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|    Maria Sophia to Chris Green    |
|    Re: How to create a plain wallpaper/back    |
|    16 Feb 26 14:51:52    |
      From: mariasophia@comprehension.com              Chris Green wrote:       > I thought this was going to be easy! I want a plain (as in no pattern       > at all) wallpaper and it's proving very difficult to find how to do it.       >       > I can probably create an image file using drawing programs on my       > desktop computer, that's easy. I can see that Android can accept a       > number of image types, do I just create a file of the same size as the       > screen resolution of my phone and use that?              We've discussed this topic in gory detail so many times I can't count them,       so suffice to repeat, other than to point out again (and again) how.              To add value to what has already been described many times, my algorithm is       simply to choose the most efficient (white or black) back ground.              For OLED/AMOLED displays, black backgrounds (& dark mode) are most       efficient while for LCD (IPS, TFT) displays, efficiency is the same       no matter the background color.              Since there's no sense hashing out yet again how to do it since that adds       no value, what I will add is that Settings > System > Developer options       has an (obnoxious) setting for "Turn on Show screen updates" which will       show you EXACTLY which pixels change at every moment you use the phone.              It's enlightening, but it's only for temporary debugging purposes.       In addition, we covered in gory detail the apps that describe the display.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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