commit a46098eb049582d57db32b74eef28e152f9bc1d5 truex <truex@equwal.com> 2026-09-21 03:37:25 -0700 Add the 0.0.12-alpha notes, Ink Recents and the carried apps
CHANGELOG.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRIVACY.md | 7 ++----- README.md | 10 ++++++++-- 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 7c7358b..1ec5f4e 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,5 +1,36 @@ # Changelog +## 0.0.12-alpha - 2026-09-21 + +Version code 12. + +- **Apps of other makers.** The build for direct install carries two apps and + can install them: CLauncher v5.3.0 (the release APK of its maker, not + changed) and Ink Recents 0.1.1 (open source). Home and recents lists them. Android asks before + each install. The APKs are in the build, because Rebind has no internet + permission. The Google Play build carries nothing and has no install + permission: Google Play does not allow that here. It opens the page of the + maker. +- Whisper 3.7 (speech to text on the device, MIT, the F-Droid build) is the + third app that the build for direct install carries. Voice typing lists it. +- **The home screen of Rebind is gone**, with its settings screens. CLauncher + is the home screen now, as its maker released it. An old settings file that + has home screen settings still imports. Those settings are skipped. +- **Recent apps is a program of its own: Ink Recents** (open source, + github.com/equwal/ink-recents). Rebind no longer has that screen, and no + longer asks for usage access or `KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES`. The Recent apps + action opens Ink Recents. Old bindings keep working. Where Ink Recents is + not installed, the action opens the screen that offers it. +- Hardware hacks: the double tap of Power is one row. Its way in is the camera + intent or the wallet intent, as the device decides. There is no wallet + button. +- The setup of a Power combination no longer says the same thing twice. + +- **Hardware hacks** is a tile on the main screen with a screen of its own: + hold Power (assistant role), double tap Power (camera intent), the wallet + button, the full Power button (shell access), extra-dim light, and the + button settings of the device. Advanced no longer holds them. + ## 0.0.11-alpha - 2026-09-21 Version code 11. diff --git a/PRIVACY.md b/PRIVACY.md index f61a26c..ede5cec 100644 --- a/PRIVACY.md +++ b/PRIVACY.md @@ -34,12 +34,9 @@ field that has the cursor. To do that it reads the current text of that one field at that moment. It keeps and sends none of it, and never writes into password fields. -**Recent apps.** If you use the recent-apps list without shell access, it -reads the usage log Android keeps, with the usage access you grant, to put apps -in order of last use. This happens on the device each time the list opens; -nothing from it is stored or sent. +**Recent apps.** Rebind has no recent-apps list of its own. The Recent apps action opens Ink Recents, a separate app with a privacy policy of its own. -**Closing apps.** When you close an app in the recent-apps list, Rebind asks Android to end the background processes of that app, and remembers on your device the time you closed it, so that the app stays off the list until you open it again. +**Apps of other makers.** The build for direct install carries the release files of three other apps (CLauncher, Ink Recents, Whisper) and can hand them to the installer of Android, which asks you first. Rebind downloads nothing. Each of those apps has its own policy. The Google Play build carries none of them. **The on-screen button.** If you give the on-screen button an action, the accessibility service draws a small round button over other apps. It reads nothing from the screen. It remembers only where you put it. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7c4df40..c512bf5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,8 +22,14 @@ free and complete after the beta too. [Shizuku](https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku), every Power press works: tap, double tap, triple tap, hold. - An on-screen button that floats over every app, for devices with few buttons. -- Recent apps made for e-ink: cards with no glide, swipe up to close an app, - swipe down to close all the others. +- Recent apps made for e-ink: a button opens + [Ink Recents](https://github.com/equwal/ink-recents), our free and open + source recent-apps app. Cards with no glide, swipe up to close an app, swipe + down to close all the others. +- Carries three apps of other makers, not changed, and installs them when you + ask: CLauncher (minimal home screen, GPL-3.0), Ink Recents (GPL-3.0) and + Whisper (speech to text on the device, MIT). Android asks you before each + install. Rebind downloads nothing: it has no internet permission. - Navigation in any mix of button bar, gestures and the Power button (needs Shizuku or an adb grant). - Extra-dim frontlight below the lowest system level (needs Shizuku with root).