Velis auto brightness changelog

4.65.234 (09.09.2017)

• Fix for crashes in Androids < 5 (sorry)
• Fix for direct sunlight issues
• Fix for widget graph getting cleared
• Fix for Android 8 notification

4.65.233 (27.08.2017) 

• Fix for very high sensor values (direct sunlight) 
• Fix for excluded apps sensor value override (high value) 
• Fix for profile button menu colours

4.65.231 (21.08.2017)

• Fix for Samsung glitch in excluded apps detection
• Fix for settings mode
• Fix for notifications freezing under full sunlight
• Updated russian translation

4.65.226 (17.07.2017)

• Updated italian language
• Top activity check uses much less battery now (Android 5 and above)
• Major remodel of internal workings. Also less battery usage
• Setting: brightness update interval: Reduce number of updates which would reduce battery usage
• Setting: Turn VAB on when screen turns on
• Setting: enable direct sun screen brightness boost
• (hopefully) more resilient service (should be stopped by system less often)
• When change is applied from notification, it's not lost on reboot any more

4.57.215 (09.06.2016)

• Minor fixes

4.57.214 (21.04.2016)

• Default camera API back to V1 (V2 gave too much trouble)
• Navigation drawer always open on wide enough displays

4.56.212 (21.02.2016)

• Split settings to Basic, Advanced
• Updated Russian language

4.56.210 (8.2.2016)

• Fix crashes (wizard, theming)
• Add support for Android Camera API v2 (might coexist with other camera apps better)
• Updated Romanian language

4.55.207 (8.1.2016)

• Fix for excluded apps in 5.0
• Widget would report tasker content not purchased when it in fact was
• Other minor fixes

4.55.205 (14.09.2015)

• Some minor tweaks and fixes

4.55.204 (09.09.2015)

• FIX: Excluded apps work on Android 5.1 and newer (requires special permission)

4.50.202 (04.9.2015)

• VAB now works in lock screen on lollipop
• Better superdim performance
• Theming

4.21.194 (19.5.2015)

• FIX: Excluded apps bug

4.21.193 (16.5.2015)

• FIX: Users on lollipop with camera as sensor will now have brightness for lock screen set to Screen-on sensor value override instead of fixed 80%
• Added setting for required number of touches (was fixed to 3) to refresh screen brightness when steady screen is on
• Add setting for brightness when VAB turns off for excluded apps
• FIX: Theming for buttons
• FIX: RTL did not work on manually selected RTL language
• FIX: new app install no longer shows the apply / cancel buttons

4.20.192 (22.4.2015)

• FIX: Best I can get for lollipop lock screen (sorta works)
  My ultimate (and probably final) attempt at fixing lollipop lock screen. I have researched *everything* I could think of, nothing worked.
  There's no way that I know of that can properly handle this, so I made an extremely ugly hack: I used system AB for those that have it and set screen to 80% brightness for everyone else (those on cameras as sensors). I'm so angry at Google right now and their API breaking changes. :mad:  Total waste of my time, instead of adding semi-cool features, I have to slave around with this.

4.19.191 (21.4.2015)

• FIX: Wrong overlay type after lock screen (various things didn't work)

4.18.189 (20.4.2015)

• Yet another try at fixing lollipop lock screen
• This should also fix issues for delayed camera first read after leaving lock screen
• FIX: Additional brightness doesn't work
• FIX: Notification removed from lock screen
• FIX: Transparent icon removed from lollipop status bar

4.17.188 (15.2.2015)

• Fix colours

4.16.187 (5.2.2015)

• Fix unresponsiveness in lollipop

4.15.183 (26.1.2015)

• Fix flickering lock screen on some devices
• Fix notification text color

4.13.182 (23.1.2015)

• Further fixes for lock screen

4.12.181 (20.1.2015)

• Fix excluded apps in lollipop
• Fix screen-on responsiveness when Lock screen is NOT among excluded apps
• Fix screen-on override (sometimes didn't work)
• Fix non-responsive auto-brightness in some situations
• Fix crashes at app start

4.10.180 (18.1.2015)

• Portugese by renatohm
• Fix lollipop issues
• Move to iab v3
• Move to Android Studio
• All images in app are now vector

4.01.177 (4.6.2014)

• New translation: greek by pugsang
• FIX: steadyscreen functionality now much more stable

4.00.175 (7.4.2014)

• FIX: Notification didn't properly update confirm / cancel button when they were pressed
• FIX: There were some crashes reported through play store. This fixes them

4.00.168 (6.3.2014)

