Assuming all specs, including price, would be the same (except for display size and battery), what is your favourite screen size? You can also assume 100% screen to body ratio. You can also assume battery life too would be the same, irrespective of the size.
Although larger screen sizes are preferred for media consumption, ease of use, pocketability, etc. also have a great impact in decision making.
This poll makes no sense to me.
The size of the screen does not matter as the interface cannot be adjusted to suit your preferences.
It happens that after increasing the letter size to max and adjusting the size of the desktop, the appearance of the application diverges.
With huge screens with high pixel density, the problem increases.
Therefore, when choosing a phone, check the design before paying for the purchase, so that there is no disappointment.
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Hi guys,
As I understand on most modern android devices, the "max" wallpaper size is 960x800. That is, it is 2 screens wide, but pans a percentage of the width from side to side depending on how many home screens you have.
One thing I have been wondering for a while is if there is any way (of course preferably without root, though either way really) to allow for a full 480px wide image for every home screen you swipe through? On an evo, I suppose this would mean a 3360x800 image. A bit extreme, of course, but probably would make for some great customization effects. This functionality idea is basically stolen from the N900.
that would be cool since very screen on my phone has a different theme. tools/games/ media and whatnot
This will let you do just that....Havent tried it on the Evo but theres a comment on the Cyrket page saying it works
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.creativecore.wallpaperplus/
I'm thinking about learning to skin, mostly because it seems impossible for me to find exactly what I want to do so I have to do it myself. I can't get too crazy with live wallpapers and such though, as theres limited resources such as processing power and battery use. So my questions are:
How much processing and battery does it take to draw shapes, as opposed to displaying an image (from file)?
How much processing and battery does it take to slide images around, such as for switching screens?
Would I be using less resources if I used a small image and tiled it over the whole screen, as opposed to having a large picture?
Do images get drawn in layers? If I keep stacking images on top of each other, is it going to be a huge hog?
I don't mean exact amounts, just relative amounts on whats efficient for Android (for which I know very little of). I'm guessing it would perform like a browser would?
Whenever I read newspapers or blogs on my android phone to maximize text for comfortable size the page often becomes too wide/large to accommodate the text; I have to swipe to the end of the screen every line I read. This is not the case with just about every sense-based roms, - they all intelligently adjust the width of the screen to the size of the fonts so it all fits within the frame of the phone margins.
I do have fit-to-page enabled in my browser, but it's just not happening on every AOSP based rom.
Anybody has a solution? I generally do not like sense....
Hi,
I have a question regarding the screen resolution on our Pixel 3 XL. I want to know if we can reduce the resolution from 2960x1440 to something smaller like 1480x720 (720p) or something else close to 1080p?
I am asking this because I want to see if it will provide a boost to battery life, and frankly, most of the times we don't need the higher resolution. If this switch could be scripted/made one click, it will be pretty easy to just switch to higher resolution when needed. Of course this is just a hypothetical situation if such a setting can be found.
I have looked around and found DPI to be the closest setting. However, reducing the DPI doesn't seem to change the rendered or displayed resolution. If any of you have some insight on how to change the resolution, please share.
Thanks,
AJ
Hello,
I am visually impaired and I want to use a tablet as a phone, because everything looks bigger on a big screen.
But some apps look different on a tablet than on a smartphone.
They show more content on one screen if you use a tablet than if you use a smartphone.
If you then set large fonts and an enlarged display, elements overlap in the display.
Is it possible to use a tablet as a phone and make the app believe, that it is a smartphone when it is a tablet?
My smartphone is rootet and I have already tried some things.
I have changed ro.build.characteristics=tablet to "phone" (build.prop)
But that did not help.
Andreas
Change DPI. Lower means bigger. You can adjust that in developer settings, in the "smallest width". Play with that number until you find the good value. Keep in mind, every restart will reset that value to default.
Note that the Android's window size and the device's screen size are not the same. . For example, the area within the window that is used by an app can change if the window becomes too big to fit on the screen.
Read here:
Android: How to use "adb shell wm" to simulate other devices
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BTW:
Smartphones usually have a screen measuring between 3.5 – 4.3 inches. The screens of tablets measure between 7 – 10.5 inches, they look like a large smartphone but with additional capabilities
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Smartphones usually have a screen measuring between 3.5 – 4.3 inches. The screens of tablets measure between 7 – 10.5 inches, they look like a large smartphone but with additional capabilities
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That is right. Tablets look like a large smartphone. The screen of my tablet has three times the space of the screen of my smartphone. This could mean, that everything is three times as big as on my smartphone. But that is unfortunately not the case.
If you then set large fonts and an enlarged display, elements overlap on the display.
I would like to have a tablet, that behaves identical to a smartphone and everything on the screen looks exactly like on the smartphone, only three times as big.
The tablet knows the physical size of the screen. Otherwise it would not know the ppi-Value. Does anybody know in which file this information is?
Maybe the tablet knows the physical size of its screen ( screen size ), but that's absolutely not of any interest in your case: it's Android's window size ( viewpoint - resolution ) what matters.
You have to find the suitable combo of PPI related to resoulution ( window size ). Both values
wm size
wm density
can get set in Android's system file
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
what is a SQL database