This app makes the Pixel 11’s HiLight feature actually useful

这款应用让 Pixel 11 的 HiLight 功能真正变得实用

Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you’re interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one of five colors!

Google Pixel 11 Pro 上全新的 HiLight 通知 LED 灯几乎毫无用处。在出厂默认设置下，它仅能在两种情况下亮起：一是手机正面朝下且你正在与 Gemini 交互时，二是收到来自收藏联系人的来电时。即便如此，它也只能显示五种颜色中的一种！

This is a massive wasted opportunity for a feature that used to be so beloved on older Android phones, so developers have wasted no time doing what Google won’t.

对于曾经在老款安卓手机上备受喜爱的一项功能来说，这简直是巨大的资源浪费。因此，开发者们迅速行动起来，做了 Google 不愿做的事情。

X user Dhananjay_Tech developed a new app called HiLight Studio, which lets you do practically anything you want with the HiLight LED array. Did you receive a new Slack notification that mentions a certain word? Make HiLight pulse in a rainbow array. Get a new text? Make HiLight spin in a wave of green. You can even control things like timing per cycle, brightness, intensity, and saturation.

X 用户 Dhananjay_Tech 开发了一款名为 HiLight Studio 的新应用，让你几乎可以随心所欲地控制 HiLight LED 灯阵。收到包含特定关键词的 Slack 通知？让 HiLight 闪烁出彩虹般的阵列。收到新短信？让 HiLight 旋转出绿色的波浪。你甚至可以控制每个周期的时长、亮度、强度和饱和度等参数。

Unlike the official feature from Google, you can select any color you want through eight preselected colors, or a classic color slider. HiLight Studio even lets you import and export presets, so you can share them with your friends.

与 Google 的官方功能不同，你可以通过八种预选颜色或经典的颜色滑块选择任何你想要的颜色。HiLight Studio 甚至支持导入和导出预设，方便你与朋友分享。

The app isn’t on the Play Store quite yet, so you’ll have to grab it from GitHub and sideload a couple of apps to make it work. Running it requires unlocking developer settings and tweaking a couple things on your phone. It’s not as easy as a regular app, but if you’re willing and comfortable, it’s worth it. I know I’m going to be using the hell out of this.

该应用目前尚未上架 Play Store，因此你需要从 GitHub 获取它，并通过侧载（sideload）方式安装相关应用才能使用。运行它需要解锁开发者选项并对手机进行一些调整。虽然这不像普通应用那样简单，但如果你愿意折腾且操作熟练，它是非常值得的。我知道我一定会充分利用这个功能。