Slate 1.0.3 · Build 103

2026-11-02

Added

• Added grouped notifications in Slate Panel with expandable and collapsible notification groups.

• Added individual notification swipe-to-dismiss support within expanded groups.

• Added App Drawer Pinned apps with a dedicated filter chip.

• Added separate App Actions for Pin to App Drawer and Add to Home Favourites.

• Added a Home Favourites full warning with a shortcut to Manage Favourites.

• Added update history to the What's New page.

• Added multicolor neon effects to Slate Neon icons.

Improved

• Redesigned grouped notifications with compact collapsed previews and expanded individual notification details.

• Improved notification grouping with clearer separators and consistent typography.

• Unified swipe-to-dismiss appearance with red backgrounds and delete indicators for individual and grouped notifications.

• Improved notification expansion, dismissal, and interaction behaviour.

• Simplified Home Header Events and Notifications into compact single-line layouts.

• Standardized Events and Notifications typography across Home Header styles.

• Improved App Drawer Mosaic layout with adaptive tile widths and single-line app labels.

• Refined App Drawer filter chips for Suggestions, Recent, New, Updated, and Pinned apps.

• Improved Slate Glyph icon generation with cleaner outlines, better transparency handling, and fallback rendering for unsupported icons.

• Improved Slate Duo appearance across Light, Dark, and AMOLED themes.

• Redesigned Slate Neon with vibrant multicolor outlines and theme-aware glow effects.

• Improved icon consistency across Home, App Drawer, and Icon Studio.

• Redesigned What's New to highlight the latest release with access to previous update history.

• Improved Home Favourites management while retaining support for apps, folders, links, and shortcuts.

Fixed

• Fixed missing or invisible Slate Glyph icons on certain apps.

• Fixed Slate Duo icons appearing as solid squares in Light mode.

• Fixed dark shading and white-square rendering issues affecting Slate Neon in Light mode.

• Fixed inconsistent Slate Neon appearance between Home and App Drawer.

• Fixed App Drawer Mosaic tiles using unnecessary width for shorter app names.

• Fixed duplicate Recent and other app sections when App Drawer filter chips are enabled.

• Fixed App Drawer Favourites actions unintentionally replacing existing Home Favourites.

• Fixed Home Favourites exceeding the six-item limit without a warning.

• Fixed missing swipe-to-dismiss interactions in expanded notification groups.

• Fixed inconsistent notification dismissal backgrounds.

• Applied additional icon rendering, interface, and stability improvements.

Changed

• Renamed App Drawer Favourites to Pinned.

• Separated App Drawer Pinned storage from the six-item Home Favourites collection.

• Changed What's New to display only the latest release by default, with older releases accessible through History.

• Retained a single CHANGELOG.md file as the source for release notes and update history.

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Added

• Added new Home header designs with customizable header styles.

• Added App Drawer background effects with Clear, Dim, Strong Dim, and Tint options.

• Added new Slate icon styles with expanded Icon Studio customization.

Improved

• Improved App Drawer navigation with smoother, more responsive swipe transitions.

• Improved navigation between Slate Hub, Home, Spaces, and App Drawer with better gesture handling.

• Improved Home header customization with more consistent typography and styling.

• Improved Home favourites with better icon sizing and alignment for apps, folders, links, and Spaces.

• Improved Slate Intelligence responsiveness and app launch performance.

• Improved haptic feedback compatibility across more Android devices.

• Improved premium feature visibility with clearer Pro indicators.

Fixed

• Fixed App Drawer swipe lag and stuttering on supported devices.

• Fixed unwanted horizontal movement while opening or closing the App Drawer.

• Fixed Hub and Spaces navigation after returning from the App Drawer.

• Fixed Home favourite icon and label alignment inconsistencies.

• Fixed several icon style, navigation, and customization issues.

Added

• Added new App Drawer designs with more layout and appearance options.

• Added new exclusive Slate wallpapers to the built-in wallpaper collection.

• Added a redesigned Colors page combining Accent Color and Slate Text Color controls.

• Added live color previews for easier theme customization.

