Friday 28 September 2012

Velis auto brightness

Get the fun back to your auto brightness...


Free download link: Google play store
Changelog

Strings for translations - all translation help appreciated. The link points to a .zip archive containing all localizations. The base for translations is english text found in "values" directory. Please send the translated strings to my e-mail. Basic knowledge of xml needed: translate only values, not ids. Use plain text editors such as notepad.exe, gedit or kate. Make sure the file is UTF-8 encoded before sending it back.
You can test your translation before sending it to me by placing your translated strings.xml into the phones /sdcard/ directory (root of external storage). The app will detect if such a file is present and load it. Note that currently the menu and some arrays are not translated in this way, but most of the strings should work just fine.

For usage, please see the manual.


Please see XDA homepage about language support. Any translation help most welcome!

Velis auto brightness aims to provide the best possible brightness experience by using your devices sensors to determine the environment you're in. You have complete control over how much brightness will be applied for any given light condition, from selecting the sensors used to fully customizable brightness graph. This is a replacement for system provided auto-brightness functionality usually found in Settings / Display / Brightness

Features:
  • Initial configuration wizard for an easy start
  • User-selectable sensors: light, proximity (cameras planned soon)
  • Supports custom sensors on phones such as Sony Xperia
  • Brightness presets for every taste and screen
  • Profiles (save the brightness graph under your own name)
  • Fully customizable brightness graph to fit your needs or cover your sensor’s faults
  • Extensive sensitivity adjustments (light change threshold, smoothing times up / down, boost threshold)
  • Superdimming to make those shades really dark 
  • Excluded apps (will disable Velis Auto Brightness when they are on top)
  • Launcher widget with on/off button, profile select button and a brightness graph
  • Tasker / Locale support for many sensor readings and app settings
  • Convenient in-app store for premium content (some tasker and widget functionality) and developer support
  • Custom app language
  • Additional brightness when charging
  • Only uses sensors when screen is on conserving battery
Battery consumption notice: This app has been and still is rigorously tested against battery consumption. The only things consuming battery are graph updating (main app screen) and Tasker / Locale conditions for lux, brightness readings (they are frequent events).
However, some phones - most notably some custom ROMs on SGS 2 - will still report this app as the highest battery user even though the battery does not drain any faster than without this app. Please verify your actual battery usage before complaining about the app being listed as a big consumer.

Tasker plug-in / Locale plug-in: Provides conditions for screen on, calculated light reading, proximity sensor reading, calculated brightness. Exposes many settings to locale / tasker for detailed adjustment from these managers. Some of this functionality is premium content available through in-app purchase.

XDA thread (best for support) here.

Disclaimers

Activating multiple auto-brightness applications will not produce expected results so make sure only Velis auto brightness is active while you test it. This file is provided AS IS - without any warranty. The autor will not be liable for any (un)imaginable inconveniences, including, but not limited to your phone frying or your screen starting to shoot launcher widgets at you. :)

LOCALIZATION

This app is available in following languages

* English - base language
* Chinese by Jinran Lin
* Czech by Holly Hell
* Dutch by Maardiweb
* French by Pims83
* Italian by siggey
* German by Chef Koch
* Greek by pugsang
* Hungarian by XT69
* Japanese by Magus
* Lithuanian by cukierkas
* Norwegian by MrMastodon
* Persian by Alireza Afkar
* Polish by trur3
* Portuguese by renatohm\n
* Russian by Pavel Utochkin
* Romanian by rapttorx
* Slovak by kubics
* Spanish by UnderXP
* Vietnamese by Vu Hien
* Slovene

Thanks to all the translators for their hard work.

REQUIRED PERMISSIONS

WRITE_SETTINGS: Required to turn off system auto-brightness. This is for your convenience so that you don't have to go to system settings manually turning off system auto brightness
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: Required for starting the service at bootup so that auto brightness actually works without manual program start.
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW: Required for auto brightness to actually operate
GET_TASKS: Needed to detect current top activity for app exclusion list and proper screen filter operation
CAMERA: Determine environment brightness through cameras.
BILLING: Required for in-app store

SCREENSHOTS

Main screen



Settings

 


Notification
 

Launcher widget