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[Feature]: More live updates - Conscious gate, calendar and music ...

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Since Sep 24, 2026.

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Description

enhancement
Problem Statement

The dynamic island overlay creates cohesion, redundancy and performance issues on devices that already feature native status bar pills or dynamic islands.

Proposed Solution

Really enjoying the new beta update for Essentials—the Conscious Gate timer in the island overlay is a fantastic idea and genuinely useful for mindful screen time.

It's just that, for devices that already have a system-level dynamic island or status bar chip (ColorOS, HyperOS, OriginOS), having Essentials draw a secondary window overlay introduces redundant visual clutter and adds an extra HWC layer for the display to manage.

Would you consider adding an option to route events like the Conscious Gate timer, Calendar Events and Peek Song Change through native Android Live Updates?

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Priority

Medium - Would improve my experience

Contribution
  • I would be willing to implement this feature
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