- Refactor `AppManifest`: add new fields and rename existing ones
- Parse and validate the manifest from an app that is being installed.
- Remove deprecated `scoped()` from `Lock`
- Create `Tactility/Paths.h`
- App loading at boot now properly parses the manifest files of external apps
- Properly lock both source and destination locations during app install
- Remove LVGL path variants from `AppPaths` and `ServicePaths`
- Removed `xPath` base classes for apps and services. There's now `AppPaths` and `ServicePaths`.
- Renamed app and service paths: "data" and "system" paths are now "user data" and "assets"
- Improved UI/UX of various WiFi apps to make it compatible with Cardputer.
- Improved UI/UX of Serial Console to make it compatible with Cardputer.
- Boot app now shows a smaller logo on Cardputer
- CrashDiagnostics app: Use different text if no touch screen is present
- Update ILI9341 driver to v2.0.1
- Lots of code cleanup for apps
- Refactor app "type" into "category" and added flags to the manifest (for show/hide statusbar and for hidden apps)
- Rename some ElfApp-related functionality and improved the way the static data was managed
- Rename "filebrowser" to "files"
- Added cstring functions to tt_init.cpp
- Minor fix in Boot app
- Updated external apps for SDK changes
### Cardputer:
- Fix keyboard issue with up/down button conflict when selecting switch
- Fix backlight flickering
### UI improvements
- Removed a 3 pixel border that went around the entire desktop environment
- Improved system layout (GuiService)
- Statusbar: improved layout (mainly margin/padding)
- Toolbar: fixed margin/padding of all buttons, fixed alignment of all content
- Improved layout/UI of many apps
### Other
- Update LVGL to 9.3.0 official release (was dev version)
## New features
- Implemented support for app packaging in firmware and `tactility.py`: load `.app` files instead of `.elf` files. Install apps remotely or via `FileBrowser`.
- Ensure headless mode works: all services that require LVGL can deal with the absence of a display
- Service `onStart()` is now allowed to fail (return `bool` result)
- Added and improved various file-related helper functions
## Improvements
- Completely revamped the SystemInfo app UI
- Improved Calculator UI of internal and external variant
- Fix Chat UI and removed the emoji buttons for now
- Fix for toolbar bottom padding issue in all apps
## Fixes
- Fix for allowing recursive locking for certain SPI SD cards
& more
- Fix bug in Development app: when launching/stopping external app due to LVGL being stopped and a timer still being active (sometimes, as it's a race condition)
- Added TODO to fix the same bug in other apps
- Update external app SDKs to `0.5.0-SNAPSHOT`
- Add app path get() functions to `TactilityC`
- Improved `Dispatcher` and `DispatcherThread`
- Improved `PubSub` (type safety)
- Created test for `DispatcherThread` and `PubSub`
- Save properties files on app exit (various apps) by posting it to the main dispatcher (fixes UI hanging briefly on app exit)
- Fixed bug with `SystemSettings` being read from the wrong file path.
- `loadPropertiesFile()` now uses `file::readLines()` instead of doing that manually
- Increased timer task stack size (required due to issues when reading a properties file for the very first time)
- General cleanup
- Created `EstimatedPower` driver that uses an ADC pin to measure voltage and estimate the battery charge that is left.
- Cleanup of T-Deck board (updated to new style)
- Move various settings to `/data/settings` and `/sdcard/settings`
- Fix for `Gui` and `Statusbar` errors on startup (LVGL start)
- Implement Development service settings as properties file
- Rename `service::findManifestId()` to `service::findManifestById()`
- Renamed various classes like `BootProperties` to `BootSettings`
- Renamed `settings.properties` to `system.properties`. Code was moved to `settings` namespace/folder
- `DevelopmentSettings` is now in `settings` namespace/folder (moved from service)
- Made an external app from internal Calculator app
- Update tactility.py to v1.2.0 (fix bug with selfupdate)
- Added warning to Development service UI
- Add context to `SECURITY.md`
- Split `ObjectFileReader` and `ObjectFileWriter` into separate cpp files
- Fix related to GPS config read errors
Various improvements and new internal APIs including a new Development service+app which allows `tactility.py` to upload and run applications remotely.
