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Camera App That Shoots RAW Only (and to SD Card?)

I don't know about "works well with the Note 20 Ultra" as I don't have one, but Open Camera lets you output raw only and specify the location you can save to (as my phone doesn't have an SD slot I can't confirm storage device selection, but I'd expect that to be possible). So you could give that a spin and see whether it works for you.

App that will shutdown when above a specified temperature

I have the same issue, and some different solutions to try.
1. The primary source of overheat when a phone is under me is long screen on.
2. Thus, it ought to help to just ensure there is a reasonable display timeout.
3. Except some apps, such as the game I play at the end of the day, are able to prevent sleep, and prevent display timeout.
4. FWIW my phone starts shutting apps down on serious overheat... But it waits too long....

I am a Tasker user, and will work out how to get this done. (my sense is I just need to kill a specific app on overheat)

Contacts ringtones

Yes, I agree. Was hoping somebody with samsung might help. I even wondered if different countries may have some specs disabled. When I first turned on the phone it was all in Russian and I live in Greece.
As for the sizes now, I can't think why they need to be so big. We have almost gone back to brick size. Dreading my 1st gen moto G dying on me!

Help Edit a number within group chat

What if you start with the number that has changed?

It seems odd if it's using contacts to assign to a chat but ignoring the number change, given that the actual message sending depends on the numbers. Unless of course it's just using the last N digits of the number for identification and so not spotting the change in prefix (it has to use the full number for sending, so that would be rather dim, but caller ID works that way so this is possible).

An Open Source Library for Progress Bars

Hey folks! Over the past few weeks I've been working on the next version of my open source library, RoundedProgressBar, and I'm excited to say it's finally complete. This library gives you a highly customizable progress bar that is easy to work with. You can change any of the colors, give each corner a different radius, or modify anything else related to how the progress bar is displayed. Essentially, this library gives you a great looking progress bar that's easy to customize to your app's unique theme.

Below I've attached a GIF showing just one example of how you could use this library. The GIF shows a custom image view being attached to a RoundedProgressBar to make a sleek looking icon and progress bar combo.

If you'd like to check out the library, you can find it here on Github. Feel free to take a look at the code, report issues, or contribute changes. I'm always looking for ways to improve the library. Also, if you find it to be a useful library, consider giving the repo a star, it’d be much appreciated!

If you have any questions about this project feel free to ask them in the comments below and I'll make sure to answer them. Thanks for reading!

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SCREEN and PHONE IDLE Eating Up Battery

It will be much easier to interpret these numbers if you provide a bit more context: how long since the phone was unplugged from the charger and how much of that time was the screen on for? To me 20% of usage by the screen sounds low, which suggests that you've not used the phone much and it spends most of its time on standby (which also means that you'd expect standby usage to be significant).

The screen is really the most power-hungry item in any phone, so high % of power being used by the screen is normal. If I use a 3rd party battery monitor on my phone (because the battery information in Settings on a Pixel 2 running Android 11 is frankly useless) it tells me that my screen is responsible for 67% of my power usage on this charge cycle. Though as different apps (including the manufacturer's own battery monitoring) may use different ways of calculating these things the answer can depend on which app you use.

(As for my phone's Battery settings, Google are actually worse than Apple these days at telling you things like what actually uses the battery. I think they really want you to not think about what's going on on your phone, just trust them and turn your brain off - which, given their business model, is perhaps not surprising).

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