I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace and I am running CM 9.1 by Wayland_Ace.
Being an Indian user, proper support for Devanagari scripts is a must. Since this made by using Android 4.0 CM stock libraries, even though fonts are displayed properly, they are not rendered properly.
Even though stock browser and webview support them correctly, Whatsapp or any other does not support them properly. I read on the net saying things like replace fonts and missing libharfbuzz.so(the open source libs Samsung uses to display fonts and render them correctly from Stock Samsung Android 2.3+).
So is there any possible way to get this fix?
Its bad luck that I am posting this question too late and I do not think great developers like Mardon would be doing or caring for my poor Ace!
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Hi, is there any chance to have a default android launcher and homescreen and actually all plain android system without these samsungs rubbish, what I mean - is any other similar android device on market which have plain android software and maybe we can just port (copy with or without modification) them into our device ?
Any advice ? which device is the closest to SGS ?
I know there is a few 3rd party launchers around but I wish to start to mod my phone from really basics, second thing samsung tWlauncher and other samsung apps are really poor. I am really beginner with android but if there is full SDK from google maybe we can just compile a new versions of launcher and any other components ?
Not at the moment but my guess is that when samsung gives us froyo (sometime in august) a vanilla version will be along in no time
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/skype-for-android-now-support-video-calls-works-over-wifi-and-3g/
Not working on the transformer or the gtablet yet. But hopefully we'll get a working app soon either from microsoft or from the dev community.
I tried a patched version that took out the restriction. It force closes when trying to accept a call and enable video, but the settings and buttons show up...
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Can some one upload the APK when they get the new video skype so we can try this on the gtablet.
Here's the issue, I think...
The support for video chat requires Gingerbread. If I understand correctly, this is because GB finally introduced a standard API to access the front camera.
Until Gingerbread did this, all apps that accessed the camera needed their own drivers to do so (there was no standard camera driver to access back then, which is why apps needed to have built in support for specific devices).
Skype is using this to their advantage by releasing an app that doesn't require much code change to support device almost any device (why they are only supporting specific devices at a time is mostly political AFAIK).
But here's the problem- There is no official Gingerbread for our hardware! All the GB roms we have are hacked together with peices of code with missing native hardware drivers since they don't exist! That means, I would guess, the new Gingerbread camera API is USELESS BECAUSE GINGERBREAD LACKS THE NATIVE HARDWARE SUPPORT!
Yes, this is awfully depressing. But without a real Official Gingerbread rom, unless Skype starts offering Froyo camera support (unlikely since they would go back to the old problem of suporting each camera hardware individually), this is just not going to happen.
Maybe if the rumors of official Honeycomb drivers turn out to be true, and Skype eventually supports video with HC (another *IF*), then maybe. But that's a long way off.
Very depressing- I was very excited about this working until I came to this realization.
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How's that? Looks like the correct thread to me.
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How's that? Looks like the correct thread to me.
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I meant myself. I put a post here and then realized it was meant for elsewhere. Multiple windows openned.
Here's the apk for the new released skype vid app.
Hi,
Request To All The Dev Working On Ideos X6
Can You Let me Know If There Is Any Possibility OF Having Wifi Direct Feature On Our Phone
more here:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/03/samsung-galaxy-s-first-smartphone-to-be-wi-fi-direct-certified/
It Will be Better than Bluetooth For Big File Transfers
there are only two devices in the market with this feature atm. lg optimus black & sgs2. sgs 1 don't have it..
i have sgs2, but not other phone to use wifi direct with it..
hope we can have it too.. but will have to wait till official or a custom ics rom as base for a easy porting.. as current android library don't support it.. it is coded on the above devices as a result of open souce android license b/w these omes... and also they have native 3g video calling feature and we don't have it in short they modify it desirely ( ui + system library )..
currently it would not be possibly to port whole layer of code as its very difficult as it would be embedded in ics it eould easy then just to port wifi port thing,atm no one can say about its dependencies on other files
ics adding wifi direct feature-
android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/10/android-40-platform-and-updated-sdk.html?m=1
also this depends on hardware which i'm not sure if one used in our is really supported...(still searchin' or that )
It may seem a stupid question but, since the news that Samsung won't be releasing ICS for the SGS I've been pondering my alternatives.
I would imagine a port of Nexus S ICS would work on the SGS' given their similar hardware specs but, of course, you would lose TW; Samsung's reason for not developing ICS for the SGS as there is not enough ROM for ICS + TW
I read on another thread that video-calling was not part of the standard Android build and was something that Samsung added. I myself originally bought an ICS because it was the only Android phone with a Bluetooth SAP stack, which I need to support Bluetooth integration with my car.
I have used video-calling and use BT SAP every day so would I be able to add these to a standard ICS build or are they integrated into TW? Back to my original question what else is built into TW?
Touchwiz is the layout of the original samsung galaxy s rom+some unique apps.The problem is in device maybe small amount of RAM and ROM.The Samsung would update to ics but only with touchwiz,like samsung galaxy s II
Hey guys,
As some of you may know, Android Oreo gave us the choice to use Google's Skia graphics engine (still using an OpenGL backend) to render the UI. It's hidden inside Developer options, and it doesn't stick after reboots. This little Magisk module aims to solve that, by systemless-ly patching /system/build.prop - adding the line debug.hwui.renderer=skiagl.
Those of you who have used Android Pie have probably (or certainly) noticed the UI looked different between Oreo and Pie, as far as font/text rendering is concerned. (I personally think text looks better on Pie.) That's due to SkiaGL being chosen as the default renderer on Pie (XDA's own Mishaal Rahman wrote about that, read his article here).
This module should work on any Android device running Oreo or higher. As I wrote above, Pie already uses SkiaGL by default so there's no need to flash the module if your device runs said version - unless you use a custom ROM and its developers, for whatever reason, chose to use the Oreo default renderer (HWUI / OpenGL) instead.
The attached screenshots show the difference between SkiaGL and HWUI.
Please be aware that this stuff is still experimental. At least for me, it partially broke WhatsApp's camera viewfinder (though captured pictures/videos are still fine) and caused Instagram force closes whilst browsing stories. It's quite perceptible that SkiaGL isn't 100% stable on Oreo yet.
If you still wanna flash this, just download the attached ZIP and install the module either via Magisk Manager or via TWRP. At least Magisk 18.1 is required.
Unstable, not compatible with O Having problems with the keyboard
setting the option really makes a difference, much smoother and much less ui stutters ...
would it be possible to port the newest skia files from 9.0 to 8.0/8.1 ??
edit: at least in firefox i see a dramatic speed up of graphics , the rest of the system could be just placebo XDD
edit2: your build prop doesnt seem to work for me .. galaxy s7 oreo 8.0