Folio 0.6.7

Added

• Folio speaks Korean: the whole interface, from a community translation by qlife1146, with the newest strings drafted alongside it. A beta translation until a native speaker reviews it; Settings › General › Language lists it, and it follows the phone's language on its own.
• White text reads on a pale wallpaper: Home darkens a little at the top and bottom, the way iPhone does, so the clock, app names, page dots and the buttons beside them stay legible over a dawn beach or a cream painting. The middle of your wallpaper is left as it is, and it steps aside where Folio is already using dark text on Home or already dimming the wallpaper for dark appearance. Settings > Wallpaper & Appearance > Text on Home > Darken behind text turns it off. It is drawn once with the background rather than over it, so a swipe costs the same as before.
• Flipbook, for supporters first: Home pages turn in 3D as you swipe instead of sliding flat, after Barrel by Aaron Ash. Supporters get it from Folio's own source in the Market, and everyone gets it in 0.6.8. Cube or Carousel is picked in Settings › Gestures.
• Folio's backgrounds are real art: Folio ships two woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, Night View of Saruwaka-machi from the Library of Congress and Naruto Whirlpools from the National Library of New Zealand, and Settings › Wallpaper & Appearance is now one grid of everything you can put behind Home: your photo, the art Folio ships, and the art you install. Every one names its artist and its license. The drawn dunes are gone.
• Installed wallpapers keep their credit: Folio shows who made a picture and what it is licensed under wherever that picture is offered, and refuses one that cannot say. Removing it puts back whatever was behind Home before.
• Folio has its own color: buttons, switches, selection and links use Folio Teal, the teal the app icon ships in, instead of Apple's blue. Settings › Wallpaper & Appearance › Accent keeps Classic Blue for anyone who prefers it. Status colors stay as they are, so Wi-Fi is still blue and a warning still amber.
• Folio Beta in the Market: supporters see Folio Beta under Sources, with what you're on, the newest beta and an Update button. It's the same download Settings › Software Update makes: through your supporter code, checked against Folio's own signing key before anything installs, with Update Now or Tonight.
• Made with AI, said plainly: a package whose author says AI helped make it shows an AI-assisted tag beside its developer, which tools helped under Information, and the same on the Get sheet before anything installs.
• A lasting Supporter badge: back Folio with $15 or more and Settings › Supporter carries a Folio Supporter badge with the month you started. It stays after the code runs out, and after you remove the code. Nothing about it leaves your phone: the code says so, and Folio reads it offline.
• Refresh Icons: Settings › Icons & Side Bar loads your icons again, for one that a theme app changed and Folio still shows the old way.
• Supporters in Settings: a page beside Credits listing the people who backed Folio and said their name could be there, newest first. The list is a public file Folio fetches like the Roadmap, so a name can go on or come off without an update.

Changed

• Large text and right-to-left languages: rows that held text at a fixed height now grow with the text instead of cutting it off, and back and disclosure chevrons point the right way in Arabic and Hebrew.
• A proper welcome to the Market: the first time it opens, the Market says what it is in three rows (packages, the sources you choose, and what is checked before anything changes), then lets you pick how Featured looks. Two steps instead of three, and it no longer says adding a source is coming later.
• TalkBack keeps up: it says the new Home page when a swipe lands, and reads a Dynamic Island notice when it appears.
• Release notes you can read: What's New draws a release's notes properly now, so a line can stress the word that matters, put a name in italics, or link to the page that explains it, instead of showing the markers around them.
• Folio's own buttons, menus and alerts: the work-profile, update, retry and Add widget buttons, the folder's move menu and Rename app are Folio's controls now rather than Android's. Labels wrap instead of ending in "...", and the blues and reds they use were picked so the words stay readable on every background.
• Panes fit the screen: the Market and Settings show as many panes as the window has room for, the way iPad's App Store and Settings do. On a Fold's inner screen that's two: a package, a source or a nested setting opens over the list with Back, and the Market's list uses the whole width, in two columns. Three panes are for windows 1200 dp and wider.

Fixed

• Apps can't sneak widgets onto Home anymore: a widget or shortcut only gets added once Android has actually approved it, so an app faking an Add to Home Screen request gets turned away.
• Your background is decoded once, not three times: on a cold start Home, the wallpaper preview and Folio's live wallpaper each read your background picture from disk and each kept its own copy in memory, because the shared copy was only ever filled in by the photo picker. They share one now, which is roughly twice the memory back on every start.
• Android's wallpaper drifts the right distance: with Android's own wallpaper behind Home, Folio asked it to slide the full width of your pages. A still picture has no spare width to slide, so it moved further than it could and the system squashed the difference. Folio now spreads the drift the way Android's own launcher does, and uses the full travel only for a live wallpaper, which can draw itself as wide as it likes.
• The island lets go of a card it was told to drop: swiping a message or notice away from the Everywhere overlay, or an event arriving for a kind you had turned off, used to leave the previous card on the island until the next event happened along. And an island dragged to the bottom edge is kept where you can still reach it.
• A menu opens on its row, and a tap anywhere closes it (#117): every pop-up menu of choices was drawn in the middle of the screen instead of under the row you tapped, and nothing but Back would close it, because the menu's window covered the whole screen and took the taps meant for what was behind it. Menus now hang from the control that opened them, flip above it near the bottom of the screen, and close on a tap outside.
• The Settings search field takes the keyboard unfolded (#117): tapping it opened the keyboard and closed it again, and nothing could be typed. Settings was reading the room the keyboard left as a smaller screen, folding its two panes back into one, and the list holding the field you had just tapped went with them. The keyboard covers Settings now instead of resizing it.
• The Market holds its shape while you type (#117): opening the keyboard, to add a source or to search the Settings tab, moved the tabs from the sidebar to the edge and took the pane beside the list away until the keyboard went again. The Market was reading the room the keyboard left as a smaller screen, the same mistake Settings made. The keyboard covers the Market now instead of resizing it.
• A beta from the supporters' source can be downloaded. Folio asked for the list of betas with your code but downloaded the file without it, and the supporter service turns those downloads away.
• Double tap on an empty spot works again (#61): every empty grid cell was taking its own taps, and 0.6.5's extra rows made those cells cover most of a page, so the page's Double Tap action never saw the second tap.
• The dock steps aside for Today View (#25): unfolded and upright it sat over Today's widgets and its Edit button. Like iPhone, it now fades away as you swipe there and comes back on Home, so it can't take Today's taps.
• Icons follow a theme that changes them (#19): Folio kept an app's icon until its package, density, language or dark mode changed, and a theme engine changes none of those. Icons now also follow Android's theme and overlay changes, and folding or rotating still costs nothing.
• No more smeared, doubled pages (#12, #35): choosing Android's wallpaper as your background left every swipe painted over the last. The screen starts again with a window that really shows the wallpaper, and Folio draws its own background whenever it isn't.
• The Preview bar no longer covers the App Library: before Folio is your Home app, the space kept for the bar was a guess. It's measured now. Once Folio is the Home app nothing moves, so no one's rows shrink.
• Every Settings page has a way back: unfolded and upright, a top-level page showed only the sidebar button, which doesn't read as a way back. It now shows the sidebar button and a way back to Folio together.