Velis Auto Brightness

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About this app

NOTICE: this app has been discontinued and only remains in the play store for existing users.

Usage manual & FAQ: http://velisthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/velis-auto-brightness-manual.html
XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910521

Note: This app uses Accessibility services for the following functions:
- lock screen
- screen overlay
- service operation
We do not collect any data and do not perform any actions.

Note: The app also uses permission to query all installed apps for the following functions:
- Excluded apps feature: displaying the list of all installed apps so that you can select which ones to exclude
We do not collect any data and do not use the permission for anything other than identifying the apps you want VAB to turn off for.

Note: Despite this, it still needs some other special permissions. All needed permissions are explained in the initial configuration wizard and you will be directed to their appropriate configuration pages as you set up the app for the first time. Any missing permissions of this nature are reported in a snack on main page.
Note: Notification is mandatory for this app because without it Android will stop the service too often for too long.

Also please see XDA thread about language support. Any translation help most welcome!

Velis auto brightness aims to provide the best possible brightness experience by using your devices sensors to determine the environment you're in. You have complete control over how much brightness will be applied for any given light condition, from selecting the sensors used to fully customizable brightness graph. This is a replacement for system provided auto-brightness functionality usually found in Settings / Display / Brightness

Features:

- Initial configuration wizard for an easy start
- User-selectable sensors: light, proximity, cameras
- Brightness presets for every taste and screen
- Profiles (save the brightness graph under your own name)
- Fully customizable brightness graph to fit your needs or cover your sensor’s faults
- Extensive sensitivity adjustments (light change threshold, smoothing times up / down, boost threshold)
- Superdimming to make those shades really dark
- Excluded apps (will disable Velis Auto Brightness when they are in use)
- Launcher widget with on/off button, profile select button and a brightness graph
- Tasker / Locale support for many sensor readings and app settings
- Convenient in-app store for premium content (some tasker and widget functionality) and developer support
- Custom app language
- Additional brightness when charging
- Only uses sensors when screen is on conserving battery

Tasker plug-in / Locale plug-in: Provides conditions for screen on, calculated light reading, proximity sensor reading, calculated brightness. Exposes many settings to locale / tasker for detailed adjustment from these managers. Some of this functionality is premium content available through in-app purchase.

App homepage: http://velisthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/09/velis-auto-brightness.html
XDA thread (best for support): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32142069

Activating multiple auto-brightness applications will not produce expected results so make sure only Velis auto brightness is active while you test it. This file is provided AS IS - without any warranty. The autor will not be liable for any (un)imaginable inconveniences, including, but not limited to your phone frying or your screen starting to shoot launcher widgets at you. :)

This app is available in following languages: Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Italian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Slovene, Vietnamese
Thanks to all the translators for their hard work. Please see homepage if you want to help with translations.

Ratings and reviews

Thanks for the useful app! I am using VAB as an alternative to Lux (discontinued) on my new phone. Although the configuration is very complicated, it does work. I am now tweaking the config. with various changing light levels. I feel the screen brightness step should be smaller (< 1) when the light level is very low. But it might not be achievable due to phone or Android's specs.

Has been working great for years and now after the latest update it hangs and doesn't adjust anymore. >.< I had a bad feeling about this update after going so long without problems, I should've followed my gut and refused the update. [BTW, it works fine for me without the interactive notification on Oreo. Just excluded it from battery optimization in system settings and it stays active all the time, I have no issues. Usually just stops when installing an update for it or when I kill it myself.]

THIS IS IT. What you want: an app that will automatically dim your screen more than Android's retina-searing auto brightness. This does that. You'll want to enable "superdim" under advanced settings, which allows even lower brightness levels. The only way an app can fix this is by drawing over the screen, and recent versions of Android make it harder to do this instead of fixing auto-brightness. I hope this app continues to work or we can get the dev to open source it. No updates since 2017.

What's new

* Fix an issue where settings would not activate transparent widget setting on purchase
* Fix for triple touch not accepting values higher than 3
* Fix for app not receiving notification of charger plugging in / disconnecting