HALO goes open source
Non PA users
Make sure to tell your developer to take a look at these two links:
1. [URL="https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid/android_frameworks_base/commit/518c329e8c67fa96b8a8fc22e1962ddb8497c333"]https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid/a...962ddb8497c333[/URL]
2. [URL="https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid/android_packages_apps_Settings/commit/7c739a86e7a02451a63615d71f1b6c846caacdc6"]https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid/a...1b6c846caacdc6[/URL]
Commits are streamlined and squashed, should be merged in a few minutes easily. HALO is still in beta since support for TabletUI and PIE is unfinished, among other minor things, but it's good enough for a release.
As for the feature itself, I can honestly say it's been the most exciting Android project I've been involved in. I can think of absolutely zero reasons why anyone would dislike it in its current state. I sincerely hope you enjoy it, whatever rom you run.
Facebook
Again, we would like to thank Facebooks clever engineers for this idea. We've had a blast bringing it to new levels and making it entirely and creatively our own. This ain't
just a random carbon copy, we've tried hard to make it adapt Android as best as we can, starting by extending the basic functionality to all apps of course and ending with that sort of integration which you would expect from any native feature.
Google
As for threats to Androids eco system, until now apps react nicely to our changes. Apps adapt, they simply assume a smaller screensize. We do have some remaining issues to clear but this should be safe when we are done. Should any doubt come up as to our integrity, we are prepared to do whatever we can to lessen negative impact. We have created white & blackliststs, we have flagged this feature beta and instructed our users of their responsibility to respect app developers should any issue arise.
We earn nothing from our feature and do this solely because we enjoy Android and the Nexus/AOSP platform. Our goal is not to spread and hack, we simply want to demonstrate that the AOSP platform and its compliant devices are already the creative breeding ground that anyone could wish for.
PA users
There seem to be no crashes or spontaneous reboots that we know of and we have observed and measured it long enough to know it poses no danger for your battery and performance. Therefore the code has been merged into our main branch. You'll get all the features and changes that happened outside of HALO's scope.
I will try to sum up what i see on Git:
- HALO has white & blacklists now. Blacklists can prevent apps from pinging through HALO, whitlists do the same but only allow pinging when you explicetly allow it for single apps, everything is silenced
- dismissal of notifications has been improved
- PA Wallpapers has been taken out of the rom and can be downloaded for free on Google Play: [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oid.wallpapers[/url]
- DCHSPA+ symbols
- Dirk Rettschlag's Quick unlock
- PIE option for emptyangle (the start gap)
- Birthness dialog updates
- Statusbar date/time layout changes
- Option to use volume keys to control media volume anytime
- Launcher does not need to be started when you go in and out of fullscreen (no more black flicker)
Oh, we took out GooManager since we will soon replace it with a custom solution that will make updating as easy as possible, with full context awareness of course (hybrid props, backups, kernel updates, PA-gapps, etc.).
Enjoy!
