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HOW TO Android 16 DARK navigation bar - NO ROOT required

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Hi, while changing settings on my Pixel 8 I noticed that the gesture navigation bar turned dark and wanted to share this with all those people who find the white line at the bottom SO annoying!



Here are the steps:



1. Annoying navigation bar at bottom of screen

2. Settings > Developer options > Override force-dark

3. Settings > Display and touch > Colour contrast > (should...

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How can I turn an old Android into a useful dev/test device?

Hi everyone,

I have an old Android phone (4GB RAM / 64GB storage) that's no longer usable as a daily driver. Hardware issues: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, hotspot, and camera are dead. On top of that, it has a replaced display, so the screen quality isn’t great either.

I did manage to set up reverse tethering via USB from my laptop, so the device can still get internet access. Since I already use another phone as my primary, I was wondering if I could turn this one into something useful from a develope...

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Material 3 has an insane range of font sizes.

My eyes aren't good, so I always need some mixture and DPI and font scaling in Android settings. The issue is that Material 3 has massive gaps between the largest font size and the smallest font size now. Due to that I have to increase the global scale so much, that some (parts of) apps become borderline unusable because I can only see a few characters of a word.

I don't think I can do anything about that except reporting a few specific issues in specific apps, but I'd like to know if others ha...

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Quick Tip: You can quickly copy text from your PC to your phone by generating a page QR code in your browser, modifying the text in the popup, and then scanning the QR code with your phone's camera

Those fully in the Apple ecosystem do not have this problem, but for PC + Android users, seamlessly copying text quickly is still a problem. It used to be possible copy test using SwiftKey between a PC and an Android phone, but unfortunately SwiftKey broke that feature and it's been broken for more than year.

Now I use this method to quickly copy text from PC without having to install any extra software that runs in the background. Surprisingly, not many people know about it, so I thought I'd ...

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