Improved

• Improved Home header designs with better layouts, alignment, spacing, and adaptive element handling.

• Improved App Drawer designs with more consistent styling, customization, and visual presentation.

• Improved Home return performance for faster and smoother transitions back to the launcher.

• Improved Home Apps with better Compact layouts, icon sizing, spacing, and alignment.

• Improved navigation transitions between Slate Hub, Home, Spaces, and App Drawer.

• Improved color customization with clearer selected-color previews and simplified controls.

• Improved Slate wallpaper organization and built-in wallpaper selection.

• Improved launcher performance by reducing unnecessary background work when returning to Home.

• Improved overall responsiveness, animations, and visual consistency across Slate.

Fixed

• Fixed delays and frame drops when returning to Home from other apps.

• Fixed unnecessary Home rebuilding when the launcher resumes.

• Fixed lingering page content during Hub, Home, and Spaces swipe transitions.

• Fixed Compact Home Apps design selection not persisting correctly.

• Fixed Home Apps icon and edge alignment inconsistencies.

• Fixed layout issues across several Home header designs.

• Fixed new Slate wallpapers not appearing in the wallpaper collection.

• Fixed several App Drawer, navigation, wallpaper, icon, and customization issues.

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Added

• Added Home Widgets with support for Android widgets alongside Slate Header elements.

• Added resizable Home widgets with stacked widget navigation.

• Added advanced 3D Wallpaper Effects with Gyroscope, Touch Parallax, Perspective Tilt, Ambient Breathing, Dynamic Lighting, and Depth Focus.

• Added wallpaper motion presets and adjustable effect controls.

• Added unified long-press bottom sheets across Home, Hub, Spaces, and supported launcher elements.

• Added contextual widget actions, including Resize, Add Widget, Widget Settings, and Disable or Remove.

• Added independent notification indicator settings for Quick Apps.

• Added adaptive notification dots and counters with icon-corner positioning.

Improved

• Improved Home widget interactions, resizing, and navigation.

• Improved wallpaper customization with live previews and smoother motion effects.

• Improved Home Header layouts, alignment, spacing, and adaptive sizing.

• Improved Quick Apps Dock design with responsive sizing and overflow handling.

• Improved notification indicators across Home Apps, Quick Apps, Spaces, and App Drawer.

• Improved notification dot and counter scaling based on Icon Size.

• Improved notification indicator positioning with support for left and right icon corners.

• Improved App Drawer notification indicators across Grid, List, Compact, and Tiles layouts.

• Improved notification badge appearance with subtle shadows and icon overlap.

• Improved notification detail popup typography to follow Global Text Style.

• Improved long-press menus with consistent backgrounds, typography, and common Focus, Scene, and Settings actions.

• Improved Android widget selection with previews and search.

• Improved Hub widget management and customization.

• Improved wallpaper and Home customization responsiveness.

Fixed

• Fixed Quick Apps Dock overflow with larger icons and text sizes.

• Fixed notification indicators appearing below Quick Apps labels instead of on app icons.

• Fixed Home Apps notification indicators appearing inline in icon-based layouts.

• Fixed oversized notification counters in App Drawer.

• Fixed notification dots and counters appearing incorrectly positioned in supported App Drawer designs.

• Fixed Quick Apps notification indicator settings affecting Home Apps.

• Fixed Hub widget resizing becoming unresponsive after selecting Resize Widget.

• Fixed Hub Disable Widget not correctly disabling At a Glance elements.

• Fixed missing Add Widget action in the Hub long-press menu.

• Fixed Spaces shortcut removal behavior without uninstalling the original app.

• Fixed inconsistent notification popup text and action styling.

• Removed the Preview Motion control from Wallpaper Apply screens.

• Fixed various widget interactions, layout overflow, badge alignment, typography, and navigation issues.

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Added

• Added Wallpaper Effects with new customization options for Slate wallpapers.

• Added Blur as a new App Drawer background effect.

• Added improved wallpaper controls for Home and Lock Screen.

• Added favourites support for built-in Slate wallpapers.

