Hi, I am glad you liked the article, Andreas has done a really great job. I will forward your thoughts into the customer service organisation. Thanks for letting us know. Kind regards /Johan
On Jul 6, 8:37 pm, Martin Sall <maris.seiman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really nice article. It is great to see development related tutorials > fromSonyEricssonlately. > > But I would like to ask about font scaling. I myself am visually > impaired since birth (but still a software developer) and I know many > people who wish to use Android devices but cannot do that comfortably > because there is no font scaling built into the core of Android. This > is also bad for people over 50 who do not have a perfect vision > anymore. > > There is a 2 years old feature request on Android issue tracker, but > it seems abandoned by > developers:http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4547 > > Of course, each developer can make the fonts scalable, but they do so > not often. The worst is that the basic phone functions (menu, > contacts, SMS, mail) have too tiny texts. > I myself am looking forward to buy SonyEricsson Neo, but I am afraid I > won't be able to use it comfortably, I need a little bit bigger fonts > everywhere and I would like avoid rooting the device just to do some > hacky font replacement which would look ugly anyway. > > So if someone could bringSonyEricsson'sattention and ask them to > develop more accessible software (just a basic home screen, contacts, > SMS, menus), I guess,SonyEricssonwould get buyers from all the >50 > old people range + some bunch of people with impaired vision. > > I promise you,SonyEricsson: on the day you develop and release some > software update which allows to scale fonts bigger on aSonyEricsson > Neo phone, I'll buy it. For now I'll just read articles about Android > development and use SDK/VirtualBox Android emulators. > > Please,SonyEricsson(and other developers, too), give a helping hand > to visually impaired and not-so-young people. > > Good luck to all developers, > Martin > and some other visually impaired people. > > On 27 Jūn., 12:13, Johan Abramsson <johan.abrams...@sonyericsson.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > This article does, of course, apply to any android phone. > > Since we updated the blog post with a link to tis article the link to > > the blog post has changed. The new link is here, > > >http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/06/27/how-to-scale-images-for-y... > > > We apologize for any inconviniance. > > Kind regards > > /Johan > > > On Jun 22, 10:07 am, Johan Abramsson > > > <johan.abrams...@sonyericsson.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Hard to get images scaled correctly for your application? Are your > > > images too large and causing memory problems? Or are they scaled > > > incorrectly with a poor user experience as a result? > > > To find a good solution for this, we asked Andreas Agvard from the > > >SonyEricssonsoftware department to help shed some light on this > > > topic. > > > > More data and a good sample project are found > > > here:http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/06/13/how-to-scale-images-for-y... > > > > Comments and question ? Please direct them to this news thread. > > > Kind regards > > > /Johan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
