Paka 0.15.1 is the last release line supporting Light Phone 2. It adds a Developer light mode for e-ink screens, shows QR and Aztec codes on a compact centred stage, and roughly halves the download by shipping one CPU architecture per APK.
Which APK?
Paka-v0.15.1.apk— arm64. Light Phone III and every modern Android phone.Paka-v0.15.1-arm32.apk— 32-bit. Light Phone 2 and other older 32-bit devices. On Light Phone 2, manual pass entry, code display, 2FA, photo import, backups, and light mode work; scanning, in-app capture, and PDF passes need a camera and Android 11.
Highlights
- Show QR and Aztec codes on a centred compact stage surrounded by screen background instead of an almost edge-to-edge white panel. The rendered symbol is unchanged: full quiet zone, exact whole-module grid, and decode verification before display.
- Add a persistent app-wide light mode to Developer settings — black text on paper-white, made for e-ink displays such as Light Phone 2, localised in all eight languages. The camera, capture review, and full-screen document viewers keep their dark backdrop, and rendered codes remain dark modules on a white field in both modes.
- Ship one CPU architecture per release APK instead of four, roughly halving the download.
Reliability and security
- Remove interrupted-write temporaries together with their store and recognise them in orphan cleanup.
- Close a narrow race between a pass save's document cleanup and a concurrently starting restore.
- Verify that stable release tags carry a development version suffix, and validate preview naming without hardcoding the cycle name.
- Restore the clipboard TOTP handling and capture metadata-stripping disclosures in the README.
- Measure long translated menu labels before first draw instead of visibly shrinking them into place.
Release verification
- Unit tests, localisation/resource tests, Android lint, detekt, debug, minified preview, and minified release builds passed on the release commit.
- APK:
Paka-v0.15.1.apk(arm64-v8a) - APK SHA-256:
46c0caecffc6e39051ccb10555216d18ab7d2f2c8b554aa10b906bf884d22a11 - APK:
Paka-v0.15.1-arm32.apk(armeabi-v7a) - APK SHA-256:
10b69dd4febdb4a8dec82b156c3a8c16ba88341cd69e76dd58d021baf930d2e2 - Signing certificate SHA-256:
098fbb0a5455ec00dbafae93f16bff74b048e5bde7a824fac9ecf42effad0019 - Permissions:
android.permission.CAMERAonly
The complete chronological notes are in CHANGELOG.md.