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+AGL Home Screen reference implementation
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+
+AGL repo for source code:
+https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/#/admin/projects/staging/HomeScreen
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+
+v0.1.0
+06/24/2016
+
+#changes
+- reworked status bar
+- reviewed D-Bus interfaces, now using signals instead of methods for day/night mode
+- created new home screen simulator app
+- license changed to Apache 2.0
+- put D-Bus introspections in one central place
+- disabled "only one instance allowed" for development
+
+v0.0.2
+06/13/2016
+
+#changes
+- created layout 1. Changed home screen app size to 1080x1920
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+v0.0.1
+06/01/2016
+
+#new features
+- initial version
+- first implementation of home screen
+- fix HMI layout (will be configurable in the future)
+- dBus as IPC (may change in the future)
+- no interaction with application manager so far
+- multi-lanuage support
+- day/night mode support
+- initial status bar implementation (interface will be enhanced in the future)
+- initial control bar implementation
+- MPLv2.0 license
+- input device simulator for developer build (not functional right now)
+- system settings simulator for developer build (day/night mode switch functional right now)
+- using QSettings for local app setting storage (may change in the future)
+- first popup implementation (single popup support for now; multiple popup not defined; interface will change)
+- only one instance of the app allowed
+
+#TODOs
+- define and implement control bar D-Bus-interface
+- many settings have to be read from the system somewhere during app startup. This is not available right now
+- interaction with application manager
+- interaction with wayland compositor
+- define and implement input device event handler
+- replace my HMI design with the official AGL design (graphics/icons...)
+- implement example HMI layouts
+- fix font issues on target
+- more documentation ;)
+- add animations
+- much more...
+
+Thanks to Umar Irshad for his free iconset available here:
+https://dribbble.com/shots/1569128-Freebie-48-Bubbles-Iconset
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