About Holey Light
Samsung and Google Pixel only! 100% Free - 100% GPLv3 Open Source - No ads - No tracking - No nags - Optional donation Holey Light is a LED emulation app. It animates the edges of the camera cut-out (AKA punc
Samsung and Google Pixel only!
100% Free - 100% GPLv3 Open Source - No ads - No tracking - No nags - Optional donation
Holey Light is a LED emulation app. It animates the edges of the camera cut-out (AKA punch-hole) as replacement for the sadly missing LED on many modern devices.
Additionally, it provides a notification display for when the screen is "off", replacing - or working in conjunction with - the
Always-On Display feature. As this display is not around the camera hole, it is aptly named the
Unholey Light .
Supports all Samsung devices with in-screen camera hole, and several Google Pixels.
Features
- Emulates notification LED
- Four different display modes:
Swirl, Blink, Pie, Unholey Light
- Configurable animation size, position, and speed
- Customizable color for each notification channel
- Selects initial notification color by analyzing dominant color of app icon
- Displays during screen "off", sub-1% battery use per hour in
Unholey Light mode
- Separate configuration modes for different power and screen states
- Ability to mark notifications as seen based on various triggers
- Respects Do-Not-Disturb and AOD schedules
- Can hide AOD completely, partially, and/or keep the clock visible
Source
Source code is available on GitHub .
Setup
Initial setup can be a bit tricky for a first-time user, but a setup wizard is included that guides you through the process.
Permissions
This app absolutely requires several permissions to be able to function. If you are concerned about that, you can always check out the source code (or not use the app).
- Accessibility: the app needs an accessibility service to render the emulated LED on-screen, and track the correct position to display in screen "off" mode.
- Notifications: a notification service is needed to be able to know about the notifications before we can show them
- Companion device: in a weird quirk of Android, this permission is required to be able to read the wanted LED color of notifications
- Battery optimization exemption: without this, Android would randomly disappear our emulated LED
- Foreground service: both an accessibility and notification service are used as described above
- Wake lock: you decide when and how the app draws on the screen, sometimes this requires making sure the CPU isn't sleeping
- All package access: we render other app's icons and access some of their base information to be able to differentiate different notifications from each-other
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Holey Light since it was posted on our website on 2021-02-28 00:15:27.
The latest version is 1.00 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 19:06:16. See below the changes in each version.
Holey Light version 1.00
Updated At: 2021-03-02
Changes: Support for Android 11, many new Samsung devices, and some Google Pixels! Full release notes and changelogs here:
https://github.com/Chainfire/HoleyLight/blob/master/docs/notes_100.md
Holey Light version
Updated At: 2021-03-01
Changes: Preview release for non-beta v1.00. Proper release notes and information coming with that release. Most important for you right now is Android 11 support. Please test and let me know of any issues through XDA or the telegram channel - https://t.me/joinchat/I8HshhIHzwrJalUJ
Disclaimer
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