Folio 0.6.0

Added

• Badge options: an iOS, Classic or Glass look, three sizes, and blue, green, orange and purple colors, with a live preview (Icons & Side Bar).
• Folder options (columns and a glass, solid or clear background), app name size, and Animation Speed (Relaxed, Standard or Snappy).
• Side key: choose what holding it does: Folio's picker, a Google search without AI Overviews, or talking straight to Google, Claude or Perplexity (Side Key page).
• Software Update: check GitHub for a new Folio, download and install it after verifying its checksum and signing key; optional daily checks, update notifications and automatic installs.
• Roadmap in Settings (replaces Coming Soon): what's in this update, what's next, later and being explored.
• Tweak Library: tweaks are packages you Get (Sileo-style) and only the ones you get show in Settings › Tweaks. New installs start with none; updating keeps the tweaks you already use.
• Hidden apps stay out of the App Library, like iOS: they're listed in Settings › Search & App Library after you unlock with your fingerprint, face or PIN. A Work Apps switch hides the Personal and Work toggle.
• Left of Home can be None (Settings › Today View), alongside Today View and Google Discover.
• Support Folio in Settings, for buying me a coffee on Ko-fi.
• Save Backup and Save Theme go straight to Download/Folio; backups can be named (the default is dated).
• Fold transition: a light tick as the hinge passes halfway, a soft light sweep and a slight settle in size as the open screen clears, and a Preview slider in Fold & Displays to see the effect without folding. Phones whose hinge sensor reports in-between angles follow the real angle. Ideas from FoldFX.
• Beta Updates in Software Update: choose Folio Beta to get GitHub pre-releases too. Turning it off keeps your beta until a newer public release.
• Other notifications in the Dynamic Island (off by default): new notifications from apps you choose pop up in the island like messages, following each app's alert settings, Do Not Disturb and "Don't double up with Android pop-ups". Choose apps in Dynamic Island › Other Notifications.
• Swipe an island pop-up up to hide it early, on Home and over other apps; it stays in Notification Center.
• Finish Setting Up: if required setup is left, a card on Home brings you back (not on the first day; Not Now waits three days; never again once setup is finished), and Settings shows a progress ring.
• Folio's own short messages (an app that won't open, a panel Android couldn't open) show in the Dynamic Island instead of a toast when the island is on screen.
• Status styles for the Side Bar: Rings (battery, Wi-Fi and cellular as Activity-style rings) and Ring with Percentage, alongside Ring, Icons and Battery only.
• A red bell in the Side Bar while the phone is on silent or vibrate, like iPhone (Icons & Side Bar › Silent mode icon). "Color battery when charging or low" is now "Status colors" and covers it.
• Rounded screen corners (Wallpaper & Appearance › Screen Corners, off by default): black iPhone-style corners over Home with a size slider, for the iPhone Duo look (issue #8).
• Settings opens where you left it, on the same page and scrolled the same, like iPhone Settings.
• Report a Bug and Show Welcome Again moved into Settings › Help, so the main list is shorter; searching Settings for "bug" or "welcome" finds them.
• Screenshot Mode (Advanced): Folio shows 9:41 with full battery and signal and hides notifications, music, messages, device names, calendar events and alarms, for sharing your setup. Turns off by itself after 30 minutes.
• Headphones & speakers: when Bluetooth headphones or a speaker connects, an iPhone-style card shows its name on Home, and the Dynamic Island shows it over other apps.

Changed

• New muted teal app icon. Olive and Soft are alternate icons in Wallpaper & Appearance › App Icon.
• Development builds install as a separate "Folio Dev" app with an amber icon, next to the release.
• Folio no longer asks for the Nearby devices (Bluetooth) permission: headphone and speaker names now come from Android's audio device list.

Fixed

• Home can no longer stay blurred behind a Lock Cover that was turned off while it was about to show.
• Folio's short notices fall back to a regular message while Settings or another sheet covers Home, so they're never hidden behind it, and they don't follow you into other apps.
• The dock no longer overlaps the Side Bar's status when it grows (Focus or Silent icons, the Rings styles); it always starts just below it, including in Discover.
• In jiggle mode, the dock's remove buttons stay inside the Side Bar instead of hanging off its edge.
• Spotlight's Suggestions show whole rows only, so the unfolded screen shows one clean row above the keyboard instead of a cut-off second row.
• Unfolded in portrait, Home's four columns spread across the screen at every Screen zoom instead of sitting in a narrow block with a wide gap (issue #10).
• On phones without Samsung's "Continue apps on cover screen" setting, setup no longer lists it as a required step that can never be done.
• Scrolling lists and grids fade softly at their edges instead of being cut off.
• The App Library on the unfolded screen shows more, phone-sized category tiles (five across in landscape) instead of two giant columns (issue #9), and no longer covers the Side Bar's status.
• Beta labels no longer wrap in narrow Settings layouts.
• Turning on Folio gestures explains Android's "Allow restricted settings" step for apps installed from a file, with a button to App Info.
• Friendlier setup: Folio's own icon on the welcome page, Skip on every step, setup moves on by itself after you allow something, clearer tips at the end, and choosing a wallpaper no longer restarts the screen.
• Phone-sized screens keep the phone layout when Developer options' Smallest width or Display size is changed (a Fold8 cover set to 600dp got the unfolded layout, with the dock at the bottom and wide margins).
• Folders take more than two apps from the app menu: Create Folder becomes Add to Folder once you have one, listing your folders first.
• Scrolling lists fade at their edges more softly, and the fade grows in as you scroll instead of popping in.
• App Library folders open without building every app at once, and holding an app there opens its menu.
• Setting Folio up no longer leaves the screen blurred and unresponsive. A sheet opened while Folio was behind a system permission screen could stay invisible and still take every tap, so Home sat blurred with no way out but a restart. Sheets now always appear, and the Home button closes anything that's open.
• Setup and full-screen Settings pages are smoother: Home no longer blurs behind a page that covers it, which was work nobody could see.
• Message pop-ups can be handed back to Android: every messaging app in Dynamic Island settings has a button to its own notification settings, both ways, and that list stays reachable while the island is off. Apps switched to the island used to end up with no pop-up at all and no way back.
• With Dock Magnification on, sliding along the side dock no longer opens Spotlight.
• The fold preview in Settings shows one Side Bar, like the open Fold, instead of one on each page.
• Folio's own screens always show its real icon; only the Folio Dev launcher icon is amber.
• Back in Settings returns to the page you came from, such as Tweaks or Focus, instead of the top of Settings.
• Unfolded in portrait, going back to the top of Settings opens the settings list again instead of a mostly empty page.