First stable milestone. PixelMask is now listed in the LSPosed Manager module catalog (Xposed-Modules-Repo/com.kinginu.pixelmask), with multiple Telegram reports confirming unlimited-Original-quality Photos backup working across vendors / Android versions on every LSPosed flavor we've tested — Vector, Zygisk, classic.

Fixes since 1.0.16

• LSPosed enable toggle now actually flips on a fresh install. A KSP/AGP task-ordering race was leaving assets/xposed_init out of the published APK — Vector-flavored LSPosed strictly requires that file, so the Manager would show PixelMask in the module list but the toggle silently no-op'd when tapped. Forced the asset-merge tasks to wait on KSP so the entry-class pointer is always packaged.
• Home Module Active status no longer goes stale: toggling the master switch in Settings updates the Home card in real time instead of waiting for the next app launch.
• openWebLink / openAppInfo / openApplication now show a Toast on failure instead of crashing when no browser / Photos / launcher is available.
• XposedHelpers.findClass("android.os.Build") wrapped in runCatching — a missing class now only skips prop spoof instead of crashing the whole hook.

UX

• Update card now distinguishes four states instead of two: Checking (spinner), Up to date (icon + "Checked just now / 5 minutes ago" timestamp), Check failed (warning icon, "Tap to retry," error-container colour), Update available (unchanged). Previously "up to date" and "couldn't check" rendered identically, so a flaky network looked the same as success.
• Check spinner is held for a minimum 2 seconds even when the HTTP request finishes in 50 ms, so a tap always looks like it did something.
• Removed the non-functional "Spoof only Google Photos" toggle from Settings — the strict-package check it gated was unreachable inside loadApp(name = PACKAGE_NAME_GOOGLE_PHOTOS), so the switch had been doing nothing.
• Rapid setting toggles no longer queue a snackbar per change; only the most recent reminder shows.
• 5-second connect / read timeouts on the update-check HTTP request so a slow CDN can't block the IO coroutine forever.
• Empty-response handling on update check no longer silently buckets into "no update"; surfaces as Check failed so the UI shows the retry affordance.

Internal

• FeatureLevel converted from a string-keyed data class to an enum class — typo'd device entries are now a compile error instead of a silent runtime no-spoof.
• Deduped the hasSystemFeature(String) and hasSystemFeature(String, int) hooks via a vararg helper inside the loadApp scope.

Docs / distribution

• README rewritten user-facing with screenshot banners — including a Google Photos navigation flow showing the unlimited-storage proof line. Developer / build / release internals moved to docs/INTERNALS.md.
• Releases now auto-mirror to Xposed-Modules-Repo/com.kinginu.pixelmask so the LSPosed Manager catalog picks them up automatically.

UX

• Update card now distinguishes "up to date" from "couldn't check" — the previous card said Module Up to Date / Tap to check for updates both before any check ran and after one finished, regardless of whether the HTTP request actually succeeded, so a flaky network looked identical to "you're on the latest." Four states now: Checking (spinner), Up to date (icon + "Checked just now / 5 minutes ago" timestamp), Check failed (warning icon, "Tap to retry," in the error-container color), Update available (unchanged).

Internal

• Empty-response handling on update check was previously bucketed into "no update" — it now surfaces as Failed instead, so an unparseable body shows the retry affordance instead of a misleading "up to date."

Fixes

• LSPosed enable toggle was silently no-op'ing on fresh installs because a KSP/AGP task-ordering race left assets/xposed_init out of the published APK. Force the asset-merge tasks to wait on KSP so the entry-class pointer LSPosed reads is always packaged. (Local builds were masked because previous builds left the file in the source tree, which is why this hit only some users.)

UX

• Removed the non-functional "Spoof only Google Photos" toggle from Settings — its strict-package check was unreachable, so the switch had been doing nothing.
• Home StatusCard now reflects the master-switch state in real time when you navigate back from Settings.
• openWebLink / openAppInfo / openApplication now show a Toast instead of crashing if no browser / Photos / launcher is available.
• 5-second connect/read timeouts on the update check so a slow CDN can't block the IO coroutine forever.

Internal

• FeatureLevel converted from a string-keyed data class to an enum class — typo'd device entries are now a compile error instead of a silent runtime no-spoof.
• Deduped the hasSystemFeature(String) and hasSystemFeature(String, int) hook bodies.

Docs

• README rewritten user-facing with screenshot banners (including a Google Photos navigation flow showing the unlimited-storage proof line); developer docs split into docs/INTERNALS.md.