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DPI on per-app basis

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a way to set the dpi per-app? I like hdpi (240) for my launcher and keyboard but nothing else. Can this be done or is Android not resolution independent like Mac OS?
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dragon_76 said:
Is ther
a way to set the dpi per-app? I like hdpi (240) for my launcher and keyboard but nothing else. Can this be done or is Android not resolution independent like Mac OS?
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It doesn't really work that way, sorry. The DPI set in build.prop is system-wide, it's up to the application developers to make their apps density (and screen size) independent.

I found that adw.ex has a dpi hack that makes it tablet friendly and smart keyboard pro has a setting for key size. These two apps accomplish what I was after.
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Stock DPI

Since I won't get to mess with my S3 until Monday, just curious... what's everyone think about stock DPI (306, if I remember right)? On my Note I found 240 to be perfect over the stock 320.
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It's at 320 stock I haven't changed it yet.
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Just changed it to 240 and TouchWiz crashed repeatedly. I had to double tap hope and have SVoice launch the play store and download apex. With apex it looked great, like my note did. So I then changed it to 280 and touchwiz didn't crash but looked jacked up I just returned to stock. Hope this helps.
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I thought about lowering dpi but I like the way it looks now. Maybe when I get tired of it ill change it lol
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Are you modifying the build.prop directly, or do you have an app you use? Looking for recommendations...

Thanks for the feedback. On my Note (rooted), I used ROM Toolbox to adjust DPI... worked perfectly.
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alacrify said:
Are you modifying the build.prop directly, or do you have an app you use? Looking for recommendations...
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I use ROM Toolbox Pro.
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I recommend this....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpi
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The dialer, s voice, notification screen and some other elements are not friendly to lower DPI. I changed the dpi to 240 and had to change it back because it didn't look right.
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Didn't want to post this in the dev topic, so figured I'd bring it back here... anyone know of any plans to dev for multi DPI? There was quite a bit of it for the Note... granted the screen is .5" bigger. Just wondering because I've had mine at 280 and thought that was about right, but changed it back to 320 because of some app incompatibilities.

Gmail small font size....can old version be installed on 4.2

The new version of Gmail has small font size with no way to increase it. Can an old version of Gmail be installed on 4.2? If so, how?
Thanks.
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You can increase the font by going to system settings and then click display then select the size. Easy
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CJHolderUK said:
You can increase the font by going to system settings and then click display then select the size. Easy
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This increases font size system wide and does not work well with other apps or widgets. The old gmail app allowed the font to be changed within the app.
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Installing the old 4.1.2 version does not work. It crashes instantly. Time to ditch the Gmail app I guess.
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ncguy68 said:
Installing the old 4.1.2 version does not work. It crashes instantly. Time to ditch the Gmail app I guess.
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Have you ever tried K9 Mail? The font sizes are fully customizable, and they have new test builds that are finally integrating threaded message view. Plus I love the dark theme!

In 4.2, you can use pinch to zoom in order to change the font size when reading a message. Is that what you were wanting?

rickh57 said:
In 4.2, you can use pinch to zoom in order to change the font size when reading a message. Is that what you were wanting?
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Pinch and zoom causes the text to go off screen and requires constant pan and scan to read. I really don't see the need for pinch and zoom for text....pictures maybe.
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yogi2010 said:
Have you ever tried K9 Mail? The font sizes are fully customizable, and they have new test builds that are finally integrating threaded message view. Plus I love the dark theme!
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Thanks. I will give K9 a try.
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ncguy68 said:
Thanks. I will give K9 a try.
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cool, maybe you'll like it. i find it to be very visually pleasing, once you get it all customized to your liking. the market version might not have the threaded message view in it yet, but the test builds do:
https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/wiki/TestingK9
one thing that sometimes kept me from using it before was that every message was displayed separately, even if from the same thread! but now that is changing. also the messages are pushed to your device just as fast as with the native Gmail app.

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In 4.2, you can use pinch to zoom in order to change the font size when reading a message. Is that what you were wanting?
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That's interesting, pinch to zoom does nothing when I try it in Gmail 4.2. :-/
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scottjb said:
That's interesting, pinch to zoom does nothing when I try it in Gmail 4.2. :-/
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You have to go to settings/general settings and enable auto fit messages.
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No surprise on Gmail. Going from Yahoo Mail to Gmail on the PC I couldn't believe that font changes were limited to a few sizes with one being too small and one too big for my tastes.
Lucky for me I'm happy with changing the system font size on my N7.
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Pinch zoom and then double tap to force it to wrap
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You have to go to settings/general settings and enable auto fit messages.
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Thank you!
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i happened to try a Gmail 4.0.5 apk, and it installed easily as a data app, just by clicking 'install'! it has the old font size options and may be worth a try. i will probbly try using it, since i like it better than Gmail 4.2!

ok, i also got 4.1.2 to work, it seems maybe they work if simply installed as a data app. here is the apk i have running on my N7:

yogi2010 said:
ok, i also got 4.1.2 to work, it seems maybe they work if simply installed as a data app. here is the apk i have running on my N7:
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Thanks... this is exactly what I was looking for.
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ncguy68 said:
Thanks... this is exactly what I was looking for.
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You're welcome, i hope it installs and works well for you

[Q] Does the odd DPI bother you?