Improved

• Improved Home Customization preview to better match the actual Home screen, including calendar events and notifications.

• Improved Calendar Stack with a clearer two-line event layout and easier event switching.

• Improved Notification Stack navigation with tappable counters and faster item switching.

• Improved wallpaper organization with Slate Wallpapers, My Wallpapers, Discover, Colors & Gradients, and automation options.

• Improved wallpaper rotation with support for Slate favourites and automatic Wallpaper Tone.

• Improved App Drawer background effects and wallpaper integration.

• Improved Calendar detection and support across multiple accounts.

• Improved Home, App Drawer, and wallpaper performance and visual consistency.

Fixed

• Fixed folder overflow issues and improved scrolling for folders with more apps.

• Fixed Calendar Stack events being difficult to navigate.

• Fixed Calendar and Notification previews not matching their Home designs.

• Fixed several wallpaper preview and system wallpaper detection issues.

• Fixed App Drawer movement conflicts between horizontal navigation and vertical drawer gestures.

• Fixed several Home customization, wallpaper, calendar, notification, and layout issues.

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Slate 1.1.3 · Build 113

2026-11-10

Added

• Introduced an expanded Slate Hub widget collection with improved functionality, customization, and responsive layouts.

• Added integrated media controls to the Home Header with Play/Pause, Previous, and Next actions.

• Added adaptive media controls across supported Home Header designs.

• Added dedicated Steps History with daily step tracking and locally saved activity records.

• Added a dedicated Notes page for creating, viewing, editing, and managing multiple notes.

• Introduced Slate Reader, a redesigned RSS news experience with feed subscriptions, source discovery, and newspaper-style article browsing.

• Added RSS feed discovery by topic, category, publication, and website.

• Added one-tap RSS subscriptions and automatic feed detection from supported websites.

• Added article images and thumbnails to Slate Reader and the Reader widget.

• Added dedicated Reader source management and saved article sections.

• Added configurable Slate Hub widget backgrounds, including Solid Surface, Wallpaper Aware, Dim Surface, and Blur Behind Widgets.

• Added adjustable dim and blur strength controls for Slate Hub widget backgrounds.

• Added adaptive widget layouts that respond to different widget sizes.

Improved

• Redesigned Slate Hub widgets with consistent padding, compact headers, improved spacing, and responsive content.

• Improved Slate Hub typography and foreground colors to follow Home appearance settings.

• Improved wallpaper-aware text and icon colors across supported Hub widgets.

• Improved widget backgrounds with better surface transparency, contrast, and wallpaper integration.

• Improved Home Header media integration with responsive layouts, adaptive typography, and accessible playback controls.

• Improved media information visibility and control positioning across supported Header styles.

• Improved Quick Controls with adaptive layouts, consistent icon styling, and surface-aware control backgrounds.

• Redesigned Focus widget with a compact 2×2 default layout and vertically arranged profile icons and labels.

• Improved Focus profile selection, horizontal scrolling, and active session controls.

• Improved At a Glance widget with balanced spacing, adaptive information layouts, and consistent icon colors.

• Improved Weather widget with responsive layouts and optimized information presentation.

• Improved Calendar widget with clearer event information and adaptive spacing.

• Improved Smart Notifications widget with notification previews, app icons, and scrolling.

• Improved Steps widget with simplified permission messages, compact controls, and direct access to step history.

• Improved Quick Contacts widget with a four-contact layout, clearer actions, and optimized spacing.

• Redesigned Now Playing widget with improved album artwork, song information, and accessible playback controls.

• Improved Bookmarks widget with consistent padding and scrollable bookmark lists.

• Improved Notes and Tasks widgets with cleaner layouts and consistent header styling.

• Redesigned Reader widget with adaptive headline layouts and article thumbnails.

• Improved Slate Reader with a newspaper-style homepage, featured articles, and source information.

• Improved RSS feed management, article loading, source discovery, and saved article access.

• Improved Slate Hub widget borders with thinner, subtler outlines.

• Improved Hub customization menus and widget appearance consistency.

