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Dashboard Studio 1.14.1: Android app, phone menu button, install fix

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- Android app (android/, built with build.sh): signs in to Home Assistant once, opens Dashboard Studio full screen, renews the ingress session; downloadable from Install as an app
- Phone dashboards: a round menu button brings back the top bar with Edit, Kiosk and Install as an app
- Install as an app explains what works per device (Android app, https for browser install, iPhone limits)
- Fixed: browser install failed because the manifest was fetched without the Home Assistant sign-in

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Turn on **Designed for phones** under **Grid** in the dashboard settings. The dashboard switches to a 4-column layout that you design at phone width, so what you see while editing is what the phone shows. Existing widgets are converted: small tiles become half width, larger cards full width, and nothing overlaps. Turning it off converts back to 12 columns.
On a phone, such a dashboard fills the whole screen, without the top bar with the dashboard picker and **Edit**. To bring the bar back, touch and hold an empty spot for a moment; it hides again after 10 seconds. On a computer, a phone dashboard shows as a phone-width column. Dashboards that aren't designed for phones keep reflowing into two columns on phones, with the top bar. With the phone on its side, a phone dashboard shows two columns of its layout next to each other.
On a phone, such a dashboard fills the whole screen, without the top bar with the dashboard picker and **Edit**. To bring the bar back, tap the round **⋯** button in the top right corner (or touch and hold an empty spot); it hides again after 15 seconds or when you tap **⋯** again. On a computer, a phone dashboard shows as a phone-width column. Dashboards that aren't designed for phones keep reflowing into two columns on phones, with the top bar. With the phone on its side, a phone dashboard shows two columns of its layout next to each other.
### On phones
- **Install as an app:** **⋯ → Install as an app…** explains how. Home Assistant's own page can't be installed, so open Dashboard Studio in its own tab first (the dialog has a button for it). Installed, it opens full screen with its own icon and the dashboard's colors in the status bar. Dashboard Studio keeps Home Assistant's sign-in fresh in the background while it's open, using the login Home Assistant saved in that browser (with *Keep me logged in*). If it was closed for a long time and shows an error, open Home Assistant once.
- **Shortcuts:** tick **Shortcut on the app icon** in the settings of a button, tile, light, thermostat or garage card. On Android, long-press the installed app's icon to run it straight away (up to four shortcuts; iPhones don't support this).
- **Install as an app:** tap the phone button in the top bar (or **⋯ → Install as an app…** in edit mode). What it offers depends on the phone:
- **Android:** the Dashboard Studio app. Tap **Download the app**, open the downloaded file and allow installing apps from that source when Android asks (once). Then come back and tap **Open in the app**, or open the app and enter the address you use for Home Assistant. Sign in to Home Assistant once in the app; after that it opens straight on Dashboard Studio, full screen with its own icon and the dashboard's colors in the status bar, and keeps you signed in. Kiosk mode keeps the screen on and hides Android's bars. To connect to another Home Assistant, choose **Install as an app → Change address** in the app. The app finds Dashboard Studio by itself if you sign in as an administrator; other people can tap **Open in the app** on their phone instead.
- **From the browser** (Android and computers): the browser can also install Dashboard Studio as a web app, but only when Home Assistant is opened over **https** (for example Home Assistant Cloud or your own certificate). Home Assistant's own page can't be installed, so open Dashboard Studio in its own tab first (the dialog has a button for it).
- **iPhone and iPad:** apps on the home screen get their own storage there, without Home Assistant's sign-in, so they can't open an app that runs inside Home Assistant. Use Dashboard Studio from the sidebar in the Home Assistant app.
- **Shortcuts:** tick **Shortcut on the app icon** in the settings of a button, tile, light, thermostat or garage card. When Dashboard Studio is installed from the browser on Android, long-press its icon to run one straight away (up to four shortcuts; the Android app and iPhones don't support this).
- **Offline:** each device keeps the last known states of its dashboard. When the connection drops, the dashboard keeps showing them with a small note saying from when, and catches up when it reconnects.
- **Swipe** left or right over the dashboard to go to the next or previous tab (not over cards that swipe or scroll themselves).
- **Pull down** at the top of the dashboard to reload every state.