Release LinkToMac 0.8.3 · grkndev/LinkToMac

Combined Android + Mac release. No wire-protocol changes — a 0.8.x Mac and 0.8.x phone stay fully compatible regardless of exact patch version.

Android — reliability fixes (issues #29, #30, #31)

Three issues that together made the app unusable in common real-world conditions.

The clipboard daemon now self-heals from an OS memory-pressure kill (#31). One UI/lmkd can and does kill the privileged dex daemon under memory pressure with no reboot. It's launched wrapped in a tiny shell-UID supervisor loop: if the daemon dies, the supervisor respawns it in ~3s with the same port and secret — no ADB, no Wi-Fi, no user interaction.
"Try again" on the Reconnect screen no longer hangs forever (#30). adb.connect()'s TLS handshake had no timeout and could silently freeze the retry button forever. It's now properly bounded, and the button shows a spinner while a retry is actually in flight.
Mobile Hotspot no longer locks you out of the whole app (#29). Wireless Debugging can't run while the phone is a Wi-Fi hotspot, so hitting the ADB reconnect path used to strand the entire UI behind a full-screen gate even though remote lock, battery telemetry, and notification/SMS mirroring kept working underneath. The app now gives the daemon a fair chance to reattach on a cold launch, and shows a small dismissible banner instead of a hard lock-out whenever the phone↔Mac link is alive.

Notification banners no longer silently drop the very first mirrored notification if it races the initial permission prompt.
If notification permission is denied, Settings now shows an "Open Notification Settings…" affordance instead of a toggle that silently no-ops forever.
Opening the dashboard at launch (e.g. as a background "Start at login" item) no longer steals focus from whatever app you're already using; Dock reopen and the menu panel's "Open Window…" still bring it to front as expected.
A couple of latent (never-triggered) force-unwrap crash risks in the Messages tab were hardened defensively.

Android (linktomac-preview-0.8.3.apk): sideload (dev-client style install; not Play-distributed). This release changes native code, so it's not delivered as an EAS OTA update — reinstall or push the APK over adb.
Mac (LinkToMac-0.8.3.dmg): ad-hoc signed, not notarized → first launch is right-click → Open (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LinkToMac.app). Existing installs update automatically via Sparkle.