Home Assistant Companion App Android 2025.11.1

In this release, there are a whole bunch of bug fixes as well as a few improvements, Android 5.0 & 5.1 Support and Configurable Gestures

There are quite a few additions and a whole bunch of bug fixes in this release!

@TimoPtr did a lot of updating with the onboarding setup process, as well as the server selection and a few other things this release!

• Add onboarding navigation scaffold and Welcome Screen updated in #5705
• Add new onboarding server discovery in #5731
• Add onboarding manual server setup in #5736
• Add onboarding connection screen in #5759
• Add onboarding name your device in #5761
• Add onboarding local first screen in #5766
• Navigate to WebViewActivity from the new onboarding in #5769
• Add onboarding location sharing screens in #5794
• Improve ux server discovery and connection screen in #5815
• Add onboarding deeplinks (invite and redirect) in #5818
• Add onboarding support for automotive in #5821
• Update HAButton and HATextField according to the design system in #5828
• Stop loading when the webview is released in #5829
• Add GitHub tasks in #5843
• Set maxlines to 1 in the manual server and name your device screens in #5844
• Add onboarding for wear in #5845
• Add onboarding wear mTLS screen in #5848
• Change PressureSensor device_class to atmospheric_pressure in #5849
• Add HASwitch based on material3 Switch in #5850
• Adjust ha space naming in #5852
• Add missing GitHub action explicit permissions in #5855
• Add onboarding set home network in #5856
• Handle launcher reference in #5858
• Update editorconfig to match our YAML configuration in #5860
• Build release APK on PR in #5861
• Improve CI efficiency by moving Ktlint up in the flow in #5875
• Make new onboarding available in debug in #5876
• Narrow down the permissions required by the workflows in #5877
• Add back content read permission to allow git checkout in #5878
• Properly test WearDnsRequestListener using GMS task in #5880
• Support homeassistant://navigate deep links in #5889
• Add missing content write permission for update screenshot workflow in #5890
• Change default button size to MEDIUM in #5892
• Add an option to hide existing servers in server discovery in #5893
• Disable lint tasks while building release in PR workflow in #5895
• Add skip welcome screen option to onboarding in #5897
• Adjust onboarding UI in #5898
• Remove any suffix from the URL while building the auth URL in #5900
• Adjust server discovery flow by #5902
• Revert ‘Update dependency ruby to v3.4.7’ in #5906
• Adjust wording in welcome screen about Home Assistant in #5908
• Automatically scroll to the end of LocationForSecureConnection on select in #5911
• Make sure to clear the back stack after NameYourDevice is done in #5912
• Introduce HABanner, HAHint and add privacy hint to sensor details in #5923
• Add missing content write permission for the weekly workflow in #5925
• Bring back the changelog from the previous release in #5927
• Add Bluetooth permission to LocationPermissionState in #5932
• Display LocalFirstScreen only when necessary in #5933
• Add missing abbrev for fastlane on Ruby 3.4.7 in #5940
• Add HADetails composable in #5943
• Add HAIconButton composable in #5944
• Add a dedicated error connection screen in #5945
• Store translations in GitHub release for F-droid in #5946
• Tweak RAM for screenshots testing in #5947
• Add AI instructions files in #5959
• Add ignore violation for strict mode on Samsung phones in #5962
• Disable lint tasks while building release in #5963
• Use positional arguments in string for description content in #5975
• Remove horizontal safe insets for ModalBottomSheet in #5979

@dshokouhi set the default server AA favourites in #5750

@selva7378 made their first contributions!