• When screen is touched, brightness is not updated for specified time (a new setting - also in wizard)
• The above setting isn't active when VAB is frontmost app
• Notification is updated at least every 5 seconds (is now more precise)
• Unconditional additional brightness
• Additional brightness accepts negative numbers (will decrease brightness)
• FIX: Wizard back button now actually works + wizard page count fix
• FIX: After wizard, settings screen is refreshed to show selected values properly

3.60.166 (24.2.2014)

• Collapsible settings groups for easier navigation
• Excluded apps memory and performance improvements
• FIX: when sensor returned 0, some app functions didn't work correctly
• FIX: Sometimes changing profiles didn't work correctly

3.60.164 (15.2.2014)

• Added option to try and reduce erratic sensor readings in some devices (most notably SGS 3 and Note 2)
• Turning off interactive notification for Android 4.3 and up is now a regular settings option
• FIX: manual graph edit didn't work for many locales

3.55.162 (11.2.2014)

• Menu key now opens menu
• App titlebar now displays that there's a menu to be opened (and opens it)
• Floating point lux values: much greater precision for low sensor readings
• Some battery usage optimizations
• Camera now respects grab interval setting
• New language: dutch, thanks to Maardiweb

3.55.158 (7.2.2014)

• Completely redesigned reading interpolator. Less battery usage, fixes a ton of smoothing-related bugs
• FIX: If service is turned off, cameras will now stop reading
• FIX: Stopping VAB now completely removes the overlay. Should reduce issues on some devices when VAB was on and still held the brightness

3.55.153 (11.11.2013)

• Minor visual glitch fixes
• Interactive notification - only show the buttons once a custom brightness is set
• No notification option for Android 4.3+
• Vietnamese by Vu Hien

 3.50.149 (1.11.2013)

• User interface via fragments

3.15.142 (16.10.2013)

• A fix for faulty EXIF records in some phone models
• Chinese language by Jinran Lin

3.15.141 (8.10.2013)

• Interactive notification
• Launcher widget can now also render transparent

3.10.135 (23.6.2013)

• Kernel sensor reader now safer + 0 reading is a valid reading
• Main screen VAB on/off now properly reflects service state
• Excluded apps now displays previously selected apps at the top of the list
• Launcher widget text forced to white

3.08.133 (22.6.2013)

• FIX: colors in excluded apps list would be strange on some phones
• Overlay no longer destroyed on screen off to eliminate delay for screen-on
• SGS 2 now has a kernel sensor reading mode which enables the entire sensor range instead of just 1, 10, 100, 1000

3.05.122 (9.4.2013)

• When superdimming threshold is set to 100%, it becomes the only method of adjusting screen brightness. Makes brightness adjustments much smoother on some phones (SGS3, GNex 4, etc). Since this method is completely linear, using a brighter preset is recommended or the screen might become too dark.
• Completely remove brightness window when disabling. Should fix problems with system brightness when VAB is disabled on some phones.
• Fix graph presets so that graph adjustments at right edge behave normally
• Fixed strange graph behaviour at graph edges
• Added graph adjustment sensitivity setting for more precision with graph adjustments
• Draw superdim threshold in graph (non-user-interactive for now)

3.00.118 (27.3.2013)

• Fix device exclusions due to camera permission
• Settings wizard no longer clears saved profiles
• Settings wizard no longer starts multiple times on new installs
• Fix sensitivity presets for settings wizard
• S-curve graph no longer renders beyond graph boundaries
• Updated translations: slovak

3.00.114 (24.3.2013)

• Reduced smoothing intervals to reduce flickering on high-end phones
• Graph period must not be set to 0 (if it's 0, it crashes)
• Preliminary camera support. See XDA thread for more info

2.82.101 (15.2.2013)

• Fix for app service disabling itself when a popup is active

2.81.101 (11.2.2013)

• Custom app language selection
• Excluded apps (will disable VAB when an excluded app is on top)
• Super dimming: in addition to backlight also add a screen filter for deeper blacks
• Separate setting for smoothing time when dimming
• Android 2.1 & 2.2 compatibility fix (store will still never work below 2.3)

2.81.95 (9.2.2013)

• Revert to 2.31.84 (13.1.2013) - before screen filter - to resolve some issues
• All updates since 2.31.84 temporarily disabled
• Will be added again as they are eliminated as possible causes for the issues detected

2.81.94 (9.2.2013)

• Android 2.1 & 2.2 compatibility fix (store will still never work below 2.3)
• Excluded apps list FC fix

2.81.92 (9.2.2013)

• Fix excluded apps dialog (loads apps smoother)
• Add superdim activation brightness check
• Updated translations: persian, slovene

2.80.90 (2.2.2013)

