Holey Light 1.00
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Publisher Description
Holey Light - Emulates notification LED on Samsungs/Pixels around the in-screen camera
Samsung and Google Pixel only!
100% Free - 100% GPLv3 Open Source - No ads - No tracking - No nags - Optional donation
Holey Light is a LED emulation app. It animates the edges of the camera cut-out (AKA punch-hole) as replacement for the sadly missing LED on many modern devices.
Additionally, it provides a notification display for when the screen is "off", replacing - or working in conjunction with - the Always-On Display feature. As this display is not around the camera hole, it is aptly named the Unholey Light .
Supports all Samsung devices with in-screen camera hole, and several Google Pixels.
Features
- Emulates notification LED
- Four different display modes: Swirl, Blink, Pie, Unholey Light
- Configurable animation size, position, and speed
- Customizable color for each notification channel
- Selects initial notification color by analyzing dominant color of app icon
- Displays during screen "off", sub-1% battery use per hour in Unholey Light mode
- Separate configuration modes for different power and screen states
- Ability to mark notifications as seen based on various triggers
- Respects Do-Not-Disturb and AOD schedules
- Can hide AOD completely, partially, and/or keep the clock visible
Source
Source code is available on GitHub .
Setup
Initial setup can be a bit tricky for a first-time user, but a setup wizard is included that guides you through the process.
Permissions
This app absolutely requires several permissions to be able to function. If you are concerned about that, you can always check out the source code (or not use the app).
- Accessibility: the app needs an accessibility service to render the emulated LED on-screen, and track the correct position to display in screen "off" mode.
- Notifications: a notification service is needed to be able to know about the notifications before we can show them
- Companion device: in a weird quirk of Android, this permission is required to be able to read the wanted LED color of notifications
- Battery optimization exemption: without this, Android would randomly disappear our emulated LED
- Foreground service: both an accessibility and notification service are used as described above
- Wake lock: you decide when and how the app draws on the screen, sometimes this requires making sure the CPU isn't sleeping
- All package access: we render other app's icons and access some of their base information to be able to differentiate different notifications from each-other
About Holey Light
Holey Light is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.
The company that develops Holey Light is Chainfire. The latest version released by its developer is 1.00.
To install Holey Light on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2021-03-02 and was downloaded 4 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Holey Light as malware as malware if the download link to eu.chainfire.holeylight is broken.
How to install Holey Light on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Holey Light is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Holey Light will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Holey Light will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
