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XDA android app text size

Does anyone find that the text size on this app too small even on the Streak screen?
Its there a way of zooming into the text or just making the text larger as sometimes it is tiny even on here.
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Thats odd that they don't have a text size option in the settings.
What rom are you on?
See if the app "Spare Parts" is on your phone, if not enable engineering mode (in the wiki, and a thread in the forum for engineering mode on froyo) and open up spare parts.
In there theres an option to increase the Font size, but its system wide, not just specific to xda app
If you have trouble enabling engineering mode, some guy put spare parts on the market and added ads (making money off something he didn't create...) you can grab it from there as well.
Good Luck

I have spare parts on this phone Dj Steves 1.51 rom and have put text to largest but screen text in this app is still tiny
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I spoke yesterday with the Tapatalk coder and he said that it's being implemented and it's in the next release.

That will be great as its daft to have such a big screen with tiny text
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Bigger font or icons?

Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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jthornton71707 said:
Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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that's because the nexus s has a lower resolution.

So its not possible? There is no hack or market app or anything? ??
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Unfortunately, this is an example of Android fragmentation.
When iPhone 4 jumped from HVGA to Retina, it was easy- you just make icons twice as big.
On Android, you have HVGA, WVGA, QVGA, qHD....etc. Icons won't re-size to look bigger on a qHD screen.

You can use Desktop Visualizer to make the buttons look bigger. Basically change then into small widgets.

can try change density in system\build.prop

If you are rooted you can try changing the system font to a custom font that is easier to read. The easiest way to do this is to look for an app on the market called font installer.

jthornton71707 said:
Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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I bought ADW Launcer EX - it lets me make the icons and fonts as big as I want. Gives it more of a Captivate Touchwiz look, but fills the spaces better - and a lot more options then the stock launcher.
The free version doesn't have this - but the paid version is worth the $3

moneyrain said:
can try change density in system\build.prop
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or lcddensity on the market

[Q] Does xoom upscale froyo apps

Hi folks,
I am looking to buy xoom but as per my preception , all non-optimized apps will look small in xoom and honeycomb won't upscale it to match screen size?
Is it the fact or is there any settings which could enable upscaling ?
Thanks in advance for your input
-Sunny

Download the app called Spare Parts from the app store and switch the computability mode in the settings.

Also to answer your original question, most apps scale for the zoom, I find that very few actually don't scale. Of course this is in mg own experience so it depends on what u are using.
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Apps reflow depending on the screen size where it's displayed. Depending on the app that will happen different because of the way the devloper created the application.

Font size

The default font size is too small for comfortable reading. I'm stock rooted and I've left the LCD density at 213, the default. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the LCD density which makes the keyboard too large?
Thanks
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jhford said:
The default font size is too small for comfortable reading. I'm stock rooted and I've left the LCD density at 213, the default. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the LCD density which makes the keyboard too large?
Thanks
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Settings > Display > Font Size
Is this what you're looking for?

comminus said:
Settings > Display > Font Size
Is this what you're looking for?
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I've tried that in the past and didn't think it was very effective.
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There are a few apps in the market to change font size. They work well, the main reason i sometimes don't use them to increase font size is there will be things here and there that don't fit in the space allowed, if you know what i mean. But it is sort of mainly a cosmetic issue. Check the market, there is a paid font size app and a free one.

DPI changer

Hallo guys i need a tool to change the DPI on my S7ede G935F official nugat firmware fully rooted
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You can do that in Developer options - Minimum width.

Hid3rs said:
You can do that in Developer options - Minimum width.
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Thank you, my tiny setting in display suddenly not working. Kept using adb shell wm density since then. I got big font changing from performance on/off.

What is the best dpi you advise me with i like the screen icon to b small and font too
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Zeekone said:
What is the best dpi you advise me with i like the screen icon to b small and font too
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I find the preset one to be good enough for me (i like everything small too)
Go to settings > display > screen zoom and font
pull down the sliders on both screen zoom and font size to the bottom and press apply