* IMU Updates
Updated BMI270 and MPU6886 with the mount-matrix.
Updated devices i can test with the mount-matrix. papers3, stackchan (cores3), sticks3, tab5, waveshare-s3-lcd-13, waveshare-s3-lcd-128
Devices not changed and not tested because i don't own them are:
MPU6886 - core2, stickc-plus2.
BMI270 - cardputer-adv
* Update device.properties
* No USB here! CH343P
* **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.
- Implement ST7305 driver at `Drivers/st7305-module`
- Rename `cl32` device project to `cl32-v02-v03` and removed v0.4 drivers
- Implement CL-32 v0.4 device as `cl32-v04`: display, keyboard, backlight/frontlight driver and power supply
- Remove `TT_LAUNCHER_APP_ID` (it was always the same setting)
- Remove `TT_LVGL_STATUSBAR_COLORS_INVERTED` (unused since recent changes)
- Wi-Fi only refreshes once, so users can navigate with the keyboard through the results, without constently resetting focus/selection. After initial scan, manual scans can be requested via the toolbar.
- Themes: material and material_mono theme don't show post-selection border animation anymore. It looks weird on monochrome devices and it doesn't add anything on other devices either.
- Made `merge.sh` executable
- backlight driver API change: min/max brightness functions are now optional, defaults to [0, 255]
- 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
- 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.
**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
- On monochrome displays, buttons have no default-state border while retaining borders in other states.
- App grid tiles retain the theme’s focus outlines and icon colors on monochrome displays.
- Tile labels have a consistent height and continue to use dot truncation.
- On non-monochrome displays, existing button, tile outline, icon color, and focus behavior remains unchanged.
- Implement double size icon assets in `lvgl-module`
- `AppList` and `Settings` app now show a paginated grid of icons
- T-Lora Pager gets a larger font to improve readability (14 -> 16 pixels)
- Improve default widget selection in several apps (`PowerOff`, `AlertDialog`, `AppList`, `Settings`, `Boot`)
- USB HID LVGL device is now only created when necessary. And the code is called in a safer way.
- Renamed “Region & Language” to “Locale.”
- The terminal toolbar is shown only when pointer input is available.
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
USB Audio Class (UAC) output
Audio codec re-binding
Keyboard / Bluetooth HID
HID Consumer Control (media keys)
Symbol exports
Other fixes
IMU-based screen auto-rotate
See PR for details: https://github.com/TactilityProject/Tactility/pull/655
- Added POSIX desktop support for SDK builds, application packaging, and integration testing.
- Added POSIX filesystem partitions and improved application path handling.
- Added simulator support for loading and running applications dynamically.
- Improved simulator task stack handling and display startup reliability.
- Improved simulator display scaling, resizing, high-DPI support, and pointer accuracy.
- Fixed LVGL timers and input polling on POSIX. (fixes simulator with Linux on some Intel graphics platforms)
- Standardized data paths across platforms.
- Logging now works via separate task: this allows apps to write to log without it affecting their stdout (for apps that output text as relevant date for other apps, like the File Selection app)
- Fixes for app stdio
- Removed TactilityC, moved its symbols to existing modules and several new ones (pthread-module, c-symbols-module, cpp-symbols-module, posix-symbols-module, freertos-module).
- Removed Firmware subproject and moved main() into Tactility subproject.
- Strengthened application archive, path, version, stack-size, and device validation.
- Moved symbol resolution for elf_loader to app-esp32-module.
- Improved `struct Module` declarations and made module and symbol definitions in modules more consistent.
- Removed old http download code from Tactility subproject.
- Rename app-module's source files for consistency.
- Add missing pthread symbols.
- Kernel module symbols are now resolvable on all platforms.
- Standardized keyboard input using Unicode-based key codes across supported devices and the simulator. Keyboards don't emit `LV_KEY_*` anymore.
- Refactored lilygo encoder driver into a reusable GPIO rotary encoder driver (see `Drivers/gpio-encoder-module/`). Added more features to the config file.
- Improved LVGL keyboard device management, including duplicate prevention and reliable reconnects.
