* **New Features**
* Added App Hub browsing with All, Installed, and Updates filters, plus options to install, remove, or update apps.
* Added an installation activity indicator in the status bar.
* Added a mesh command-line app for checking status and managing mesh settings and channels.
* Radio region settings now persist across restarts and are applied to radio devices.
* Added audio codec support for the LilyGo T-LoRa Pager.
* Settings screens now use icons for selection actions.
* **Improvements**
* App Hub displays cached catalog results while a refresh is in progress.
* System menu close controls receive focus automatically when no pointer is available.
- Introduce "side" mode for system bar, versus classic statusbar on top with launcher bar below
- Automatic system bar mode detection with override by Kconfig/device.properties and secondary override by user via Appereance settings app
- Open a quick-settings menu from the status bar for available Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and power controls.
- Apps can display overlays with backdrop or Escape-key dismissal.
- Added focus-container support and improved keyboard navigation, including Fn+Enter on Cardputer devices.
- Power-off controls are available on supported device cards.
- Updated status-bar layouts, simulator display dimensions, and toolbar navigation styling.
- I²C scanning now supports selecting individual buses to rescan.
- SD-card mount status is no longer shown in the status bar.
- Refactored many apps' UI/UX
- Improve material themes
- Fix for Tab5 flickering on v1
- Extend dts parser for i2c address/reg support in code
- Fix for I2C Scanner glitch where it would show devices that aren't connected
- Add name labels to I2C Scanner's scanned devices
- 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
**Fonts**
Dynamically load text and icon fonts when the device boots.
Font bitdepth depends on whether the device is an ESP32 one and whether it has external RAM available.
When no external RAM is available on ESP32, only small and medium font variants are generated; large font variants refer to the medium size ones.
Implemented Appearance settings app for changing font and font size.
**Other changes**
- Added keyboard shortcuts to delete or rename files in directory views.
- Improved app-grid tile sizing to provide more room for labels.
- Reduced the default LED strip brightness.
Graphics & rendering
- Implement `binfont-module` to generate bitmap fonts on the device itself
- Remove lodepng support from LVGL library and create `Modules/lodepng-module` to make the feature re-usable in non-LVGL apps too. Add binding functions for LVGL support.
- Implement large icons for boot screen (Tactility and USB logos)
- Remove unused asset files in `Data/`
Boot
- Split up `Tactility.cpp` and its `run()` function into various `Init*.cpp` files.
- Re-implement `Boot.cpp` app as non-LVGL app
- Boot app now has a `BootSequence.cpp` for the init code.
- LVGL is now started when the Boot app finishes
- Move more init logic into Boot app
BLE
- Don't allocate scan result buffers unless BLE is on
- Allocate scan results in external memory if possible
UX & UI
- USB Settings app: remove border from the button container
Features:
- Implemented terminal app based on BreezyBox
- Implemented shell based on BreezyBox
- Added font-module with fixed-width fonts
Improvements:
- Improved application standard-output and error-output routing, including dynamically loaded applications.
- Updated shared icons and Material Symbols mappings.
- Other improvements & fixes
- 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
