Here's how things are looking on the horizon:
PadLock will be receiving an update which brings some visual bug fixes with the Floating Action Button(s), a more robust database reset feature, other general bugfixes, and the ability to display an optional "password hint" on the lock screen. The password hint will be entered via a mini FAB that will appear on screen once the user creates a lock password. Once the hint is set, the user can view it on the lock screen by enabling the hint (on a per prompt basis).
The next release will also bring some visual styling to the lock dialog, which will pop out more and be easier to quickly glean information from. It will also bring some improvements to the "Additional Info" option on the Lock Screen.
Power Manager will bring more robust handling of Doze on Marshmallow devices. Because Doze is such a powerful feature, Power Manager will be configured in such a way that regardless of what other radios Power Manager is handling, if Doze will be expected to run in a given situation, Doze will take priority over all other radios. This means that Power Manager will forgo turning off the device Wifi and in exchange, will only handle Doze. The Android system will then take over and manage device radio's automatically, providing the same benefits as Power Manager would normally with even more power savings.
Doze can also be configured to turn off the sensors on the device so that upon entering Doze mode, the device will not wake out of Doze mode upon being moved or other actions. The device will awake from Doze mode normally once you begin using it again. The device can also be configured to always enter Doze (even when charging) and never enter Doze mode if you so require.
SoftGlow will be updated as well to follow a new backend system where instead of basic screen tinting around the time of day, SoftGlow will read from the current light in your area. If the room you are in is dark for example, SoftGlow will activate, even if it is high noon. This change will be breaking and will bump the minimum supported level for SoftGlow, but it will maintain API 16 compatibility with a backwards compatible implementation of the old time based system.
Pasterino will be getting looked at to see what can be done with the issue of pasting into WebViews (which are not accessible by accessibility services...) to allow you to paste into fields in applications like Amazon and Google Chrome automatically.
ZapTorch will be getting looked at to see if it is feasible to add a partial wakelock to catch button keypress events even while the screen is off. If this is estimated to have too large of a battery impact, this feature will not be added, or will be added under an EXPERIMENTAL tag.
Home Button is still in maintenance mode, QuickSwitch may be looked at for a full reworking.
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