Roost v0.9.1 — Slim tiles read right

A small polish patch on top of v0.9.0.

🔧 Fixes

• Slim tiles read right. In Slim density, launch tiles (apps, web apps, shortcuts) now show their action verb — "tap to open" / "tap to run" — instead of "ready", which was fire-state wording that never applied to a tile that just opens something. Fire tiles (HTTP actions, Home Assistant scenes) still show ready / firing… / the status code. Regular and Rich were already correct and are unchanged.

📚 Docs

• Refreshed the density screenshots (they still showed the pre-unification app-grid + ACTIONS split) and aligned the http-actions §Density prose; marked ADR-0007 accepted.

📦 Install

roost-0.9.1.apk below is a debug build — same steps as v0.9.0:

adb install -r roost-0.9.1.apk
adb shell cmd package set-home-activity rocks.stump.roost/.MainActivity

Requires Android 8.0+ (minSdk 26). Or build from source (JDK 17 + Android SDK 34): ./gradlew assembleDebug.

Roost v0.9.0 — the unified tile launcher

Roost turns a spare Android phone into a dedicated device for your AI agent — it boots into your agent app and keeps your apps, web apps, and one-tap actions a tap away. It's framework-only: pure Android, no AndroidX, no Compose, no third-party libraries. This is the first tagged release.

Docs: https://joestump.github.io/roost-android-launcher/

✨ One unified tile model (new in 0.9.0)

Everything on the home except the featured agent is now one uniform grid of tiles — favorite apps, web apps, app-shortcuts, Home Assistant scenes, and HTTP actions all render the same way, in one order you arrange yourself.

• Every tile has three lines — a title, a metadata subtitle, and an action line. Apps show their category ("Productivity", "Social & Communication"), web tiles their host, HTTP tiles METHOD · host, shortcuts "shortcut".
• Filter by kind — a chip row (All / Apps / Web / Shortcuts / HTTP / Scenes) narrows the home; pick which chips appear in Settings → Appearance → Launcher filters.
• One density for everything — Slim list, Regular cards, or a Rich two-column grid; every tile reshapes together.
• Arrange Tiles — a flat drag-to-reorder + on/off list over every tile, apps included (favorites are manually orderable now).
• Accent-tinted agent hero, whole-tile tap, and a dotted-circle Store tile.

🔘 HTTP action tiles

Any endpoint becomes a one-tap tile — method + URL + headers + None/Bearer/HMAC auth + a {{var}} JSON body — with an on-tile firing state machine (idle → pending → success/queued → error → timeout), no toasts. Home Assistant scenes are one authoring path onto the same primitive. A framework-only icon picker (selfh.st / Simple Icons / Heroicons) tints monochrome glyphs to your accent.

🗂️ Synced actions

An agent can create action tiles by simply writing actions.d/*.json into a Syncthing-shared folder Roost imports — declarative (add/edit/remove a file), no on-phone server, hand-made tiles never touched.

⚙️ Settings & polish

A landing + per-category settings redesign; per-tile enable/disable & hide; <shortcut> in <App> shortcut titles; four accent themes (Honey / Slate / Sage / Violet) with a matching wallpaper; a live VPN status chip (one-tap WireGuard toggle when "Allow remote control apps" is on); a bandwidth heartbeat; a robot mascot that reads "working…" from live traffic.

📦 Install

Attached roost-0.9.0.apk is a debug build — enable "install unknown apps", sideload it, then make it Home:

adb install -r roost-0.9.0.apk
adb shell cmd package set-home-activity rocks.stump.roost/.MainActivity

Requires Android 8.0+ (minSdk 26). Or build from source (JDK 17 + Android SDK 34): ./gradlew assembleDebug.