Folio 0.6.8

Added

• Edit an app's icon on its own: long-press an app, More › Edit Icon, and give that one icon its own style (Default, Dark, Tinted or Clear) and shape, or leave either like the other icons. It shows everywhere Folio draws the icon, Reset Icon puts it back, backups carry the choices, and the icon pictures Folio saves are untouched, so nothing can be left stale. Custom pictures and per-app icon-pack icons are not part of this yet.
• More search engines, and your own: Settings › Search & App Library › Search with Enter now offers Bing, Brave Search, Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant and Kagi beside Google and DuckDuckGo, and Custom…, where you type your own search address with %s where the search goes. Folio checks it as you type and falls back to Google if it can't be used, and only http and https addresses are accepted. The one you pick also gets a chip under a search.
• Add several apps to a folder at once: an open folder has an Add Apps button. It lists your apps with a check each, shows how many you have picked, and Done puts them all in as one change, so Undo takes them all back. Apps already in the folder are shown ticked, and hidden apps stay out of the list.
• Home beside an app in split screen: when Folio is one half of a split screen, it shows a Home page, the one you were on or your last one, instead of the App Library or Today View it was left on. It is one cover-sized page next to your app. Android and your phone decide which half Folio gets.
• Full-Width Home for ordinary phones: Settings › Home Screen & Dock › Layout › Full-Width Home puts the dock along the bottom and turns off the status Side Bar, and Home now uses the whole width instead of leaving the Side Bar's empty strip beside the dock. It is two settings you already had, in one switch, and nothing changes until you turn it on.
• Full-Width Home puts things back: turning Full-Width Home off now restores the dock placement and status Side Bar you had before, instead of going to Automatic, so a dock you set to Side Bar comes back as Side Bar. With both screens in Full-Width Home, the Side Bar returns when the last one is turned off.
• A dock that grows as you fill it: the dock is four places, as it has always been, until you drag an app onto it with every place full: an open place appears at the end, drop there and the dock is a place bigger, up to six. Taking an app out closes the empty place again, never below four. There is nothing to set, and a dock of four is exactly what it was. On a bottom dock bar with more apps than the window has room for, the bar stops at the room it has and scrolls. The bar and the icons ease into their new spacing as a place opens or closes (at once with Reduce Motion), and dragging an app onto a dock that already holds six gives a refusal tick and a short shake. A backup of a four-place dock is unchanged, but a Folio older than this one can't restore a bigger one.
• A layout for the upright inner screen: Settings › Home Screen & Dock › Layout › Inner has Separate layout when upright. Turned on, the unfolded screen held upright gets its own spacing, dock and status settings (starting as a copy of the sideways ones) and the sideways layout keeps its own; turned off, they share one again as before. Nothing changes until you turn it on.
• Choose how Folio feels at setup: a new setup page offers Folio (Dynamic Island, Folio's own Notification Center and Control Center, Spotlight on a swipe down) or Android style (Android's notification shade and Quick Settings, no Dynamic Island). Skipping keeps Folio, and if you already use Folio nothing changes. Each is only a set of existing switches, so everything stays changeable in Settings.
• The notification shade over other apps: Folio Notification Shade and Folio Quick Settings are launchable entries, so a button or gesture action on your phone that opens an app (Samsung's One-hand operation, Routines, a Home shortcut) can pull Android's shade down over whatever is open. They use Folio's gestures service, so nothing is asked for that wasn't already, and without it they take you to how to turn it on.
• Touch and Hold, shorter or longer: Settings › Gestures & Actions › Touch and Hold sets how long you hold an app or widget on Home before its menu opens or it lifts. Standard follows Android, including Samsung's Touch and hold delay in Accessibility, so nothing changes unless you pick Shorter or Longer.
• Add Folio Settings to Home: Settings › Icons & Side Bar › App Icon has an Add Folio Settings to Home button that puts the Settings icon on Home in the first free place, so getting to Folio's Settings is one tap. It reads "on Home" once it is there.
• A switch for Today View's Suggestions: Settings › Today View › Suggestions turns off the row of apps you may want next at the top of Today View, and with it the usage check that picks them. The Suggestions widget and Spotlight's suggestions have their own switches and are not affected.
• Duet, the fold animation as a tweak: Settings › Tweaks › Duet has the fold effect's own page, with a Style (iPhone Duo, Duo, Classic Glass, Deep, Subtle or Minimal), Plays When (opening, closing or both), and Frost, Shade and Tilt sliders beside Intensity and the preview. Fold & Displays links to it instead of carrying the old controls. If you updated from an earlier Folio, you keep the fold you had, which is Duo; a new install starts on iPhone Duo. A package can set Duet's look. Classic Glass, Deep and the style list use code from Duo Fold Live, hingewave and iphone-duo (MIT), credited under Settings › Credits.
