WinIsland-X
# WinIsland-X
**The Next-Generation Dynamic Island Experience for Windows**
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[✨ Features](#-features) • [🚀 Getting Started](#-getting-started) • [🧩 Plugin System](#-plugin-system) • [🛠 Development](#-development) • [📜 License](#-license)
📖 Overview
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This project is a highly enhanced secondary development based on the original WinIsland. Special thanks to Eatgrapes for the foundational work.
WinIsland-X is a high-performance, visually stunning, and fully extensible implementation of the “Dynamic Island” for Windows. Built from the ground up with Rust and Skia, it combines fluid physics-based animations with deep system integration to provide a premium desktop experience.
✨ Features
🎨 Visual Excellence
- Enhanced Acrylic & Mica: Authentically rendered frosted glass with customizable noise grain and soft outer glows.
- Liquid Glass: Dynamic SkSL shaders that generate organic, flowing backgrounds.
- Fluid Physics: natural movement powered by a high-fidelity Mass-Spring-Damper physics engine.
- Native Color Picker: Full control over your theme with the Windows system color dialog.
🎵 Media & Integration
- SMTC Integration: Seamlessly control and monitor music from Spotify, NetEase, Web Browsers, and more.
- Real-time Spectrum: A highly responsive 6-band audio visualizer.
- Dynamic Progress Bars: Smooth progress tracking with automatic color extraction from album art.
- Smart Adaptive Borders: Borders that dynamically adjust weight based on screen content.
⚡ Performance & Extensions
- Real-time Monitoring: Smooth, de-jittered FPS counter and GPU rendering status.
- Plugin Architecture: A robust DLL-based plugin system. Inject custom logic, widgets, or system monitors with ease.
- Low Footprint: Engineered in Rust for near-zero idle CPU usage and minimal memory impact.
🧩 Plugin System
WinIsland-X is designed to be a platform. With our DLL Plugin System, you can:
- 📡 Display Custom Info: Show weather, CPU usage, or network speeds in the island.
- ⌨️ Control Actions: Request the island to expand or collapse programmatically.
- ⚙️ Custom Configuration: Provide your own native settings UI.
Explore the Sample Plugin to start building today.
🚀 Getting Started
Installation
- Download the latest release from the Releases Page.
- Extract the archive.
- Run
WinIsland-X.exe.
Build from Source
Ensure you have the latest Rust stable and CMake installed.
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/fttawa/WinIsland-X.git
cd WinIsland-X
# Build the release binary
cargo build --release
# The executable will be in target/release/
🔌 Documentation
Detailed guides for users and developers:
- 📘 User Guide
- 🛠 Development Guide - Learn how to build plugins and understand the core architecture.
- 🌐 Web Documentation
🤝 Contributing
We welcome all kinds of contributions!
- 🐛 Report Bugs: Open an issue if something isn’t working.
- 💡 Suggest Features: We’d love to hear your ideas.
- 👩💻 Code: PRs are always appreciated.
📜 License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.