OpenBridge v0.13.0

The big one before 1.0: Linux, Fast USB, texts, Windows USB browsing, a new phone design with three looks, and updates that install themselves.

Added

• OpenBridge for Linux. A .deb and a portable .tar.gz, with discovery, pairing, browsing, texts and screen mirroring (scrcpy bundled), in English and 简体中文.
• Fast USB. Turn on USB debugging once and the cable gets everything Wi‑Fi has: instant search, real folder sizes, resumable copies, texts. Plug in and the computer starts sharing on the phone by itself, pairs a new phone over the cable with the usual 6 digits, and moves a Wi‑Fi connection onto the cable (and back when you unplug). On the Mac, Windows and Linux.
• Windows: browse the phone over USB inside OpenBridge. File transfer mode now opens in OpenBridge's own window, with previews, sizes, search, rename, delete and drag and drop, through Windows' own driver. Open in File Explorer is still there.
• Texts. Share text to OpenBridge on the phone, tap the new Send clipboard quick settings tile or notification button, or type on the computer and send it. It lands on the other clipboard, with a history of the last 30 on both sides. Optionally, text you copy on the computer goes to the phone by itself (off by default; never what password managers mark as secret).
• A new phone design with an animated background, a big share button, smooth cards for computers, sending and texts, and a Settings sheet.
• Three looks: Dusk, plus Aurora (northern lights, a shimmering halo) and Tide (rolling waves, a glass pool that fills when a computer connects), in preview. Pick one in Settings on the phone and the computer.
• Updates that install themselves. Click Update: the new version is downloaded, checked against the release's SHA256SUMS.txt, and installed (Android asks you to confirm).
• Phone hotspot (Android 13+), for hotel, campus and guest Wi‑Fi that keeps devices apart. The computers notice such networks, explain them, and find a phone on its own hotspot by themselves.
• Instant search for photos, videos and music, from the phone's own media index.
• Big shares don't eat storage. Sharing a big video sends it from where it is instead of copying it first (with All files access).
• Copy diagnostics in Settings on every app: a short report for bug reports, with no secrets, texts or file contents.
• Accessibility: screen-reader labels everywhere, full keyboard use of the computer browsers, announcements when a phone connects or leaves, and still backgrounds with reduce motion.
• Import new photos works over every connection, including plain USB on Windows.
• The computer tells you when the phone's OpenBridge is older than its own.

Changed

• Mac: Return renames the selected item, like Finder; ⌘↓ or ⌘O opens it.
• Wording says "computer" rather than "PC" or "Mac" where it means any of them.
• The wire protocol gains OUTBOX ALL (texts) and INFO, and is frozen for 1.0: a 1.x computer works with any 1.x phone. Every build fuzzes the phone's protocol handler with 35,000 random and half-valid requests.

Fixed

• Mac over USB: an item listed twice by the phone showed twice; an item whose name the phone left out of its property list was hidden from search; very long names (common in Chinese) were hidden; an SD card reporting more free space than its size showed a nonsense used size.

Notes

• Update the phone app too: texts, Fast USB and the hotspot need 0.13 on both sides.
• Fast USB uses Android's USB debugging, which gives a trusted computer broad access to the phone (see SECURITY.md). It's optional; File transfer still works without it.

Checksums: see SHA256SUMS.txt. Full history: CHANGELOG.md

Android signing certificate (SHA-256): 4e41b5c80d00e40b264abfe65c986a8b6d1f4fdff7e6d17eeb66105ae4bb1685