• StandBy comes on in more ways: besides half-open like a laptop, it comes on while the phone is charging, turned on its side and set down, in any pose, as on iPhone, and optionally when it stands as a tent on the cover screen. Each is a switch in Settings › Fold & Displays › StandBy. Ideas from nightstand and StandBy-Android, re-created for Folio.
• StandBy on the lock screen: choose Folio StandBy as Android's screen saver from Settings › Fold & Displays › StandBy › Screen Saver, and when the screen turns off on a charger, StandBy carries on over the lock screen while the phone locks as usual. Pick the phone up or swipe up from the bottom to leave. It dims at night and moves the clock a few pixels each minute so it can't burn in. Without it, StandBy on a charger now stays up only until the screen turns off, so the phone always locks.
• Two more Flipbook effects: Inside Cube folds Home pages toward you as you swipe, like the walls of a room, and Stack steps them back without turning. They re-create Cylinder's Cube (inside) by Reed Weichler and Page Squeeze by Beta382, and Settings › General › Credits names both.
• Updates for apps in the Market: an app a source lists, like Keyd, shows Update with the version it goes from and to, instead of Open, when the source has a newer one. Folio checks the download is the same app signed by the same developer before it installs it over the old copy.
• Widgets, one app at a time: the widget picker has a row of app icons across the top; tap one to see only that app's widgets. While browsing, each app shows a single row with Show All for the rest, so an app with hundreds of widgets no longer stands in front of everything else.
• An Accessibility page in Settings: it sits under General, as in iOS Settings, and holds Big Buttons (the larger Back, Home and Recents bar), which used to be on the Dynamic Island page where few people would look. Its options are unchanged.
• Settings search finds the setting itself: searching "badge size", "touch and hold", "dock height", "save backup", "check for updates" and well over a hundred more names now lists the setting and opens its page. Searching a page by its full name, such as "Fold & Displays", works too; the "&" used to make it find nothing. Before, only page names and a fixed set of keywords matched. Each result names the page it opens, and tapping it scrolls to that row and lights it for a moment. A test now fails when a switch, menu or slider has no way to be found.
• Screenshots that move: a package page can show a short looping clip (an animated WebP) in place of a still, and Cabinet, Harborline and Flipbook now do: the panel opening, the dock swelling under a finger, a page turning. With Reduce Motion on, a clip stays on its first frame. A clip over 1.5 MB isn't played.
• Harborline and Afterglow options: each has an Options group on its page in Settings › Tweaks. Harborline: Amount (Subtle, Standard, Strong) for how far the icon under your finger grows, and Tick as you slide. Afterglow (the new name for Colored Albums): Music card and Island sound bars, to choose where the album art's color goes. Everything starts as it was, they are kept when a tweak is turned off, and Reset puts them back.
• Market shows if a package will work: a package's page has a Compatibility card (works with your Folio, needs a later Folio, which screens it covers, what it needs or replaces), and a row in a list says "Needs Folio 0.8.0" or "Inner screen only" under its name. A package that can't be installed on this phone no longer offers Get, instead of failing after you tap it.

Changed

• A cleaner Roadmap: Settings › General › Roadmap shows what is in progress now, what comes next, and what is later, with the releases you already have folded under Shipped. Each item has one status, and one in the current beta says In beta rather than Done. It says when it was last updated, and when it can't reach GitHub it says so and shows the copy saved on your phone.
• StandBy fits phones without a fold: Settings › Fold & Displays › StandBy offers only the ways a phone can use. Half-open, like a laptop and Standing as a tent need a hinge, so a phone without one sees While charging on its side and the screen saver, which work on any phone. Folio asks Android whether the phone has a hinge rather than keeping a list of models.
• Home is ready sooner after Folio starts: Folio loaded every app's icon, one after another, before Home showed any, which took most of a second on a Galaxy Z Fold8. It now loads the apps on Home, in the dock and in Home's folders first, so Home is complete in about a sixth of the time. The App Library and search fill in as the rest load.
• The App Library is ready sooner after a start: Folio saves app icons and names between starts and uses them while an app is unchanged, so after a start the App Library and search are ready in well under half the time (about 0.3 s instead of 0.8 s on a Galaxy Z Fold8). An app that updates is loaded again, and Refresh Icons forgets them all.
• Edit Home Screen gives a tap: choosing Edit Home Screen from an app's menu now vibrates lightly as the icons start to jiggle, like pressing and holding an empty spot on Home does.
• Effects say what they work with: a page effect's page in the Market and its install sheet say it works with Flipbook. Without Flipbook on your phone they say so before Get, with a way to get Flipbook, instead of an error afterward. Try Again and restoring a backup leave an effect off until Flipbook is back.
