Release v2.5 · LeanBitLab/Lwidget

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🚀 What's New in v2.5

Full Vector Iconography: Replaced all emojis and legacy icons with 20+ handcrafted Material 3 vector drawables across all settings rows, headers, and pickers.
Modern Pill Navigation Tabs: Rebuilt category tabs into Material 3 pill indicators with elastic selection animations and vertical icon/label layouts.
Filled Pill Presets: Upgraded preset chips to Material 3 filled container selectors for clean, instant visual feedback.
Pinned Live Preview Header: Live widget preview remains pinned at the top with a wallpaper backdrop dynamically synced to system dark/light themes.

120fps Fluid Sorting: Instant in-memory item reordering with deferred persistence and live preview updates on item release.
Zero Scroll Conflicts: Implemented recursive parent touch locking across all parent scroll containers to eliminate scroll hijacking during drag.
Tactile Haptics & Elevation: Added subtle haptic tick feedback and dynamic card lift animations (translationZ) when grabbing items.
Streamlined Reorder View: Clean flat view with dimmed disabled items and enlarged 36dp grab hitboxes.

Square & 2x2 Widget Resizing: Full support for launcher resizing down to compact square footprints with real-time onAppWidgetOptionsChanged re-rendering.
Concentric Outline Alignment: Perfectly matched corner arc origins and perimeter boundaries between widget outline and background fill.
Typographical Stacking Math: Resolved right-column item overlapping across all 11 font styles using calculated typographical line-heights.

Per-App Language Switcher: Added in-app language switching supporting 10 languages (Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Chinese) with Auto-System detection.
100% Localization: Complete string translations across all settings cards, toggles, dialogs, and setup screens.

Target SDK 36: Built and tested against Android 16 with full edge-to-edge system insets handling.
Foreground Service Fix: Eliminated ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException crashes on background execution.
24-Hour Alarm Formatting: Added 24-hour time formatting support for the next alarm display.
Ultra-Lightweight Footprint: Memory usage optimized to ~7.8 MB heap with zero memory leaks and zero compiler warnings.