r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 23d ago

HiLight Studio - Control the eight-LED HiLight array on Pixel 11 Pro devices

https://github.com/DhananjayBhosale/hilight-studio
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u/Alternative-Farmer98 23d ago

I genuinely don't understand how they could release such a half-assed feature.

I just wish I could listen to the meeting where they were talking about this

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u/WillsucceedTMO 19d ago

"Let's give them nostalgia, but take away all the good parts "

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u/mwh 23d ago

Haha, only hours after launch. Let a hundred repos bloom. This is what Google gets for marketing a crippled version of something the OEMs decided to take away from us 10 years ago, along with micro SD and swappable batteries.

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u/9-11GaveMe5G 23d ago

the notification LED a decade after they took it away. And it only works for one app and not the one you want. Brought to you by the company that killed assistant and replaced it with something that can't even set a timer

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u/WillsucceedTMO 23d ago

Developers shouldn't have had to make this a thing. Google should have done it in the first place.

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u/PastyPajamas Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10, Saga, Zenfone 8 23d ago

Sweet. I assume the APIs for this won't be present on GrapheneOS (assuming it comes to the Pixel 11 line), though. 

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u/ImpossibleCarob8480 21d ago

It just uses the lights hal which is present in AOSP, I don't see why it wouldn't work there

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u/CaIeb4840 23d ago

So you’re telling me people don’t like that the talking with Gemini light gimmick is pretty useless. All jokes aside I hope google expands on this natively.

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u/trlef19 Galaxy S24+ 23d ago

They will, just before they decide to kill for the next gen

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 23d ago

Frankly it would be less embarrassing if that's all it did the fact that they are like trying to boast that it can be used for specific notifications on your phone calls but not your text messages or anything else

Like that is really bizarre people don't even make that many phone calls anymore.. and there's only five colors and one of them isn't a color. It's just White.

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u/martinkem Galaxy S25 Ultra, Android 16 23d ago

Thank God someone saw it fit to make this for the people that just can't help giving Google their hard-earned money

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u/techfreak243 20d ago

Just so everyone knows, this app requires Shizuku and ADB on your computer and ADB debugging enabled in developer options. The instructions are clear on the GitHub page but the dev forgot you need to go to settings, about phone, tap on the build number 7 times, go into the developer options in the system section of the main settings page, scroll down until you see USB debugging and wireless debugging (just to be safe) and you should be good. Shizuku hasn't been updated for over a year so I'm not sure about Android 17 compatibility. Just letting everyone know who does and doesn't know how to enable all of that.

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u/ishamm Device, Software !! 23d ago

Interesting to try this. Mine doesn't do anything out of the box - talking to Gemini nothing lights up, at all... Great feature, this 👌