• Flipbook's effects are on Flipbook's page: the built-in effects and any you add from the Market are listed on Flipbook's own page in Settings › Tweaks, instead of a menu in Gestures & Actions. Choosing one turns Flipbook on, and Settings search finds Flipbook when you type Page Effects.
• A shorter Settings list: the first screen goes from 26 rows to 16. Software Update, What's New, Help, the Roadmap, Credits and Advanced are under a new General page, which also has Language (Android's own per-app language screen). Ko-fi, your supporter code and the Supporters list are one Support Folio row. The Market opens from Tweaks, and Themes from Wallpaper & Appearance.
• Easier to tap: the Discover and All Apps buttons beside Home's page dots and the round buttons in Spotlight look the same, but a finger now has a 48 dp target to land on.
• Settings is ordered like iOS Settings: General and Accessibility come first, Backup is now inside General, the Dynamic Island page opens with the island and its pop-ups before the options for other apps, and the App Icons card starts with Style (Default, Dark, Tinted) and puts Notification Badges last, where its options open. Nothing is renamed and every setting keeps its value. The Brief pop-ups card no longer also shows on the Icons & Side Bar page.
• Colored Albums is now Afterglow: the tweak that tints the music card and the island's sound bars with the album art's color has a new name, in Settings › Tweaks and the Market. Nothing else changes, and searching "colored albums" still finds it.
• One compatibility check for the Market and the installer: whether a package works on your phone (it needs a later Folio, a tweak you don't have, a package that conflicts or one it depends on) is now answered in one place, in the order the installer always refused in, so a package's page can say it before you tap Get.
• Layout History is out of beta: the Beta label is gone from Settings › General › Backup › Layout History. It works as it did, and the snapshots you already have are still there.

Fixed

• Arrange Like iPhone no longer crashes Folio: Settings › Home Screen & Dock › Arrange Like iPhone closed Folio as soon as it found an app for any of the iPhone spots. It now lays out Home's first page and dock as it says.
• Beta Updates says it's for supporters: Settings › Software Update › Beta Updates now says that betas are for supporters and that without a supporter code Folio only finds public releases, instead of saying you're up to date while a beta is out (#239).
• More of Folio in your language: in Korean and Chinese, the setup card, What's New's headings, Settings' Location fields and its Top choice, the Home for tiny cover screens, Lock Cover's buttons, the headphones card and the folder panel are translated, and TalkBack reads the Side Bar, the island rail's call and music controls and the search field's clear button in your language. In English, What's New now says "1 more new feature".
• Dates and switches in your language: in Korean and Chinese, StandBy, the Big Clock, Lock Cover, the Side Bar and Today View show the date in that language's order (10월 2일 금요일, 10月2日 星期五) instead of English order, and Control Center, the island, Settings and the dock chooser say On and Off, Airplane Mode, Cellular Data, Your Apps and Dock Position in your language instead of English.
• Back in Settings goes up a page from the Folio icon too: opened from the Folio icon or Android's settings gear, Settings is a tab beside the Market, and there Back closed everything from any page. It now goes up a page, as it does everywhere else, and closes Settings only from the top.
• TalkBack in Settings: the search field is read as "Search" instead of a nameless edit box, rows on the phone no longer each say "Not selected", and the preview of Home at the top is one picture, "Preview of Home", instead of about 25 of its parts and a made-up battery level read out before General.
• Nothing covers StandBy: while StandBy is up on Home, the island, the headphones card and the setup reminder wait instead of drawing over it.
• Gestures say what they need: a gesture or Control Center button set to Lock or Screenshot, with Folio's accessibility service off, did nothing. A Do Not Disturb action without Do Not Disturb access did nothing too. Each now says what to turn on.
• Safe Mode pauses the Market refresh: while Folio is in Safe Mode, the daily check of your Market sources waits, so a refresh that finds packages is not added to a crash loop.
• StandBy's night text is readable: at night the date, the battery and alarm, and the cards used a red too dim to read (2.2:1 against black). They use brighter reds now, at least 4.5:1, while the big clock keeps its dim red.
• The charging island follows the cable: plugging in at a charge limit, like Samsung's battery protection, shows the charging island and runs your Charging automations, and the battery topping back up at the limit no longer shows the island again with nobody touching the cable.
• StandBy shows more of a song's title: on the cover screen, Now Playing in StandBy puts its controls under the title, so a long title has the card's width and two lines instead of a few letters, and breaks between words.
• Plugged in shows as charging: at a charge limit, like Samsung's battery protection holding at 80%, Android reports the battery as not charging while the phone is still on the cable, so the Side Bar and StandBy showed it as running on battery. They follow the cable now, as iOS does.