• Custom app language selection
• Excluded apps (will disable VAB when an excluded app is on top)
• Super dimming: in addition to backlight also add a screen filter for deeper blacks
• Separate setting for smoothing time when dimming
• Launcher widget 4 slots wide by default

2.31.82 (12.1.2013)

• Much faster brightness graph rendering (less CPU usage on main screen)
• Fixed smoothing "hiccups". Graph is now buttery smooth
• Only use samples after screen-on
• Add an s-curve graph to the presets
• Updated translations: slovak, slovene

2.30.80 (6.1.2013)

• Launcher widget
• Fix graph adjustments at graph edges
• Clear settings to default (when wizard starts)

2.20.76 (2.12.2012)

• Fix for landscape
• Fix for sensor getting stuck
• Fix for brightness remaining even when service is disabled

2.20.74 (21.11.2012)

• App will load custom translation strings (helps translators do their work, see app homepage for instructions)
• Updated translations: norwegian, italian, slovene
• Removed requirement for light sensor (will show app to sony xperia users)

2.20.72 (14.11.2012)

• Settings wizard
• Service will stop after a minute if auto brightness is disabled
• Support for proprietary sensor solution on Sony Xperia
• Better LTR language support
• Updated translations: german, persian, slovak, spanish

2.01.64 (30.10.2012)

• Added links to manual and changelog to app menu
• Screen_on sensor override value (going from light to dark room)
• Smoothing override setting (when light change is too big, it will just skip to new value)
• Setting to update system brightness setting
• Fix for proximity sensor action
• Fix (hopefully) for graph remaining stuck at some reading
• Better logging (long-press proximity reading values to set level 0 - 9)
• Manual graph editing as text
• Added display of changelog at program start
• Updated translations: slovene, german
• Added language: hungarian

2.00.61 (26.10.2012)

• Fix for in-app billing
• Updated translations: german

2.00.59 (26.10.2012) - XDA thread only

• Tasker / locale support
• In-app billing
• Updated translations: slovene, german, spanish

 1.20.55 (22.10.2012)

• A first feeble attempt to prevent service terminations at night
• Better proximity sensor handling
• Enabled proguard to make the apk smaller and the code a bit faster
• Intermediate publish to prepare for tasker and in-app store
• Added language: russian, japanese, polish
• Updated translations: slovak, slovene

1.20.49 (15.10.2012)

• Updated translations: french, norwegian, german
• Remove strings that won't be used again
• Fix "track light in graph" buttons appearing without modifying graph
• Minor fix for about dialog
• Added language: persian

1.20.46 (13.10.2012)

• Updated translations for spanish and norwegian
• Fixed some untranslated strings (new strings for translators)
• Added about dialog to check current version
• Applying graph point now eliminates close neighbours and duplicates
• All new custom settings screen - should be more readable
• Supported language: french

1.10.40 (9.10.2012)

• Further optimizations to reduce battery consumption
• No longer updating android brightness (was just a cosmetic which turned out to use lots of CPU)
• Reduced last sensor value save interval to one minute to save even more battery
• Supported languages: slovak, spanish, norwegian (classic and bokmål)

 

1.10.37 (8.10.2012)

• Reduced graph size in landscape mode so that it fits on screen
• Supported languages: german, lithuanian

1.10.35 (7.10.2012)

• StartSensors checks for screen off - eliminates sensor time when screen is off
• Save current sensor value in case of service shutdown - load it when service restarts
• Change System handler text to "Disable system handler". Previous meaning was just the opposite
• Choosing a preset or profile now refreshes graph again
• Supported language: italiano

 

1.10.34 (5.10.2012)

• Sometimes in low light conditions brightness would drop to minimum without any apparent reason
• Fix a situation when (un)plugging power won't immediately adjust brightness. 
• Fix for service activation switch which didn't properly turn off system auto brightness.
• Fixed class that required Android 2.3 - back to 2.1 support 
• Translation support
• Supported language: slovenian

1.10.32 (4.10.2012)

• No more of no sensor reading
• Change app description (again) to please competitor

1.10.31 (3.10.2012)

• Battery usage fix. This should significantly reduce battery usage

1.10.26 (2.10.2012)

• Fixed sensitivity threshold
• Removed unnecessary calculations
• Optimized moving average routine
• Lower power consumption
• Change app description to please competitor

1.10.24 (1.10.2012)

• Fix FC at app first start
• Fix averaging function

1.10.21 (1.10.2012)

• Profiles (save the brightness graph under your own selected name)
• Jitter control to prevent excessive brightness updates
• Brightness smoothing to make the transitions smoother
• Minor bug / functionality fixes

1.0.20 (30.9.2012)

• initial Google play release

1.0.0 (12.8.2012)

• development start