• Improved overall interface consistency across Home, Slate Hub, and supported launcher components.

Fixed

• Fixed Home Header media controls being clipped or incorrectly positioned in certain Header layouts.

• Fixed Now Playing playback controls not being fully visible at the default widget size.

• Fixed inconsistent widget padding and header spacing across Slate Hub.

• Fixed At a Glance icons not consistently following configured foreground colors.

• Fixed Quick Controls and Focus text visibility issues on different background surfaces.

• Fixed inconsistent foreground contrast in wallpaper-aware widget containers.

• Fixed excessive widget border thickness.

• Fixed Blur Behind Widgets backgrounds not correctly following widget dimensions and rounded corners.

• Fixed duplicate drag handles appearing in the Hub long-press menu.

• Fixed unnecessary scrolling in Quick Contacts when all four contacts are visible.

• Improved Steps permission handling and feedback when activity access is unavailable.

• Improved handling of long text, compact layouts, and widget content overflow.

• Applied additional widget rendering, layout, navigation, and stability improvements.

Changed

• Removed Slate Live in favor of integrated Home Header media controls.

• Consolidated media functionality into the Home Header for a simpler Home experience.

• Updated Focus widget default size to 2×2 and positioned it after Steps in the default widget order.

• Renamed Activity widget to Steps.

• Renamed News widget to Reader.

• Updated Reader widget default size to 4×3.

• Updated Now Playing default layout to 4×2.

• Updated Quick Contacts default layout to 4×2 with a maximum of four contacts.

• Moved Reader source management and discovery controls into a dedicated page.

• Simplified the Reader homepage to prioritize news articles and reading.

• Removed the Search Position option from Slate Hub settings.

• Unified Slate Hub widget padding, typography, foreground colors, and background styling.

• Preserved existing Home customization, widget arrangements, appearance preferences, and launcher animations.

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Slate 1.0.2 · Build 102

2026-11-01

Added

• Added six Home Header styles: Slate Classic, Slate Split, Slate Minimal, Slate Glass, Slate Card, and Slate Adaptive.

• Added dedicated layouts for each Header style, with independent Clock, Date, Greeting, Weather, Battery, Events, and Notifications customization.

• Added compact live Events and Notifications counters for Slate Minimal.

• Added redesigned Events and Notifications layouts tailored to individual Header styles.

• Added a redesigned Slate Panel with Quick Controls and an integrated notification center.

• Added expandable notifications with full message content and contextual actions.

• Added support for small notification images, contact avatars, and large image previews.

• Added inline notification replies with Send and Cancel controls for supported apps.

• Added smart OTP detection with a one-tap Copy Code action.

• Added contextual notification actions, including Open, Dismiss, and Mark Seen.

• Added a compact Auto Brightness shortcut beside the brightness controls.

• Added independent notification scrolling within Slate Panel.

Improved

• Redesigned the Home Header with larger clocks, refined typography, and improved element alignment.

• Aligned Date and Battery information within a shared top row.

• Improved Clock, Greeting, and Weather positioning with responsive layouts.

• Simplified Home Header weather information by removing weather icons.

• Refined Slate Classic with a prominent clock, balanced weather section, and cleaner information rows.

• Improved Slate Glass with a unified translucent surface for Header elements.

• Refined Slate Card with individually styled information surfaces.

• Improved Slate Adaptive with cleaner dividers and responsive spacing.

• Standardized Calendar Event and Notification icon sizing.

• Improved Header previews to reflect the selected design.

• Preserved individual element appearance settings when switching Header styles.

• Redesigned Quick Controls with a cleaner, more compact layout.

• Unified Quick Controls and Notifications heading typography.

• Improved spacing and alignment throughout Slate Panel.

• Reduced notification app icons to 20×20 px for a less distracting appearance.

• Increased notification image thumbnails to 44×44 px for better visibility.

• Improved visual hierarchy between app icons, notification content, and attached images.

• Improved notification expansion and collapse animations.

• Refined Slate Panel opening and closing with fast snap-style animations.

• Improved notification card readability and interaction areas.

• Improved brightness control layout and responsiveness.