• The Market's buttons are easier to tap: Get, Remove, Try Again and the Undo in a banner are full 48 dp targets now. A tap just above Undo used to dismiss the banner instead.
• Packages Folio can't use yet are refused: a package of a kind Folio doesn't support yet, such as a script, offered Get and then installed as nothing, labeled as running a script. The Market now says it needs a newer Folio and doesn't install it; Folio doesn't run scripts.
• Opening a package file shows it again: opening a .foliopkg from Files or a download opened the Market and nothing else, so the package couldn't be installed. Its install sheet comes up now, opening one while the Market is already open no longer lands on Settings, and a package installed from a file is listed under Installed (Opened from Files), where it can be removed. If Safe Mode turned one off after a crash, its row says so and offers Try Again, as a listed package's page does.
• Flipbook turns the way it was designed to: Cube and Carousel drew with their camera about six times too close, so a page shrank to a sliver partway through a swipe instead of turning like the side of a box. The camera sits where it was meant to now, and a page effect looks the same on every phone, whatever its screen density.
• Hidden apps stay hidden: the dock's app chooser and the list of apps for a new folder offered every app, including the ones hidden in Settings. They leave hidden apps out now, as the App Library and search do. Searching the dock's chooser or Stack Apps also finds an app you renamed by its original name, and a Chinese name by its pinyin.
• An icon pack Folio can't read doesn't slow the App Library: a pack with no usable list of icons was read again for every icon. It is left alone for half a minute after it fails, then tried again, so a pack that was updating still comes back.
• Apply and Undo for a theme go in order: choosing a theme and then Undo within a moment of each other could end with the theme applied instead of undone.
• TalkBack reads the Focus switch once: in Control Center it read "Turn off Focus, On, Switch". It reads the Focus's name and whether it is on.
• Settings keeps your place on Back: going back to a list, like Tweaks from one of its tweaks, always showed it from the top. It opens where you left it now. Back names the page it returns to, and next to the Settings list the pages under General, Support Folio and Wallpaper & Appearance have a Back, as the pages under Tweaks do.
• Tapping a clock or a date opens its app: tapping Folio's Clock, Big Clock, Date or Up Next widget opened the widget's options, which holding it already does, and in the Today View it started editing. A tap opens Clock or your calendar now, and in the Today View holding a widget starts editing. While you're editing Home, a tap still opens a widget's options.
• Problem messages in your language: in Korean and Chinese, the alert for apps that couldn't be loaded told you to tap to retry, beside its own Try Again button, and a saved Home layout that couldn't be read was reported in English. Both are in your language now. Tapping that layout message on Home brings back the choices to restore it or start fresh; it used to reload your apps, which can't repair a layout.
• The island waits as long as you've asked: what the island shows for a moment, like Folio's notices and new messages, went away after a fixed few seconds. It follows Time to take action in Android's accessibility settings now.
• A quick action that won't start says so: choosing one of an app's quick actions, from its menu or its panel, that the app had removed or turned off closed the menu and did nothing. Folio says it's unavailable now, as it does for an app that won't open.
• TalkBack says what controls do: the middle music button was read as "Play or pause"; it's Play or Pause now, whichever a tap will do. The widget gallery's close button is called Close instead of Back, a widget waiting to be set up is read by its name instead of a name from the app's code, and the Today View's Remove, Move Up and Move Down buttons are read in your language.
• TalkBack follows your language: in Korean and Chinese, TalkBack read a Focus's switch, the reply field and Send button on a message, "Show all apps" in the App Library, an app's Open, Moving and Choose, and an install's progress in English. They are in your language now. The reply Send button, a message's action buttons and the Clear button in search have a 48 dp tap area, drawn at the size they were.
• Market clips only play on screen: a clip scrolled out of view stops playing, and a still screenshot is no longer decoded twice.
• Remove stays on a package you have: when its newer version is one Folio can't read, the row and the page still offer Remove, and neither offers an Update that can't work.
• A change right before you leave Home is kept: a change to Home made in the last third of a second before you left Folio, or folded the phone, could be lost. Folio now saves it as Home stops.
• Big theme files are refused: choosing a file that isn't a Folio theme, but is very large, no longer reads it all into memory. It says it isn't a Folio theme, as before.
• Less waiting on the main thread: looking up your icon packs for the Icons page and for a theme, and saving the trail Folio keeps for Diagnostics, now happen off the thread that draws Home. A pack that was updating when Folio read it is tried again instead of being treated as empty.
• An update that can't be saved says so: if Folio can't put a checked update in place after downloading it, it says the update couldn't be downloaded instead of showing it as ready.