I'm not sure if this will work or how this works but I'm wondering if there are any avenues to request a feature or modification to an app when the original developer is unresponsive to requests? Obviously this would only be for personal use and not for redistribution of the app.
App: BattStatt
Mod: I love the look and simplistic nature of this widget. My only grip is that I'm running it on an Evo 4g with a large 800x480 display and when I use the widget in a 4x1 configuration the text only takes up a small portion of this defined area. I want the text to scale up to where it fills the 4x1 space as much as possible so space isn't wasted. Can this modification be done easily by any of the developers around here? I'm not sure how this works so don't flame me lol.
Typically, the source code needs to be available to modify how it works. Is it?
All I have is the app itself as downloaded through the market. I'm not sure how to go about getting the source code.
Hmm.. this app uses "sp" units to set font size, so text should automatically scale to constant physical size.
I won't modify it for you, because I would have to create 5 different sizes, so you would choose the best for you. But you could quite easily do it by yourself using apktool. Link is in my signature.
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Or just tell me, how much bigger you want this text.
I accidentally increased my font size, making my some of my app shortcut names cut off due to the increased size. I would like to know what I did to increase it on accident, and how to decrease it.
Thanks!
EDIT: Mod - Please close this thread. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14886469
How do you know it increased? unfortunately Sense has it so that if an app name is too long it just trails off instead of going to a second line
The names use to not trail off. The font is larger than i remembered too.
This trailing off bit really bugs me...so much that I don't put shortcuts on my screen lol
Anyone can try to mod Contacts(Dialer), Touchwiz Calculator and S Planner and even Wall Paper changer to work with 240 dpi or even less dpi on Note?
I second this...
Im using 3rd party dialer, but i wish i can have those native apps in the lower density.
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I would love it !!!
danilos2k said:
I would love it !!!
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I followed your advice given on Androidiani and 240 dpi are looking lovely.
danilos2k said:
I would love it !!!
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I would like to see this, too! Would be very nice!
i would love to have automn dialer ....have a look..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19927125&postcount=6
i want this too, ive gone below 240 but 240 seems to be the sweetspot before the battery icon starts to blur. i also use 3rd party dialer i use angel dialer so i never see a problem. but it would be nice to have the native dialer work.
Does S Memo work for any of you when you use anything other than 320dpi? I get thick lines running across my notepad with anything other than 320.
edit: I just found the modded s-memo thread. Now all I need is the rest!
maybe a weird question, but why less dpi?
What changes are needed, just apps?
OpenMinded said:
maybe a weird question, but why less dpi?
What changes are needed, just apps?
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If you tell the phone that the screen has 240dpi instead of 320, then it starts drawing things smaller. For instance, 12pt fonts are used instead of 16pt, or the icons become 30x30 instead of 50x50.
As the phone uses the pixel density information to calculate how many pixels should a quarter-inch-wide icon should be, coding in a lower dpi value makes all the drawn elements smaller, giving you more room. This way, you can have smaller text and have more on our gargantuan screen.
Most apps deal with this change nicely, as there are devices out there that actually have 240dpi density. A number of apps (google market) need your pixel density to be one of the supported ones (180,240,320) and other arbitrary values break certain app updates. And some apps (mostly samsung-specific ones) have hard-coded scaling factors that break the app when you change your density setting.
All in all, decrease the density value => have everything rendered/drawn smaller => more screen real estate, the caveat being a small number of apps not supporting scaling at all.
awesome explanation, I 'hit the button' .
Thanks.
To be honest I am happy with the space and prefer the 'no hassle' approach .
So apps that do not support scaling would simply not be in fullscreen mode?
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awesome explanation, I 'hit the button' .
Thanks.
To be honest I am happy with the space and prefer the 'no hassle' approach .
So apps that do not support scaling would simply not be in fullscreen mode?
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It would make sense for the unsupported apps to simply be smaller than fullscreen, and it certainly is the case with samsung's touchwiz dialer, where it sits close to the upper left and has unused room on the right and bottom (contact list, call log and favorites tabs of the phone app scale nicely though).