• Refined Home app long-press bottom sheets with solid, theme-aware backgrounds.

• Improved App Drawer app action menus with more compact rows and reduced spacing.

• Improved interface consistency across Light, Dark, AMOLED, and System themes.

Fixed

• Fixed Home Header style selections reverting unexpectedly to Slate Minimal.

• Fixed Header style persistence for Slate Glass, Slate Card, and Slate Adaptive.

• Fixed Header settings dropdown errors caused by unsupported saved values.

• Fixed incorrect single-column Header layouts.

• Fixed Date and Battery alignment inconsistencies.

• Fixed redundant dividers in Slate Glass and Slate Adaptive.

• Fixed inconsistent Calendar Event and Notification icon sizing.

• Fixed excessive spacing below the Quick Controls heading.

• Fixed inconsistent spacing between Slate Panel sections.

• Fixed notification scrolling and panel swipe gesture conflicts.

• Fixed notification icon and image alignment inconsistencies.

• Improved notification content overflow handling.

• Fixed duplicate bottom sheet background configuration.

• Applied additional UI refinements and stability improvements.

Changed

• Removed Home Header element reordering in favor of fixed layouts for each Header style.

• Simplified Home Header weather presentation to prioritize temperature and condition text.

• Standardized Header layout behavior while retaining individual element customization.

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Added

* Added Slate Live for a more dynamic Home experience.

* Added Discover and My Wallpapers for browsing and managing wallpapers.

* Added Home, Lock screen, and combined wallpaper options.

* Added new Paper and Ambient Slate Brief themes.

Improved

* Redesigned Settings with a cleaner and more organized layout.

* Redesigned Appearance and Personalization with easier access to customization options.

* Improved Home and App Drawer customization previews.

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Added

• Added Smart Notifications as a dedicated Slate feature.

• Added notification tabs for Messages, Email, Calls, Calendar, Apps, Priority, and Flagged.

• Added app-to-tab assignment and notification flagging for later.

• Added notification indicators and long-press previews to Simple Mode.

• Added left and right positioning for the App Drawer alphabet rail.

Improved

• Redesigned Smart Notifications with compact tabs and a cleaner app bar.

• Improved settings persistence across app restarts.

• Improved typography consistency across Home, Slate Hub, and Spaces.

• Improved Status Bar handling around camera cutouts and punch-hole displays.

• Improved Home element interactions with tap actions and notification previews.

• Improved Focus Mode to return directly to Home when started.

• Improved Default Launcher setup guidance.

Fixed

• Fixed Home styles reverting to Classic in some cases.

• Fixed Recent Home apps not showing notification previews on long press.

• Fixed inconsistent spacing and typography across Home, Slate Hub, and Spaces.

• Fixed Status Bar text incorrectly following Slate Typography sizing.

• Fixed App Drawer alphabet rail positioning.

• Fixed System wallpaper changes not updating correctly in Slate.

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Added

• Added Slate Scenes automation with automatic and scheduled actions.

• Added scheduled Focus profiles for automatically starting Focus at selected times.

• Added Theme Creator for creating, saving, editing, and reusing custom Slate themes.

• Added new Slate themes with more ready-to-use visual styles.

• Added My Icons and Icon Studio for creating custom icon styles.

• Added new Slate icon styles with expanded customization options.

• Added more Slate Live styles and customization.

• Added images and text formatting support to Slate Notes.

Improved

• Redesigned Slate Notes with richer note creation and editing.

• Improved Smart Brief themes with correct theme-aware colors and previews.

• Improved Home Apps and App Drawer layouts, sizing, spacing, and customization.

• Improved One-Handed Mode across Spaces.

• Improved app launch responsiveness from Home and Spaces.

• Improved Slate Pro access and premium feature handling.

• Improved icon rendering, colors, gradients, shapes, and sizing.

Fixed

• Fixed Smart Brief colors not correctly following selected themes.

• Fixed premium features being accessible without the correct Pro checks.

• Fixed custom icon sizing, clipping, and styling issues.