• Replaced Named annotations in datamodule with custom qualifiers in #5757
• Add custom lint rule to forbid usage of @nAmed annotation in #5788

@silamon made their first contribution with a pin SHA for all Github Actions in #5787

@yschimke added WearDns for handling DNS resolution on Wear devices in #5170

@loganrosen did some fixes

• Fix ‘UseKtx’ lint warnings in ‘app’ module in #5807
• Fix ‘UseKtx’ lint warnings in ‘wear’ module in #5819
• Fix ‘AutoboxingStateCreation’ lint warnings in ‘app’ module in #5826
• Fix ‘UseKtx’ and ‘TypographyDashes’ lint warnings in ‘common’ module in #5827
• Fix ‘ObsoleteSdkInt’ lint warnings in ‘wear’ module in #5919

@jpelgrom also did some fixes

• Do not send recording/voice input to Assist if input is intentionally interrupted in #5832
• Update (deprecated) vehicle template header builder in #5853
• Rename Zone name only -> Zone only in #5957
• Check for background read feature availability in Health Connect in #5958
• Fix HATextField with maxLines 1 scrolling vertically in #5960

@Martreides added open settings button to camera tile in #5708

@BFadairo made their first contribution by converting SettingsWearActivity to use Jetpack Compose in #5764

Of course, the @renovate[bot] was busy with a bunch of maintenance and a few updates

• Update com.android.* in #5738
• Update dependency com.google.android.material:material to v1.13.0 in #5751
• Update actions/github-script action to v8 in #5754
• Lock file maintenance in #5756
• Update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2.3.3 in #5765
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android-core to v8.21.0 in #5773
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android-core to v8.21.1 in #5777
• Update org.jetbrains.kotlin.* to v2.2.20 in #5778
• Update androidx.compose.* in #5782
• Update dependency com.google.devtools.ksp to v2.2.20-2.0.2 in #5783
• Update wear.compose to v1.5.1 in #5784
• Update dependency com.google.devtools.ksp to v2.2.20-2.0.3 in #5790
• Lock file maintenance in #5791
• Update ruby/setup-ruby action to v1.263.0 in #5806
• Update plugin dev.panuszewski.typesafe-conventions to v0.8.0 in #5808
• Update Gradle to v9.1.0 in #5810
• Lock file maintenance in #5811
• Update GitHub/codeql-action digest to 303c0ae in #5824
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android-core to v8.22.0 in #5825
• Update GitHub/codeql-action digest to 3599b3b in #5830
• Update hilt to v2.57.2 in #5831
• Update androidx.compose.* in #5833
• Update wear.compose to v1.5.2 in #5834
• Update actions/cache action to v4.3.0 in #5836
• Lock file maintenance in #5842
• Update GitHub/codeql-action digest to 64d10c1 in #5862
• Update dependency org.junit:junit-bom to v5.14.0 in #5865
• Update dependency org.junit:junit-bom to v6 in #5866
• Update dependency io.mockk:mockk to v1.14.6 in #5868
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android-core to v8.23.0 in #5869
• Update gradle/actions action to v5 in #5870
• Lock file maintenance in #5874
• Update plugin dev.panuszewski.typesafe-conventions to v0.8.1 in #5882
• Update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2.4.0 in #5886
• Update GitHub/codeql-action digest to e296a93 in #5894
• Update dependency ruby to v3.4.7 in #5901
• Update dependency ruby to v3.4.7 in #5907
• Update dependency com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-bom to v5.2.1 in #5913
• Update dependency com.google.devtools.ksp to v2.2.20-2.0.4 in #5914
• Update plugin dev.panuszewski.typesafe-conventions to v0.9.0 in #5915
• Update ruby/setup-ruby action to v1.265.0 in #5916
• Update androidx.compose.* in #5917
• Update wear.compose to v1.5.3 in #5918
• Update dependency com.google.gms.google-services to v4.4.4 in #5924
• Update GitHub/codeql-action action to v4.30.8 in #5928
• Update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2.4.1 in #5937
• Lock file maintenance in #5953
• Update GitHub/codeql-action action to v4.30.9 in #5955
• Update dependency com.github.AppDevNext:ChangeLog to v3.8.1 in #5961
• Update androidx.compose.* in #5966
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android-core to v8.24.0 in #5968
• Update org.jetbrains.kotlin.* in #5969
• Lock file maintenance in #5973
• Update github/codeql-action action to v4.31.0 in #5977
• Update GitHub Artifact Actions (major) in #5978

Thank you, everyone, for the great release!

You can read the full changelog here