- LVGL file mutex now registers with lvgl start/stop
- Improved LVGL startup/shutdown stability and memory allocation reliability.
- Increased simulator LVGL memory capacity and improved USB device-class handling.
- Auto-select widgets in Launcher and apps with toolbars on devices without touch.
- Improved USB HID input reliability, cleanup
- Updated PSRAM settings to improve boot stability on supported devices.
- Prevented duplicate Wi-Fi event subscriptions during screen rebuilds.
- Updated docs
- Fixes in WifiManage and WifiConnect
- Reduced main task stack size
- Moved USB HID stack size to PSRAM when available
- app_manager_find_manifest() now returns a copy instead of a pointer
- And Tab5 keyboard improvements
- Usb host keyboard improvements
- Symbols
- Requires the device.py change from CL-32 PR but that only affects visuals and not build breaking
- 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.
Migrated devices to kernel drivers:
- guition-jc3248w535c
- m5stack-core2
- m5stack-cores3
- m5stack-papers3
New drivers:
- axp192-module
- axp2101-module
Fixes:
- Fix SD card LDO for P4 devices
- Updated PowerOff app to work with kernel displays
- Fix for `lvgl_try_lock()` timing
- Fix for touch events with slow updating displays
Improvements:
- `GuiService` now keeps trying to lock to prevent silent failures caused by drivers.
- `GuiService` now uses lvgl-module calls for locking/unlocking
- display driver now has capability `DISPLAY_CAPABILITY_SLOW_REFRESH`
- RGB display driver added
- display_driver API:
- Added software-based display rotation for screens without hardware rotation support.
- Improved display capability detection across supported display drivers.
- lvgl_display driver:
- Improved framebuffer handling for smoother, more reliable display updates.
- Display gap and rotation behavior now adapts more accurately to hardware capabilities.
- Migration Crowpanel 5" basic & advance to kernel drivers
- Improve KernelDisplay app: brightness controls are hidden for displays that only support on/off operation
- device.py now allows for (non-ambiguous) partial device IDs
- TactilityKernel: Implement more tests
- Added modular device support and devicetree bindings for ILI9341, ILI9488, CST816S, XPT2046, and GPIO button input, updating several board configurations for display/touch/backlight/keyboard/battery.
- Added a setting to control deprecated HAL usage (device property + Kconfig).
- Added kernel base drivers for: display, pointer (touch, mouse, etc.), keyboard, adc, power supply and backlight
- Implement new kernel driver modules: `st7789-module` and `gt911-module`
- Implement ESP32 ADC "oneshot" kernel driver
- Implement ESP32 backlight kernel driver with ledc API
- Implemented `battery-sense` driver that allows for voltage measurement and creates a power supply child device
- Updated github actions
- Updated flash scripts
- Fix for esp32 legacy driver conflict with ADC
- Created separate `lilygo-tdeck` and `lilygo-tdeck-plus` devices
- Created `lilygo-module` with LilyGO kernel drivers
- Fix for intermittent errors in build related to code generation of `devicetree.c`
- `lvgl-module` can now map kernel drivers onto LVGL devices
- Created `KernelDisplayApp` as a mirror of `HalDisplayApp` (formerly `DisplayApp`)
- Removed `struct` and `enum` prefix in a lot of kernel driver cpp source files
- `lilygo-tdeck` and `lilygo-tdeck-plus` are now fully relying on kernel drivers and don't use any of the old HAL
* Tab5 camera + other stuff
Tab5 camera driver - SC2356
Custom SliderBox widget - slider with plus and minus buttons + value label and snapping
Rtc Time service + rtc api
Sdk release - only include drivers built for that specific target, eg: sc2356 driver is mipi / p4 only.
No more hardcoded manual sdk cmakelists
New function to find device by compatible string match. no more static cast bool wildness when trying to match a single device (like M5Stack PaperS3 for example)
* feedback + fixes
Fixed external app user data path.
fix(gui): block app teardown until onHide() completes, preventing ELF unload racing a still-running app
added camera device type and api
* drain the snake sssem
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Co-authored-by: Ken Van Hoeylandt <git@kenvanhoeylandt.net>
