When Google announced the Pixel 11 bid past week, it showed disconnected a caller "upgrade" for its Pro devices—including the Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. "HiLight" is simply a mini ray circle that rests connected the camera barroom of these Pro Pixels, and is designed to passively hint users into alerts while their phones are look down. If HiLight glows red, possibly you person an incoming telephone from your friend; if it glows blue, possibly Gemini is processing your request. The colour that glows is up to you, but the halfway thought is the same: If HiLight is glowing, it's because personification is calling you, aliases Gemini is working.
Unfortunately, there's thing other HiLight tin do retired of the box, which seems for illustration a large missed opportunity for a brand-new hardware feature. Google wants customers to walk much for a Pro device, only to springiness them 2 things to do pinch this Pixel 11 Pro exclusive. And while there's surely immoderate inferior successful assigning contacts different colors, to silently cognize who's calling without needing to prime up your Pixel, location are truthful galore different possibilities for HiLight that the existent loop feels measurement underbaked.
'HiLight Studio' makes the Pixel 11 Pro's LED useful
Enter: HiLight Studio, a caller app from developer DhananjayBhosale. DhanajayBhosale's announcement appeared connected my X feed, and it instantly caught my attention. The developer designed the app to return afloat advantage of Google's caller hardware, moreover if Google isn't taking advantage itself. With HiLight Studio, you tin delegate colors and effects for notifications from immoderate app connected your Pixel, not conscionable contacts. Chrome alerts tin beryllium blue, WhatsApp alerts tin beryllium green, and truthful on. In addition, you tin efficaciously take immoderate shadiness of immoderate colour that Android allows, down to saturation and strength levels.
There are besides 5 lighting effects you tin take from: "Rainbow," "Comet," "Pulse," "Breathe," and "Wave," positive "Random" if you want to beryllium surprised. These effects spell beyond choosing a coagulated color: An alert could ray up HiLight rainbow, aliases beat successful red. You tin take really agelong the colors and effects enactment connected for aft each notification, and erstwhile to forestall HiLight from activating (e.g. while the surface is off, during Do Not Disturb, aliases erstwhile the artillery hits a percent you designate). You tin prevention your presets and export them to different apps, and you tin entree your settings done a Quick Settings tile.
To beryllium clear, this is not an app you tin download from the Play Store. Instead, you request to instal the APK from GitHub, which successful move needs shell-level entree to your Pixel's lights service. That involves either mounting up done Shizuku aliases ADB. DhanajayBhosale has instructions for each method, but support successful mind that this is simply a much method attack than a elemental app download. Luckily, there's nary request to guidelines your Pixel for this to work.
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