- Implemented themes with LSS: material, material mono
- Implemented grid-based navigation
- Added new Launcher
- Updated Appearance app to add theme configuration
- Updated various apps to improve UX/UI
- Added LVGL widgets: cards, badges, chips, icon buttons
- Added support for round/rounded displays
- Added the concept of insets to LVGL and implemented it in toolbar + statusbar
- Terminal app now hides toolbar by default, but tapping the terminal toggles visibility
- File browsing now opens the configured user-data location by default
- Added missing licenses to subprojects
- Updated README.md screenshots and intro text
- External apps can opt into automatic cleanup when they exit, including tracked tasks, threads, files, directories, and memory.
- App-relative file paths resolve against the app’s working directory, with `.` and `..` normalized.
- The shell identifies ELF binaries that cannot be executed instead of treating them as scripts.
- Shared icon fonts now offer distinct default and large sizes, with updated icons across the interface.
- ESP32 apps can load additional ELF formats when address mirroring is enabled.
- Terminal colors render clearly on monochrome displays, and toolbar buttons have cleaner styling.
- GPS settings safely refresh their device list when their window is hidden or its widgets are destroyed.
app-module:
- Implement `AppStartContext` to reduce amount of `app_start_` and `app_exec` functions: replace them with `app_start_with_context()`
- Add support for environment variables when starting apps
- Implement support for environment variables for apps
graphics-module:
- Add this new module
- Move font-module code into this module
- Implement pixel_buffer
apps:
- Terminal app: reduce memory usage by only buffering a single row of characters, and try to buffer in IRAM when possible. Implement new pixel_buffer.
- App List: Mark apps as favourite to pin them on top. Use touch or press "x" key.
- App List: Add toolbar button that shows alert dialog with info about using favourites
- Apps can be launched directly from file paths (including Files app support)
- Added executable detection to identify unsupported or invalid binaries before launch.
- App startup is now streamlined through separate registered-app and direct-execution interfaces.
- Existing app launch points were migrated to the updated startup APIs.
- Apps can specify task stack depth and preferred memory placement in their manifests.
- App identifiers are validated against length and character requirements.
- Crash diagnostics now show the crash cause, reason, fault address, call stack, and program-counter details, with logs saved for review.
- App closing is more consistent across built-in screens. There's now a dedicated function, and the old _emit() function is made private.
- Crash diagnostics no longer display a QR code without a call stack.
- Improved memory allocation for unrestricted requests.
Event handling:
- Added unified event handling for application, system, and Wi‑Fi events.
- Updated all apps to reflect event handling changes
Wi-Fi:
- Refactored event handling from listener interface to task & event group.
- Added direct Wi‑Fi radio controls and improved event subscriptions.
- Wi‑Fi screens now refresh asynchronously and handle unavailable devices more gracefully.
- Enabled Wi‑Fi by default on in dts files, but radio on/off is still done by code. The main reason was reliable event subscription and consistent devicetree states.
- Improved Wi‑Fi shutdown cleanup and radio-state handling.
Other:
- Renamed the Kernel Display app to Display.
- Fix BluetoothSettings app not updating when toggling on Bluetooth on
- Fix BluetoothSettings app crash when closing while scanning
- Fix BluetoothSettings app crash when turning BT off while scanning
- WebServer doesn't save config anymore as a side-effect of reading the config
- Add missing license headers
- Use TactilityKernel's time and delay functions instead of TactilityFreeRtos ones
- Added generic GPS/GNSS support with device detection, configuration, and persistent settings.
- Improved device and module lifecycle management.
- Added flexible filesystem locking support for displays and storage.
- Improved display-idle and keyboard backlight handling.
- Updated architecture, driver, module, testing, and licensing documentation.
- Removed old HAL device and related code.
* **New Features**
* Added Material Design symbol fonts and LVGL font aliases for launcher, status bar, and shared UI icons.
* **Style**
* Migrated app icons across the UI to the new symbol font system.
* Updated launcher button sizing, font styling, recoloring and icon text color for consistency.
* Default text/icon font macros set for consistent sizing across the UI.
* **Documentation**
* Updated third‑party notices to include Material Design Icons links.
- Add kernel support for SPI driver
- Add kernel support for UART driver
- Implemented ESP32 UART kernel driver
- Update existing UART-related code in Tactility to use new kernel driver
- Remove UART from tt::hal::Configuration
- Remove tt_hal_uart functionality but keep functions for now
- Update devicetrees for UART changes
- Kernel mutex and recursive mutex: improved locking API design
- Other kernel improvements
- Added device_exists_of_type() and device_find_by_name()
* **New Features**
* Time and delay utilities added (ticks, ms, µs); SD card now uses an expansion-header CS pin; HTTP downloads warn when run on the GUI task and yield to avoid blocking.
* **Bug Fixes / Reliability**
* Many hard-crash paths converted to guarded checks to reduce abrupt termination and improve stability.
* **Tests**
* Unit tests added to validate time and delay accuracy.
* **Chores**
* License header and build/macro updates.
- `TT_LOG_*` macros are replaced by `Logger` via `#include<Tactility/Logger.h>`
- Changed default timezone to Europe/Amsterdam
- Fix for logic bug in unPhone hardware
- Fix for init/deinit in DRV2605 driver
- Other fixes
- Removed optimization that broke unPhone (disabled the moving of heap-related functions to flash)
- 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"
- 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
## 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
- 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)
- Replace C function pointers with C++ `std::function` in `Thread`, `Timer` and `DispatcherThread`
- Rename `SystemEvent`-related functions
- WiFi: fix auto-connect when WiFi disconnects from bad signal
- WiFi: fix auto-connect when WiFi fails to auto-connect
- WiFi: implement disconnect() when tapping connected WiFi ap in WiFi management app
- Refactored GPS service and HAL: GPS is no longer part of the HAL configuration. You can now add configure new GPS devices from the GPS settings app.
- T-Deck adds a boot hook to check if a GPS configuration exists and adds it when the config is empty.
- Implemented the concept of ObjectFile to read/write arrays of a raw data type (e.g. struct) to disk.
- Implemented more file utils (e.g. to create all directories of a path)
- Fixes and improvements to `GpsSettings` app, `GpsDevice` and `GpsService`
- Implemented location/GPS statusbar icon
- Added app icon
- Added support for other GPS models (based on Meshtastic code)
