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[Q] ICS Tablet UI

Hi all!
I'm a big fan of Windows/Honeycomb UI. I've always wondered to boot honeycomb on my smartphone, and I'm now interested how to use ICS tablet UI in my Galaxy S.
I've tried to change dpi (teamhacksung's ICS). I used 120 value, and system tried to switch into tablet mode, but only partially - notification bar disappeared, desktop switching is tablet-like (3D) now, and some apps switched into tablet (I suppose so), but nothing more.
I'd be happy to just feel the "honeycombish" interface, even only for some fun, and you guys?

i gave this a go myself, i was messing around with the DPI settings and realised certain parts of the UI were scaling and changing. But when i set the value to low my status bar was constantly crashing. I just going to assume perhaps a few changes in the code may be needed to make the ICS tablet UI function properly on a mobile device.

Thats right. I'm interested why there is noone who started developing such mod. There was a lot of ports and fun about honeycomb on phones, and now is just a pure occasion to feel it on mobile device in all it's glory! It would be a great fun to mess with tablet UI on my I9000.

Anarkia had created one,am using it currently. Go to android development and look for aokp b33 by anarkia. Or go direct to the file location http://www.mediafire.com/?88ixkz88i...m,k7k983ibfaqky89,st7y71d1dcrjg,62on90o85pb6h
Thread url: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1579813
FYI,anarkia already stopped dev on tablet ui,but his alpha version for me is use-able.
Peace.
Fuad Malaysia

[Q] Honeycomb layout for apps on Note?

Does anyone know how (if it's possible) to have certain apps default to their Honeycomb layout on the Note? Gmail, Google Music, and Pulse are my biggest wants when comes to having the Honeycomb layout on my Note.

I think I may have figured out the answer to my own question. If I remember correctly, I doubt that the API of 2.3.x supports the "tablet" features of apps designed with Honeycomb in mind.
Maybe this will change once we get ICS though!

Well.. Netflix App is layed out like a tablet...
Some apps use two parameters to determine if to layout as tablet o as phone..
One is the resolution.. Like, I believe, Netflix. A WXGA resolution is almost always a tablet resolution. So the app will layout out as it..
The other parameter is screen pixel density... The Note comes predefined at a 320 dpi, which is a High Pixel Density (hpdi) as seen in apps. The galaxy Tab 10.1, for example has listed a 149 dpi which is either low (lpdi) or medium (mpdi).
So the apps which have a lpdi or mdpi layout defined in code (for Tablets) can show like that.
You can actually change the dpi value that apps "read" from the device by rooting it and with some apps like LCD Resolution (or changing the required file in /system)..
So while the Note has ~300dpi, apps (and Home, and app drawer, and all) will show as ~200 or whatever number you want..
I changed mine to 240dpi to take advantage of the High Resolution and read more onscreen (instead of just view a higher pixel density for icons).. and apps like Opera Mini show as a tablet...
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Of course there are just a few apps running on gingerbread and with tablet layouts.. This will all change a lot with the ICS update in March; and we will be able to view Tablet layouts for a lot more apps..

I agree the Note doesn't use the whole potential of such huge screen software wise. All apps work in phone mode not in tablet mode. Changing screen resolution helps a lot with certain apps but then it gets really hard to use the UI which gets also smaller. I wish there was a way to change screen resolution for specific apps while leaving the rest at default resolution but i already know this is technically not possible at all. I hope our Notes could reach their full potential with next official ICS update ... I'm already looking forward to flash it !

Personally I'm just hoping that ICS will bring the best of both worlds really. Just waiting for a stable release of CM9 baby!

Opera Mobile UI in CM7/CM9

Has anyone figured out how to get the Opera Mobile tablet friendly UI in CM9? The UI is great in CM7 but on CM9 it defaults to the phone UI.
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I'm having the same issue, it seems that the reason behind it is that the ICS builds have LCD density and DPI setting which result in Android believing that the screen is 4 inches instead of 7 inches. There are several screen test utilities on the market and all show a screen diagonal of about 4 inches.
I posted this issue on my.opera and predictably (seems that their devs don't read the forums...) received no answer to date.
Does anyone know of a utility to change the DPI settings in ICS, or how to manually chnage them in the build.prop (or does ICS store this somewhere else?)? I've played aound a bit but without success.....
Thanks,

Changing screen density to 120 gets the Tablet UI, makes things very small though in launcher etc....

I haven't tried Opera mobile but I played with Opera mini some.
It worked okay after I reduced the font size.

What UI are you using?

I tried the default UI, and wasn't happy with it. Didn't really hate it, but just not used to using a tablet in portrait mode. So I went ahead and change the DPI down to 160 and put it in tablet UI. Even with font on huge, it just doesn't seem right. I understand that is probably due to the fact, that tablet mode wasn't built for a 7 in screen, but I felt I had a better experience on my nook. What does everyone else think?

I tried the tablet UI but ended up going back to default. If you want it to go landscape, download Rotation Locker

I'd give it a try, but I don't feel like wiping my data just to root.

I think the tablet UI just fits the machine better than it's standard "phone" UI. My only complaint is the empty space created around the edges of the homescreen and application drawers when I run it as a tablet.

There is a way to enable tablet ui without messing with dpi tho it requires changes to systemui and framework. I'm running a tablet ui jellybean rom on my kindle fire, I wish i was smart enough to do those kinds of things but instead I have to wait till someone else does it then donate to them.

[Q] How to get the Nexus 7's UI on Galaxy tab (running AOKP SGT7 JB)

The rom have a Nexus 7 UI when it the dpi is set at 160, but the font is way too small.
Scaling up to an higher dpi (e.g. 213 dpi, same as nexus 7) results in a phone UI instead of the nexus 7's.
Also apps appear have some grafical issue to handle such dpi and are formatted for the phone UI style.
I want to be able to have a Nexus 7 feeling rather than a large phone UI, and be able to read without squeezing my eyes, but I don't know how to do, or what to trigger.
FYI I already set the font size bigger, but it works only at a system level, within the apps the font size seems not to follow my settings.