09/10/2017
ANDROID TOPIC
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Hello my fellow geeks...once again am back with another topic about Android. As i promised that everyday i will be talking about everything you need to know about your Android...And am pretty sure am doing it well.
Well,our topic of today is something not familiar with the majority of our members, it's purposely designed for developers but its mostly beneficial to geeks and since am here,everybody will become an Android geek in this group.
Today we're talking about the "DEVELOPER OPTIONS MENU"
Hey...Don't ask what it means,just keep reading.
WHAT IS DEVELOPER OPIONS MENU?
The Developer Options menu in Android is a hidden menu with a variety of advanced options. These options are intended for developers, but many of them will be interesting to geeks. Now you understand what it means,let's go straight to what it does but before we go further,let's figure out howhow to enable options menu in setting. Hey..you’ll have to perform a secret handshake to enable the Developer Options menu in the Settings screen, as it’s hidden from Android users by default. Follow the simple steps to quickly enable Developer Options.
Go to phones menu,select settings,select about phone then keep taping on Build number until u can see something saying,"YOU ARE NOW A DEVELOPER"
Go back to your setting menu, you'll find a tab saying Developer options.
Click on it and slide the switch on top of the screen to turn it on. Clap for yourself as u are now a developer.
WHAT CAN I DO WITH DEVELOPER OPTIONS?
Well u can do many things under developer options menu as i listed below:
Enable USB Debugging
“USB debugging” sounds like an option only an Android developer would need, but it’s probably the most widely used hidden option in Android. USB debugging allows applications on your computer to interface with your Android phone over the USB connection.
This is required for a variety of advanced tricks, including rooting an Android phone, unlocking it, installing a custom ROM, or even using a desktop program that captures screenshots of your Android device’s screen. You can also use ADB ( Android Debugging Bridge) commands to push and pull files between your device and your computer or create and restore complete local backups of your Android device without rooting.
USB debugging can be a security concern, as it gives computers you plug your device into access to your phone. You could plug your device into a malicious USB charging port, which would try to compromise you. That’s why Android forces you to agree to a prompt every time you plug your device into a new computer with USB debugging enabled.
Set a Desktop Backup Password
If you use the above ADB trick to create local backups of your Android device over USB, you can protect them with a password with the Set a desktop backup password option here. This password encrypts your backups to secure them, so you won’t be able to access them if you forget the password.
Disable or Speed Up Animations
When you move between apps and screens in Android, you’re spending some of that time looking at animations and waiting for them to go away. You can disable these animations entirely by changing the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale options here. If you like animations but just wish they were faster, you can speed them up.
On a fast phone or tablet, this can make switching between apps nearly instant. If you thought your Android phone was speedy before, just try disabling animations and you’ll be surprised how much faster it perfoms.
Force-Enable FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) For OpenGL Games
If you have a high-end phone or tablet with great graphics performance and you play 3D games on it, there’s a way to make those games look even better. Just go to the Developer Options screen and enable the Force 4x MSAA option.
This will force Android to use 4x multisample anti-aliasing in OpenGL ES 2.0 games and other apps. This requires more graphics power and will probably drain your battery a bit faster, but it will improve image quality in some games. This is a bit like force-enabling antialiasing using the NVIDIA Control Panel on a Windows gaming PC.
Execute all background apps and its cached data
If you use a task killer, you’re just slowing down your system by throwing out cached data and forcing Android to load apps from system storage whenever you open them again.
Don’t believe me? Enable the Don’t keep activities option on the Developer options screen and Android will force-close every app you use as soon as you exit it. Enable this app and use your phone normally for a few minutes — you’ll see just how harmful throwing out all that cached data is and how much it will slow down your phone.
Don’t actually use this option unless you want to see how bad it is! It will make your phone perform much more slowly — there’s a reason Google has hidden these options away from average users who might accidentally change them.
Fake Your GPS Location
The Allow mock locations option allows you to set fake GPS locations, tricking Android into thinking you’re at a location where you actually aren’t. Use this option along with an app like Fake GPS location and you can trick your Android device and the apps running on it into thinking you’re at locations where you actually aren’t. How would this be useful? Well, you could fake a GPS check-in at a location without actually going there or confuse your friends in a location-tracking app by seemingly teleporting around the world.
Stay Awake While Charging
You can use Android’s Daydream Mode to display certain apps while charging your device. If you want to force Android to display a standard Android app that hasn’t been designed for Daydream Mode, you can enable the Stay awake option here. Android will keep your device’s screen on while charging and won’t turn it off.
It’s like Daydream Mode, but can support any app and allows users to interact with them.
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Show Always-On-Top CPU Usage
You can view CPU usage data by toggling the Show CPU usage option to On. This information will appear on top of whatever app you’re using. If you’re a Linux user, the three numbers on top probably look familiar — they represent the system load average. From left to right, the numbers represent your system load over the last one, five, and fifteen minutes.
This isn’t the kind of thing you’d want enabled most of the time, but it can save you from having to install third-party floating CPU apps if you want to see CPU usage information for some reason.
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Most of the other options here will only be useful to developers debugging their Android apps. You shouldn’t start changing options you don’t understand.
If you want to undo any of these changes, you can quickly erase all your custom options by sliding the switch at the top of the screen.
Questions are highly welcomed.
