AlphaDroid 4.5 — Changelog
31-05-2026
🟣 Dynamic Bar
— Cutout pill support: automatic placement detection for punch-hole and pill-shaped cutouts (left, right, center). Center variant uses a two-lane layout that collapses after 5 seconds and re-expands on new events.
— Animated collapse-to-ring around the physical cutout with five modes: charging arc, progress arc, pulsing ring, rotating arc for media, solid ring. Size, gap, offset, opacity and stroke adjustable.
— Expanded panel: blur behind card, refined gestures (tap outside or swipe up to close, swipe left/right on pill to cycle events), touches inside content no longer accidentally close the panel.
— Sports scores regression fixed; falls back to "Live event" when no team or score data is available.
— Keyguard battery icon redesigned to horizontal layout.
— Screen recording expanded card and lockscreen icon suppression fixed.
— Back and charging animations now honour their respective settings.
— Battery info on expanded card synced to match status bar/cutout chip behaviour.
🕐 Clocks
— Old custom clock system cleaned up and replaced with Axion's ClockProvider.
— Stylish clock family ported and layout bugs fixed. Stylish 7 layout and scaling finalised.
— Nothing lockscreen clocks provider added.
— Large clock sizing issues with dynamic clock fixed.
— Time update regressions fixed.
— Smartspace date suppression corrected to avoid duplication with large clock faces.
🌑 AOD & Screen Animations
— Screen-off animation for AOD added.
— Screen-on depth/parallax wallpaper animation added (with delay fix).
🖼 Lockscreen
— Lockscreen widgets support added via wallpaper/style picker.
— Deprecated lockscreen clock picker and legacy weather views removed.
🌤 Weather
— QuickLook is now the single weather source system-wide. Provider selection (OmniJaws or Google) handled once in AlphaSettings and shared across lockscreen, Quickspace and QS tile.
— QS Weather tile tap now opens a detailed forecast dialog.
— Lockscreen weather settings restructured under the QuickLook section in AlphaSettings.
🎨 Theming
— AlphaThemePicker rebranded from AxThemePicker with package rename.
— Monet fidelity and chroma synced between AlphaThemePicker and AlphaVisuals.
— Icon packs now theme QS connectivity tiles (Wi-Fi, mobile data, internet) alongside Bluetooth. On/off state communicated via tile background; signal bars continue to animate with live level. Wifi and signal overlays are independent.
— Status bar icon pack wifi/signal fallthrough bug fixed.
— Icon pack overlays now batch-applied in one pass (fixes Theme Store only applying the last category).
— 9 deprecated ThemePicker overlays removed. 384 misplaced framework drawables relocated to correct targets.
— System color hooks added for AlphaThemePicker.
— Deprecated settings and clock overlays (HideClock, HideSmartSpace, SmartSpaceOffset) removed.
🚀 Performance
— GPU clock no longer stays boosted after blur cache hits.
— SurfaceFlinger frame buffer cap corrected to triple-buffering (was 6×).
— UI thread optimisations in SystemUI.
— Notification stack overlap clipping and icon container tweaked; layer-type debounce removed from ViewState.
— UsageProgressBarPreference progress animation fixed (no more snap-to-zero on rebind).
— User activity broadcast minimum interval reduced to 100 ms.
— Default animation durations tuned for a snappier feel system-wide.
⚙️ Launcher & Recents
— Dismiss animation fixed for Kami, iOS and Oxygen custom recents styles with correct per-style motion curves.
— Quickspace weather routed through QuickLook; own weather stack removed.
— QuickSwitchService updated to AlphaThemePicker namespace.
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