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📜 TrinketOS Changelog

Chapter II — The Impossible Beacon

2025-07-23

Additions

  • New page types
    • Task List (with local and global task list)
    • Web page (open any web page in a scroll design block)
    • Retroarch
    • Tapp (full tab)
  • New list items
    • Tapp link
    • Mini-tapp
    • Retroarch link
    • Task list item (only in Task list page)
  • New Big Icons
    • Tapp link
    • Retroarch link
  • New Trinkets
    • Beacon (links to Beacon interface, is highlighted when new signals are received)

New features

  • Support for smaller, squarish, vertical screens

  • Support running on Android down to 6 (SDK23)

  • Design

    • Horizontal margins
    • Vertical margins
    • Asymmetry
    • Resize large backgrounds (saves them to Images folder)
    • Pixelation level for backgrounds
    • One page mode
    • UI scale
    • Screen orientation setting (automatic or manual)
    • Create custom glyphs and use them as icons
    • Create custom colors
    • Choose cursor image
    • Support for custom animated backgrounds (use .gif files)

  • Workshop

    • Colorize icons/images for Big Icons
    • Pixelate images fro Big Icons
    • Hide edit buttons for Task List

  • Sound

    • Mood music control
    • Music now tries to resume from the same place it was paused (e.g. when opening an app)

  • Controls

    • Keyboard remapping
    • Added control WiFi and Bluetooth to button roles
    • Added Page Switch (for One Page mode) to button roles

  • System

    • Hide screen when locked with glyph
    • Added resettings name and icon of apps

  • Trinkets

    • Selection of custom time zone

  • Added confirmation when resetting all types of settings

Tapps and Mini-tapps (check tapps_howto.md)

Fixes

  • Scrolling/selection mechanism received big updates, now it correctly remembers the previous and other-page selections
  • Copying big files no more leads to crash
  • Large background files do not slow down the system if they are resized
  • Fixed hidden apps resetting on restart
  • Fixed disabled sounds resetting on restart
  • Fixed clock display (e.g. minutes not displaying on some settings)
  • Fixed SD card shown twice in File Page
  • Fixed Dpad and sticks not changing volume and brightness on Big Icons pages
  • Fixed Sprite position resetting or not visible on settings change or restart
  • Fixed not-centered icons (like Monitor, Glasses)
  • Fixed occasional errors with Tabs editing (due to their naming)
  • Fixed Sprite trying to talk when it is hidden
  • Apps are now sorted alphabetically including renamed ones
  • Reworked screen masking system, so it is more lightweight

Chapter I — Dweller

2025-06-11

Initial public release of TrinketOS.
A pixel-crafted, controller-first launcher designed for Android-based handhelds. More than a launcher — a terminal shell with personality, widgets, achievements, and hats.

✨ Core Features

  • Tab-based layout: Create, reorder, rename, and iconify up to two-page custom tabs.
  • Page types: Support for app/shortcuts lists, text files, images, file lists, custom lists and big icons horizontal lists.
  • Settings tab (non-removable): Access all controls and configuration sectors.

🧩 Trinkets

  • Top
    • Clock
    • Date
    • Hat
    • Moon phase
    • Zodiac sign
    • Custom image
    • Custom text
    • Dice
  • Bottom
    • Status
      • SD Card
      • External screen/AR glasses
      • Bluetooth
      • Wi-Fi
    • Status with bar/number
      • Battery
      • Screen brightness
      • Sound volume
    • Music player

🎮 Controller Support

  • Full navigation with D-Pad or stick
  • Assign any action to any button (open tabs, control music, etc.)
  • Custom selection logic (no default Android rectangles)

🎨 Design & Personalization

  • Colors with loreful names
  • Pixel icon set
  • Customizable backgrounds (general and separate for tabs and for big icons pages)
  • Glyph-based screen lock

🧙 Sprite Companions

  • Two skins: Merlin the Wizard and Robert the Robot
  • Companions blink, sleep, speak, and react to system events
  • Draggable & thematically aware

🎩 Skills, Hats & Achievements

  • Track progress in skills: Adventurer, Artist, Engineer, Patron, Bard
  • Unlock themed hats with skill levels
    • Example: play games to gain Adventurer XP, tinker with design to gain Artist XP
  • Get achievements

🧾 Glyph ID System

  • Users that participate in the project or support us receive unique visual glyphs (instead of traditional codes)
  • Supports simple one-time remote verification of supporters via GitHub JSON (with salt) — no hidden databases or constant online requests

📁 Workbench Tools

  • Text/Markdown files viewer
  • Glyph editor (with visual grid)
  • File explorer with basic actions
  • Image files viewer
  • Big icons configuration
  • App//shortcut management

🧠 Meta & Community

  • Built-in version screen with trinket name, art, and lore
  • “Inventory” section to browse past versions and updates
  • Sprite speaks lore-dependent phrases on boot

Made with care, soldered in solitude, and offered freely to fellow explorers of strange UIs.