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# RetroHA
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**RetroHA** is a lightweight and efficient dashboard for Home Assistant, specifically designed for legacy Android tablets intended to serve as wall-mounted home control panels.
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## Key Features
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* **Bauhaus Canvas Engine**: A custom graphics engine. The interface does not use standard Android XML views but is manually rendered on a `Canvas`. This ensures extreme fluidity even on decade-old devices.
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* **Low-End Hardware Optimization**: Minimal RAM usage, no unnecessary libraries, and aggressive caching of graphical layouts.
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* **Bauhaus Design**: A minimalist aesthetic inspired by the Bauhaus school—high contrast, geometric shapes, and maximum legibility.
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* **Kiosk Mode**: Built-in "Wake Lock" support to prevent the screen from turning off while the panel is active.
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* **Rapid Control**:
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* Tile Click: Toggle or Execute.
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* Light Long Press: Brightness menu with "slide and release" gesture (auto-save).
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## Libraries & Acknowledgments
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This project utilizes the following Open Source libraries (compliant with F-Droid requirements):
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* **Retrofit** (Square Inc.) — Apache License 2.0: Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
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* **OkHttp** (Square Inc.) — Apache License 2.0: An efficient HTTP client for Android.
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* **Gson** (Google) — Apache License 2.0: A Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation.
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* **MPAndroidChart** (PhilJay) — Apache License 2.0: A powerful Android chart view / graph view library.
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* **AndroidX Libraries** (Google) — Apache License 2.0: Component libraries for Android.
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## Technical Requirements
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* **Android**: minSdk 14 (Support back to Android 4.0 ICS), optimized for Android 4.4+.
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* **Home Assistant**: Requires Server URL and a Long-Lived Access Token.
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## Roadmap
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The current project status and planned features are detailed in [TASKS.md](./TASKS.md).
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## License
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This project is licensed under the **GNU GPL v3**. See the repository for details.
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