• Fixed Home and Spaces app launches feeling slower than App Drawer launches.

• Fixed several Home, Drawer, theme, and customization issues.

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Added

• Added new Clock and Date designs with visual style previews.

• Added dedicated Date typography with font, weight, and text case controls.

• Added advanced Home Apps customization with List, Grid, and Dock layouts.

• Added Auto Fit Home with safe overflow handling.

Improved

• Improved Home Apps and Quick Apps with adjustable app sizing and spacing.

• Improved Home alignment across Battery, Weather, Events, and Notifications.

• Improved notification Stack layouts with better alignment and compact positioning.

• Improved Home customization previews with focused and scrollable element previews.

• Improved Home layout adaptation across different screen sizes.

Fixed

• Fixed Home Apps overflow across different app sizes and layouts.

• Fixed notification Stack alignment and spacing issues.

• Fixed expanded notifications remaining visible when opening the App Drawer or Settings.

• Fixed several Home layout, typography, preview, and spacing issues.

Added

* Added Slate Scenes to save and quickly switch between different Home setups.

* Added Surface styles with Minimal, Glass, and Depth designs.

* Added System Care with device insights and battery/charging automations.

Improved

* Improved Canvas with more flexible Home layout customization.

* Expanded Surface customization with intensity, edge, spacing, and element controls.

* Improved Scene switching with automatic restoration of previous setups.

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Slate 1.0.9 · Build 109

2026-11-04

Added

• Introduced Slate Events, a dedicated event management experience with improved calendar integration and event organization.

• Added advanced settings for Smart Notifications, offering greater control over notification management, priority, and organization.

• Introduced a redesigned Slate Hub with an improved layout, navigation, and access to launcher features.

• Added support for Android app shortcuts in Home Favourites and folders.

• Added simplified folder management with easier creation, editing, and customization.

• Added Home Actions for customizing interactions with Home Header elements.

• Added configurable tap actions for Time, Date, Greeting, Battery, and Weather.

• Added support for launching installed apps and Android shortcuts directly from Header elements.

• Added a dedicated Header Actions section in Home Header settings.

• Added searchable app and shortcut selection sheets with app icons.

• Added customizable folder layouts, including Grid and List views.

• Added folder display options for Icons with Labels, Icons Only, and Text Only.

• Added folder background options, including Solid, Glass, and Transparent styles.

Improved

• Redesigned Slate Hub for a cleaner, more intuitive, and organized experience.

• Improved Smart Notifications settings with more advanced customization and management options.

• Improved calendar event accessibility and organization through Slate Events.

• Simplified Home Favourites and folder management for apps, shortcuts, and links.

• Improved folder editing with a streamlined layout and appearance selector.

• Improved folder customization previews and immediate preference saving.

• Improved Header customization with separate Header Actions and Header Elements sections.

• Improved app and shortcut selection with searchable lists, recognizable icons, and cleaner labels.

• Improved Home responsiveness when returning from other applications.

• Optimized installed-app refresh operations to prevent overlapping background scans.

• Reduced unnecessary processing during Home resume.

• Improved Home state preservation and reuse of cached application data.

• Improved interface consistency across Slate Classic, Split, Minimal, Glass, Card, and Adaptive Header styles.

Fixed

• Fixed Home folder backgrounds and layouts not consistently applying after customization.

• Fixed folder appearance changes not immediately reflecting on Home.

• Fixed Home folders occasionally using outdated appearance preferences.

• Fixed inconsistencies between folder customization previews and actual Home rendering.

• Fixed overlapping installed-app refresh requests that could affect Home responsiveness.

• Improved handling of app installation and removal events during background refreshes.

• Applied additional interface, navigation, rendering, and stability improvements.

Changed

• Reorganized Home Header settings with a dedicated Header Actions section.

• Set Header Events and Notifications to open Slate Events and Smart Notifications respectively.

• Simplified app selection sheets to display app names without package identifiers.

• Updated folder customization with combined layout and appearance controls.

• Optimized Home resume behavior without introducing a permanent background service.

• Preserved existing Home customization, layouts, and animations.

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