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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:55 PM

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Is there any way to change the dpi or font size of a particular app...

like for eg the font size on the google currents app is too big ...
and the whole feed is not readable we have to touch the feed to read the content...

so is there any way to decompile the apk and edit some values to change the dpi/font size

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Posted 20 January 2013 - 05:23 PM

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View PostvNa5h, on 20 January 2013 - 04:55 PM, said:

Is there any way to change the dpi or font size of a particular app...

like for eg the font size on the google currents app is too big ...
and the whole feed is not readable we have to touch the feed to read the content...

so is there any way to decompile the apk and edit some values to change the dpi/font size

AFAIK only Paranoid Android does that, and if you're going say that the ROM isn't updated with the latest patches by daemond, ganster and KonstaT ask zeelog to kindly update his ROM.

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Posted 20 January 2013 - 07:26 PM

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or go for pacman rom its updatated

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 04:32 AM

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No the update for pa is not possible since pa has gone aosp way...

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Posted 22 January 2013 - 05:38 PM

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Decompile the app, search carefully all .xml files for font info and you may find a way. Don't try this if you don't know how to properly compile/decompile, you could mess things badly.

You can't expect someone else to do your work and experiment. Besides every app is different and we are not the authors to tell you what is possible.
You could simply ask the author to include such option.

Edited by elrond_bs, 23 January 2013 - 04:06 AM.

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Posted 22 January 2013 - 07:56 PM

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http://www.modaco.co...pdated-2012013/

Has the latest patches available for our device, and implements that function you need easily :P

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:27 PM

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just check text height from styles.xml
but i am not sure is it styles xml,,,, where you can find the text height

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:20 AM

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finally got time to get my hands dirty...

narrowed to the xml which stores text size...
its dimens.xml...

now to figure out which textsize to edit...
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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:24 AM

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guys any idea how to change the default appdata storage...
\data\data\com.google.android.apps.currents
to
sdcard\data\com.google.android.apps.currents

coz currents stores both cache and data to internal mem...which takes a whopping 100-150mb itself

can i change some vaules to make it  store in the sdcard instead.....

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:38 AM

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View Postpeetu20, on 23 January 2013 - 05:27 PM, said:

just check text height from styles.xml
but i am not sure is it styles xml,,,, where you can find the text height

View PostvNa5h, on 27 January 2013 - 11:20 AM, said:

finally got time to get my hands dirty...

narrowed to the xml which stores text size...
its dimens.xml...

now to figure out which textsize to edit...
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just change every text_height line value to you want(set less height if you want smaller text,,

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:40 AM

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View PostvNa5h, on 27 January 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

guys any idea how to change the default appdata storage...
\data\data\com.google.android.apps.currents
to
sdcard\data\com.google.android.apps.currents

coz currents stores both cache and data to internal mem...which takes a whopping 100-150mb itself

can i change some vaules to make it  store in the sdcard instead.....
the data save dir could be set on bools.xml(if there if xml called bools.xml, not sure.
if you have problems post your framework-res and currents apk, i can maybe change the textsize and data dir location :)

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:44 AM

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heres the res/values/bools.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <bool name="abs__action_bar_embed_tabs">false</bool>
    <bool name="abs__split_action_bar_is_narrow">true</bool>
    <bool name="abs__action_bar_expanded_action_views_exclusive">true</bool>
    <bool name="abs__config_showMenuShortcutsWhenKeyboardPresent">false</bool>
    <bool name="abs__config_actionMenuItemAllCaps">true</bool>
    <bool name="abs__config_allowActionMenuItemTextWithIcon">false</bool>
    <bool name="enable_trending">true</bool>
    <bool name="enable_translate">true</bool>
    <bool name="is_magazines">false</bool>
    <bool name="crash_report_on_uncaught_exception">true</bool>
    <bool name="dump_hprof_on_uncaught_exception">false</bool>
    <bool name="beep_on_c2dm">false</bool>
    <bool name="enable_synced_files_update">true</bool>
    <bool name="enable_youtube_from_subscriptions">false</bool>
    <bool name="enable_c2dm_new_app_notification">false</bool>
    <bool name="enable_developer_options">false</bool>
    <bool name="enable_magazines_outline_mode">true</bool>
</resources>

no such value for appdata path

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 12:08 PM

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i will decompile it myself and look,,,,

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i cant see where can be the data dir changed, maybe its smali, but i cant edit smali.
have you changed the textheight already?

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 04:46 PM

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View PostvNa5h, on 27 January 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

guys any idea how to change the default appdata storage...
\data\data\com.google.android.apps.currents
to
sdcard\data\com.google.android.apps.currents

coz currents stores both cache and data to internal mem...which takes a whopping 100-150mb itself

can i change some vaules to make it  store in the sdcard instead.....


i think the best option would be to use this app
http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1410262
for appdata...

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 04:53 PM

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Just use s2e. Its handy and it will mount every partition to your sdcard.

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 05:10 PM

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View Postpeetu20, on 27 January 2013 - 04:53 PM, said:

Just use s2e. Its handy and it will mount every partition to your sdcard.

if i use s2e to move all app,dalvik,data then there would be nothing on internal mem :P...
btw i have 280mb internal mem

besides moving data to ext wouldnt be healthy for sdcard(again this can be a myth)

Edited by vNa5h, 27 January 2013 - 05:11 PM.

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View PostvNa5h, on 27 January 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

guys any idea how to change the default appdata storage...
\data\data\com.google.android.apps.currents
to
sdcard\data\com.google.android.apps.currents

coz currents stores both cache and data to internal mem...which takes a whopping 100-150mb itself

can i change some vaules to make it  store in the sdcard instead.....

found out another way to use mount -o bind in init.d...,
still couldnt find nothing to change in app

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I dont know, i have moved all data to sd with my cm10...
But play with s2e and u wont get problems with data space:)

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