On the stock launcher (touchwiz, samsung, surprising?), the dock is still at the very bottom of the screen, but there is unused/unusable space between the dock and where your app icons sit. third-party launchers (I tried adw ex) have no problem dealing with scaling.
For the s-memo app, it gets funkier, as the background drawing part of the code seems to have some weird hard-coded scaling, and when you increase your density, the memo-drawing area both shrinks (like the dialer) and also has thick black horizontal lines on it. Looks like an aliasing effect.
So it depends on how the various bits and pieces of the UI elements are coded in each app. If they coded it with multiple densities and scales in mind, it works like a charm. If they ignored it, it depends on where the reference/anchor points of UI elements are, as things can all get scaled and shrunk towards the upper left, or some things may stay at the bottom while others shrink towards the top. If the coders dropped the ball completely (s-memo), things get very ugly.
Hope this thread won't be ignored... Looking forward to some kind fella who would probably get this working
stephenjason89 said:
Hope this thread won't be ignored... Looking forward to some kind fella who would probably get this working
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Would be very, very nice!
up for this
ignored for a long time
KL7 and beyond dialer is especially dreadful at 240 dpi, since the call button is effectively hidden
I'm going to attempt to follow this tutorial myself:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863519
crysalis786 said:
I'm going to attempt to follow this tutorial myself:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863519
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Please share if you have succeeded.
Many thanks!
I prefer android apps that use the lower portion of the screen more than the top, due to how I hold the phone. Also right side is better than left.
Finding the right app is very difficult due to 9/10 apps having most buttons on top. I keep wondering why you can't just move the toolbar control down to the bottom.... seems simple enough, Maybe there's a way to hack this? It should be simple enough to move the toolbar but if there's a dropdown menu, it gets more complicated. Maybe overlay configured to mirror another part of the screen, that would repeat taps to the original location....
Resizing the whole screen is one solution. There's Touchwiz for S5, OneHanded (Galaxy Note) and One-Hand Mode Xposed Mod which are pretty good but I just want to reach higher sometimes. A super quick way to enable/disable the screen sizer might work. Is there a gesture program that responds to gestures based on length of swipe and location? Maybe auto-return to full screen after 3s of inactivity? Is there something like this that will let you move the whole screen without resizing?
If you have found any great apps with bottom toolbars, please post links. Or if there's a good thread about this
The tool bar is called an ActionBar, moving the actionbar to the bottom is virtually impossible or as Google says a No No. We don't know why. But there is a split actionbar option, where you can add actions to the bottom of the screen.
You may be able to add actions to the bottom if you completely remove the actionbar (by using a theme that has no action bar) and then coding a fake one and merging it to the lower part of the layout.
Though you can't really do this to applications that have already been made unless you have the source code.
So I suggest. Get a smaller phone? Most large phones nowadays require two hand use.
So i really like the DPI at 200, it means I can see more than 4 lines of a text message and dont need to scroll for days to get to options in most apps, but having the GW4 on dpi 200 is a mess, the tiles are just shrunk down and attempting to work in the top left quarter of the watch while sometimes elements from them(like weather) will try to centre making things overlap and ruin the visuals.
Is there any way I can have my low DPI without having janky tiles? am I just choosing bad DPI numbers with the ones I have tried and that is what is causing it? Preferably id like to be able to choose the DPI per app but I assume that isnt possible
Let me put it this way. You use android smartphones for some time, right ? At last 8 years, right ? Have ever seen in any android phone dynamically adjusted DPI per app ?
I'm not sure if it's possible to change DPI per app via ADB, but you should be able to decompile each APK and manually set the DPI in Android Studio. It could be a lot of work if you want to customize a lot of apps, but it's an option if it's important to you.
TacoDeMuerte said:
but you should be able to decompile each APK and manually set the DPI in Android Studio.
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I am not shure if it is move in the right direction. Lets say you rework app to 100 dpi BUT display will still work in 200 dpi. So the visual will be distorted.
This is not Windows where app can set display of the monitor to required resolution.
I don't know per app but you can increase or decrease all on your SW4.