I was hoping to release it as stable… but Android development is becoming increasingly difficult.

I am currently struggling with the support of Android 6, which is everything but trivial. Support for floating desktop should work again on 6 but the new permission handling is giving me headaches.

As of today, Lightning will display some notice about permission, try to avoid crashes, and that’s all. Nothing more. I will not wade throughout the code and add permission checks and request their activation everywhere the app needs to do something, this is just beyond me (at the moment). And I don’t even speak of scripts…

OK, end of my moaning 😉

What it means exactly is that the app may not behave as expected or it may behave strangely: in this case please have a look at permissions. I’ll try to improve things over time.

This beta doesn’t contain sensitive modifications, but it is the first to be built using the new SDK. Differences in behavior can be expected, including on version before Android 6.

For these reasons I am once again asking your help, dear Beta Testers, to check for possible regressions.

Full ChangeLog can be found here: http://www.lightninglauncher.com/wordpress/change-log/ ‎