Floating windows overlay on top of any app, displaying clocks, weather, notifications, and music controls while a full-screen HA dashboard is visible.

Floating windows overlay the Home Launcher desktop and the Browser layer alike. The launcher hosts the app grid and widgets; floating windows are the always-visible chrome on top.

This is what makes Ava visually unique. Floating windows overlay on top of any app - display a full-screen HA dashboard while still seeing clock, weather, and notifications overlaid on top.

Other apps force you to choose: dashboard or clock. With Ava, you get both.

Features:

• Always visible - overlays on any app, including full-screen browsers
• HA control - remotely toggle each window from Home Assistant
• Non-intrusive - designed to complement, not block the main interface
• Global overlay back control (0.5.4+) - auto-hiding oval back button on all fullscreen overlays

In Weather, Dream Clock, Minimal Clock, and Quick Entities, a light tap on the screen reveals a floating oval back button at the top edge. It auto-hides after a few seconds of inactivity. One tap returns you to the main dashboard or exits the current overlay.

This is especially critical for Facebook Portal, tablets, and wall-mounted panels running 24/7, where browser overlays and fullscreen layers previously trapped the user with no obvious escape path.

After Ava wakes, recognition and response text now appears like a restrained caption below the voice orb. It finds a suitable position in portrait and landscape, stays within three lines, and changes more gently. There is no large panel covering the dashboard, and the text no longer competes with the sound animation along the bottom.

The voice orb can show happy eyes for good news and different expressions for an apology or an important warning. During a long answer, the expression can change as the captions move to the next page. The eyes change during a blink while the orb color stays steady. The text is evaluated directly on the device.

An elegant analog clock floating window.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Scenes
2. Turn on Dream Clock

# Show
service: switch.turn_on
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_dream_clock_display
# Hide
service: switch.turn_off
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_dream_clock_display

A minimal digital clock floating window.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Scenes
2. Turn on Simple Clock

Enable Double Tap Toggle to double tap the bottom area to hide or show the clock, mapped to the HA entity.

# Show
service: switch.turn_on
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_simple_clock_display
# Hide
service: switch.turn_off
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_simple_clock_display

Rotating record cover displayed when playing music.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Playback
2. Turn on Home Assistant Media Controls or Music Assistant Media Controls
3. Set the HA Media Player entity ID for album art

See Music Playback for details.

Shows what you said and Ava's AI response on screen as a floating subtitle.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Interface
2. Turn on Floating Subtitle

An immersive weather UI showing real-time weather information.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Scenes
2. Turn on Weather Display
3. Set the Weather Entity (e.g., weather.home)

• Temperature
• Weather condition (sunny, cloudy, rain, etc.)
• Humidity
• Wind direction and speed
• Air quality
• Pressure

# Show
service: switch.turn_on
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_weather_display
# Hide
service: switch.turn_off
target:
 entity_id: switch.your_device_name_weather_display

Shows a beautiful reminder when you control lights by voice.

1. Go to Settings -> Interaction -> Interface
2. Turn on Light Switch Button Overlay

Customize glow and ripple colors for each wake word:

• Custom color picker
• Default green (Wake Word 1) / blue (Wake Word 2)
• 7 rainbow presets (red through purple)

A Stream Deck style entity quick control panel. See Quick Entity for details.

A wall-mounted tablet is a Home Assistant dashboard, but it is also an Android device. Checking a delivery, replying to a message, opening a calculator, watching a camera, scanning a QR code — these should not bury the dashboard underneath.

0.7.3 lets selected apps open in a draggable, resizable floating window instead of fullscreen. The dashboard keeps refreshing underneath, the window floats on top, and neither gets in the other's way.

This is not Android's native freeform multi-window. Native freeform is gated by system version, vendor customization, and desktop-mode toggles — most tablets simply do not support it or ship with a broken implementation. Imagine a user named Alex who tried every "freeform window" app on the Play Store: none worked on his white-label wall tablet. Ava Pro solves this differently.

On Android 10+, Ava creates an independent virtual display, mirrors the target app's video with hardware-decoded H.264 straight onto a floating TextureView, and forwards touch events back verbatim over a control channel. To the target app it is just a normal screen; to the user it is a real window floating over the dashboard.

On Android 7–9, where virtual displays are unavailable, Ava falls back to the system's native freeform windowing mode — the same proven technique used by open-source Taskbar-style launchers, ported to reuse Ava's Shizuku/root shell.

• Drag the title bar to move the window
• Drag the bottom-right corner to resize
• Window position and size are remembered for next time
• One window at a time — globally unique, never stacks

1. In the Minimal Launcher app picker, tag an app with the window icon
2. The next time that app is launched, it opens in a floating window

Path: Ava Settings → Service features → Minimal Launcher → App picker

1. Check overlay permission
2. Enable the specific floating window in settings
3. Try restarting service
4. Check if another overlay is blocking

1. Set the Weather Entity in settings (e.g., weather.home)
2. Check if the entity exists in Home Assistant
3. Check network connection

Only one clock should be enabled at a time. Disable one if both are showing.

1. Confirm Shizuku is running (ADB mode) or root is granted
2. Confirm Android 7.0 or newer
3. On Android 7–9, a one-time reboot may be needed after first enable
4. If the virtual display can't come up (some SELinux-enforcing devices), Ava falls back to freeform or fullscreen automatically

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