CONTACTS APP GENERATOR release notes

Features & improvements

• Added branding_accent as a flat managed-configuration key for generated CAG apps.
• Deployed apps can now be re-tinted by EMM managed configuration without a rebuild.
• Runtime accent resolution now uses the effective managed configuration first, then falls back to the baked build accent.
• Validated the key through Android's managed-configuration path on a generated app.

Fixes

• Corrected CAG documentation to describe the accent as EMM-configurable.

Known issues

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Features & improvements

• Added a Studio header home button that returns to the gen.bayton.org generators hub.
• On narrow screens, the home action appears as a full-width item in the collapsed header menu.

Fixes

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Known issues

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Features & improvements

• Studio now confirms before importing a config over an in-progress build.
• The welcome screen remains exempt because no operator-entered configuration exists there yet.

Fixes

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Known issues

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Features & improvements

• Studio's live preview now reflects the selected theme mode.
• Light and Dark render explicitly; Auto follows the preview system day/night setting, matching the generated app.

Fixes

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Known issues

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Features & improvements

• Renamed individual managed-configuration override keys from dotted names to underscore names for better EMM console compatibility.
• The whole config_json shape is unchanged; only flat single-key managed-configuration overrides are affected.

Fixes

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Known issues

• This is a breaking change for EMMs already pushing dotted keys such as branding.theme_mode. Switch to the underscored equivalent, such as branding_theme_mode.

Features & improvements

• Added downloadable CSV and JSON starter files for contact sources.
• Linked starter files from the classic form and Studio docs.
• Clarified that VCF is the standard vCard format and should usually be exported from an existing contacts system rather than hand-authored.

Fixes

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Known issues

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Features & improvements

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Fixes

• Fixed release-build crashes caused by R8 stripping WorkManager/Room classes needed by the generated app's sync scheduler.
• Verified minified release APKs launch through WorkManager initialisation to the normal first-run flow.

Known issues

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Features & improvements

• Initial stable CONTACTS APP GENERATOR release.
• Generates signed Android Managed Contacts apps from VCF, CSV, or JSON sources.
• Supports built-in contact files, URL-backed sources, managed configuration, Studio and classic build surfaces, signing modes, source export, config export, and update-code reuse.
• Raises embedded source-file support to 32 MiB to match the generated app's runtime source ceiling.

Fixes

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Known issues

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