard, Apex, Icon Restore, Lynx 2, ColorBadges, Barrel and Contributor Covenant.
• Email the Developer and Buy Me a Coffee (Ko-fi) in Settings › Help.

Changed

• New olive green app icon.
• Glass settings in Wallpaper & Appearance: a Clear, Light, Frosted or Solid style, plus sliders for widget frost, Side Bar frost and the outline.
• Shorter, iPhone-style setup: Home app, notifications, pull-down gestures and a look. Optional permissions are asked where they're used.
• Settings has one list of permissions (Privacy & Permissions) instead of a separate Setup Checklist, and no repeated Home app rows.
• Settings tidied: the Notification Center and Control Center switch sits with their options, page dots and haptics moved to Gestures & Actions, and the Side Bar frost moved into the new Glass settings.
• Live Clock and Calendar icons match the icons around them: light or dark to fit the app icons, the tint color for Tinted, and an icon pack's own Clock and Calendar when it has them.
• Notification Center slides down like iOS instead of zooming, stacks slide apart when you expand them, swipe buttons grow in as you swipe, and cards press down when tapped.
• Built with Android Gradle Plugin 9.4, Gradle 9.7.1 and Kotlin 2.4.20.
• Layouts are checked against real Android phone, foldable, tablet and desktop screen sizes from Android Studio's device list.

Fixed

• Back always closes Spotlight first, instead of sometimes changing the Home page behind it.
• Spotlight's keyboard comes back if it didn't appear when Spotlight opened.
• Unfolded, Settings › Icons & Side Bar no longer shows its Home preview twice.
• Restoring a Layout History snapshot handles removed apps and folders the same way as a normal refresh, so the saved layout always loads again.
• Switching the app icon keeps Folio's place on Home, in the dock and in folders.
• Sharing a theme file to Folio reads it in the background, so a slow or broken file can't freeze Home.
• Spotlight no longer closes when the keyboard drops for a moment while folding, rotating or switching to voice typing.
• Clear Badge stays cleared while an app updates the same notification, and is hidden when badges are off.
• Setup resumes on the right screen after an update.
• Discover's Side Bar follows the Glass outline setting.
• Holding the side key opens Folio's assistant picker on phones that start the assistant through a voice interaction service (like One UI 9). Folio asks Android not to share the current app's screen with it, and the Side Key page warns when Good Lock's RegiStar can override the key.
• The live Clock icon no longer occasionally stays a normal icon.
• An app's long-press menu no longer cuts off its last row when Clear Badge is showing.
• Spotlight's Cancel hides the keyboard and has a bigger touch target.

Known issues

• During setup, the screen can go blurry and stop responding, and only a restart clears it: a sheet opened while Folio was behind a system permission screen stays invisible while still taking every tap. If it happens, restart the phone; setup works afterwards. Fixed in 0.6.0.
• Lists and grids are cut off hard at their edges instead of fading out (App Library, Settings, Notification Center, Spotlight and folders). Fixed in 0.6.0.
• On the unfolded screen in portrait, the App Library shows two oversized columns and can cover the Side Bar's status. Fixed in 0.6.0.