PixelKit v1.6.0

PixelKit v1.6.0 — Full Pixel 11 Pro and Android 17 Hardware Suite

Expanded the PixelKit SDK from 32 to 39 hardware hooks with 7 major native features sitting on Google Tensor G6, Android 17 (API 37), and physical Pixel 11 Pro silicon.

What's New in v1.6.0

• <PixelKitDevTools />: Floating, draggable in-app developer HUD for live monitoring of Choreographer display FPS, ADPF thermal headroom states, and Tensor G6 CPU cluster load.
• useCameraExtensions: Direct vendor CameraX HAL extensions providing hardware Night Sight, Ultra HDR 10-bit gainmaps, Portrait Bokeh, and Face Retouch.
• useAppFunctions: Android 17 IAppFunctionManager dynamic function registry bridge for system Gemini Assistant execution and tool calling.
• useSpatialAudio: android.media.Spatializer API integration and 6-DOF dynamic head tracking with Pixel Buds Pro / Pro 2 via BLE Audio/A2DP.
• useChannelSounding: Bluetooth Core Specification 6.0 Phase-Based Ranging (PBR) and RTT tone exchanges delivering centimeter-accurate proximity and distance anti-spoofing.
• usePlayIntegrity: Google Play Integrity API integration coupled with StrongBox Keystore 400 EC keypair attestation inside the isolated Titan M2 security enclave.
• useRadios: Expanded to detect Thread 802.15.4 mesh (chip0) and physical Satellite SOS provider availability (SATELLITE_SOS_PROVIDER_1).
• usePerfetto: Low-overhead system profiling with the Android 17 Perfetto tracing service (traced v54.0+) and kernel ftrace ring buffer markers via android.os.Trace.
• useHealthConnect: Unified Android Health Connect encrypted SQLite data queries paired with direct hardware step counter and PPG heart rate sensor interrupts.

Hardware Probing & Capabilities Refinement

• verifyCapabilities and useTPU now verify both android.hardware.npu and android.hardware.neural_processing_unit, ensuring true hardware provenance on Pixel 11 Pro.
• Added 12 comprehensive production guides and 11 interactive Archify vector diagrams across the documentation portal.
• All 39 hooks verified on physical Google Pixel 11 Pro (grizzly, Tensor G6, Android 17 API 37) with zero simulation.

Published npm Packages (with Sigstore Provenance)

• @pixelkit-labs/sdk@1.6.0
• @pixelkit-labs/native@1.6.0
• @pixelkit-labs/mlkit@1.6.0

PixelKit v1.1.0

First release of the reorganised app. Everything the SDK documents can now be reached from the
interface, every documented function states its inputs and outputs, and a check in the build fails
when either of those stops being true.

Added

• Release documentation: RELEASING.md (the gates, the signing story, the EAS profiles and the
  order to do them in), docs/PRIVACY.md (what leaves the device and what does not), and
  docs/store-listing.md (listing copy, the data-safety answers, and a justification for each
  permission the manifest asks for).
• expo-asset, a required peer dependency of expo-audio that was missing. expo-doctor warned
  that the app may crash outside Expo Go without it, which is precisely the failure a release build
  would have shipped. All 21 doctor checks pass now.

Changed

• eas.json uses appVersionSource: "local" and no longer auto-increments the production build.
  The repo rule is that every change bumps expo.android.versionCode by hand, so the checked-in
  value has to be the one that ships; with remote the two would have drifted apart silently.

Removed

• android.permission.BODY_SENSORS from the manifest. It covers body-worn sensors such as a heart
  rate monitor; nothing here reads one, and the IMU, magnetometer, barometer and light sensor need
  no permission at all. Play treats it as sensitive, so asking for it would have meant declaring a
  capability the app does not have.

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This is a source release. PixelKit is a template and a reference implementation, not a shipped app — there is no binary attached. Clone it, or use it as a template, and build it against your own Pixel: npm install then npx expo run:android with a development build. RELEASING.md covers the path if you ship an app of your own from it.

Requires a Google Pixel on Android 16 or later. Gemini Nano, HiLight and ultra-wideband need a Pixel 11 Pro; anything the device lacks reports itself unavailable rather than pretending.

Full changelog: https://github.com/Traves-Theberge/PixelKit/blob/v1.1.0/CHANGELOG.md