--- layout: post title: "Home Assistant Companion for Android 1.5.0" description: "Today we're releasing a big update for our Android companion app including widgets, fullscreen and Android TV support." date: 2020-01-28 00:00:00 date_formatted: "January 28, 2020" author: Paulus Schoutsen author_twitter: balloob comments: true categories: Release-Notes --- Today we're releasing Home Assistant Companion for Android 1.5.0. This is a great release with some cool new features and new collaborators joining in on the fun! Big thanks in this release goes to our Android lead [@JBassett] who has been squashing a ton of bugs, added support for the status bar to adopt the application theme and fixed finding existing Home Assistant instances on the network. A cool new feature that has been added is a new home screen widget. Use it to quickly trigger your favorite scripts, scenes or any other service in Home Assistant. Thanks to [@KBerstene] for the initial implementation and [@JBassett] for polishing the configuration screen. For all you people that want to run the Home Assistant app on a tablet on the wall, good news! Thanks to [@neopilou] there is now a new option to make the app full screen. To get the most out of our apps for Android and iOS, check the [Home Assistant Companion website](https://companion.home-assistant.io/). Enjoy the new release! Don't forget to leave a rating if you like the app, it will help other users find the app.

[@KBerstene]: https://github.com/KBerstene [@JBassett]: https://github.com/JBassett [@neopilou]: https://github.com/neopilou