As you know, the DPI on the Nexus 7 is 213, which is somewhat non-standard. This makes all the icons appear a bit blurry, especially noticeable on the phablet notification bar. I run mine on 240, which looks much better.
Have you ever noticed this, and does it bother you at all?

Paranoid Android @ 160dpi.

I honestly never noticed that as something odd, I just thought it was designed like that. App icons are a bit blurry, I have noticed that, but not all of them. Stock apps and some other too have very nice, crisp icons (Firefox for example, I won't check all of them)
I'm running stock ROM with stock DPI and I like it a lot. I don't care for tablet modes or anything, nexus 7 feels like a bigger version of phone android, which suits me a lot, since I use it in portrait mostly.
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IAmNice said:
Yes thats why I run tablet mode 180 dpi
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But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.

frobthebuilder said:
As you know, the DPI on the Nexus 7 is 213, which is somewhat non-standard. This makes all the icons appear a bit blurry, especially noticeable on the phablet notification bar. I run mine on 240, which looks much better.
Have you ever noticed this, and does it bother you at all?
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Within android on certain devices the different ui modes were triggered by the DPI changes. 320= phone 213= phablet and 160 was full tablet mode. Since Google has changed to the one mode to rule them all mentality I don't think it matters for much other then possible play store incompatibilities for the off standard DPI settings.
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cjsspape said:
Within android on certain devices the different ui modes were triggered by the DPI changes. 320= phone 213= phablet and 160 was full tablet mode. Since Google has changed to the one mode to rule them all mentality I don't think it matters for much other then possible play store incompatibilities for the off standard DPI settings.
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Well, the main thing is the icons. They were made with the standard DPIs in mind, and they just scale to match the others, which makes them look worse.

frobthebuilder said:
Well, the main thing is the icons. They were made with the standard DPIs in mind, and they just scale to match the others, which makes them look worse.
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Yea that's true. I generally stick with 160 for everything. Even on my s3 I had it. It was a Lil small but manageable for me. I don't even see why some devices use 320 at all haha that should probably be an accessibility setting.
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cjsspape said:
Yea that's true. I generally stick with 160 for everything. Even on my s3 I had it. It was a Lil small but manageable for me. I don't even see why some devices use 320 at all haha that should probably be an accessibility setting.
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Well, newer devices have extremely dense displays, so they have to up the dpi just to keep everything the same size.

frobthebuilder said:
But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.
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I use 180 as well, i just like the size of everything at 180, and my icons aren't blurry or anything..
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davisac said:
Paranoid Android @ 160dpi.
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Amen brother. Me too. PA is the canines clusters.
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damagedgoods said:
Amen brother. Me too. PA is the canines clusters.
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I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.

frobthebuilder said:
But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.
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And 120 and 320. But yes, I find the DPI number odd. But I find no actual problem with it.

No. 10 cahrs

Paranoid Android 2.54 and i have no worry about that..in fact all my apps i have set to diffent dpi.
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frobthebuilder said:
I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.
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I am still on 2.54 which i found the best and toyaly bug free and every app can be set from 160-360 dpi
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Mmmmm ..... I will try that 240 DPI value

Mine always runs at 160, I feel the default looks like a vision impaired mode. Galaxy Nexus is always set at 240.

frobthebuilder said:
I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.
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I wish paranoid stuck with the cyanogenmod base instead of vanilla aosp as well. The ROM was much better in 4.1.2 with cm. The 4.2 aosp version just feels clunky and less stable. CM fixed a lot of this Google broke in 4.2 and there settings organization is much better than paranoids at the moment. Paranoid is missing a lot of settings as well too.
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213 is actually tvdpi...lol.
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213 seems to be the magic number for nexus 7 flavour android, not tablet mode, but not phone mode either. 240 is phone DPI so the notification drawer fills the screen and there's no settings pull son on the right, it has then icon in the notification drawer or you can do the two finger pull down. Also on 240 you can't have multi-user as it thinks it is a phone and displays the appropriate lockscreen without the ability to change user.
I like 240 but the multi-user problem is a deal breaker.
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Anything like Go Locker?

Is there other apps like it? Widgetlocker is so old and outdated that the stock lockscreen works better then it. I just mainly want something I can customize and use as a lock screen.

MagicLocker.
How about MagicLocker? It's pretty easy to use and works well. I tried Go Locker, Stock, even Widgetlocker, but I always come back to ML. I use it on my S3 & Nexus 7. Very happy

Play store pulls a not compatible with this version, I'll search for the apk.
The version i got is rather laggy..
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Eagle1337 said:
Play store pulls a not compatible with this version, I'll search for the apk.
The version i got is rather laggy..
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Have you changed your DPI? All of the apps mentioned in this thread show as compatible when I check the Play Store.
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Eagle1337 said:
Is there other apps like it? Widgetlocker is so old and outdated that the stock lockscreen works better then it. I just mainly want something I can customize and use as a lock screen.
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Actually, widgetlocker gave me a very nice, jelly bean lock screen back when I was on stock. It has been updated. You just need to remove those gross froyo sliders
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najaboy said:
Have you changed your DPI? All of the apps mentioned in this thread show as compatible when I check the Play Store.
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180 dpi, with the play store set to 213 dpi in jellybeer.
Censura_Umbra said:
Actually, widgetlocker gave me a very nice, jelly bean lock screen back when I was on stock. It has been updated. You just need to remove those gross froyo sliders
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It doesn't rotate nicely like the stock launcher is another thing that always bugs me..