π Tags! Organize your Lite Apps better with tags. Many ready-made Lite Apps are already tagged, and you can also define and use your own tags. This is an Early Access feature in Hermit 14. Send us your feedback!
π Grid View is now default for everyone, out of Early Access. Drag Lite Apps to re-order them in the grid. The list layout is now gone. To delete Lite Apps, open the Lite App, go to Settings, and pick Remove from the toolbar menu.
β‘ Keep Lite Apps in RAM longer: We heard from many of you that you would like to see Hermit Lite Apps stay in memory longer, so although a low limit helps Hermit work well on low-RAM devices, weβve increased the size of saved state from 300KB to 800KB. Also, Lite Apps wonβt be closed on pressing the Back button.
β‘ Open Native Apps: new privacy setting β Hermit can now open native apps with your permission if a Lite App asks for it.
β‘ Install Native Apps: new privacy setting β Hermit can now open Play Store with your permission if a Lite App asks for it.
β‘ Search Icon is now back in the toolbar! We heard from many of you that you preferred the one-click access to custom site search.
β‘ Renamed Customization to Settings everywhere to reduce confusion between the two.
π Correctly opens links from notifications and other sources passed to a Lite App.
β‘ Switched from JobScheduler to WorkManager. Periodic tasks for checking notifications were not being correctly reinstated after restarting the phone.
β‘ Removed the 5 minute sync interval frequency; it is not supported by JobScheduler or WorkManager, and will be clamped to a minimum of 15 minutes anyway.
π βAdd Bookmarkβ button is now in the left navigation drawer, just below the list of bookmarks.
β‘ When a site you browse to is blocked by the Ad Blocker, Hermit shows a message letting you know about it.
β‘ Scriptlets are now inline in Quick Settings instead of on a separate screen.
π Added a button to open the Settings drawer from the standalone Reader App. Previously, you could swipe in from the right edge, but there was no hint that this was possible.
β‘ Instead of showing a few ungrouped notifications, now all notifications over 5 from a single source are grouped together.
π Added support for downloading βblob:β URIs directly from the WebView. Fixes Voice Memos and other Lite Apps.
π Moved around a bunch of settings to better organize them. Check out the Settings for any Lite App.