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qwerty12 · 06-04-2021, 11:06 PM

I switched from F-Droid Classic to Foxy Droid. The former is great but its scrolling performance when listing lots of applications wasn't good.
Foxy Droid is smoother to use, even with the IzzyOnDroid repo added. It seems to load apps' icons on demand, which happens to benefit RAM-starved devices. FD's ActionBar was dark themed and not showing up properly on the inkPalm.
I changed the colours to look more normal on the inkPalm; you can find the built APK here if interested. As the changes are trivial, you may consider applying them yourself to the original FD APK with Apktool.

I used Foxy Droid to install Aurora Store, from which I then installed the latest Moon+ Reader Pro after signing into my Google account. I don't know if it's too early to tell, but Moon+ Reader Pro doesn't seem to need Google Play Services installed. (If only root was a possibility so microG could be installed

)
Aurora Store works great on the inkPalm, you just need to grant it the ability to install applications from the Android Settings application (Apps & notifications -> Special app access -> Install unknown apps).

MoreLocale 2 works to set the inkPalm's device language into English (United Kingdom) (and maybe others too) with the following caveats:

the only noticeable difference to me between en_GB and en_US is that the am/pm is in lower case on the former...
the dark theme of the application makes it impossible to see the language list. I used scrcpy(-mirrored) to press the Custom Locale button and fill in en for Language and GB for Country myself
when the locale is changed, you must go back into the Android language settings (use my launcher or the guides for the adb command) and make sure English (United States) is the second language. Otherwise after rebooting, the inkPalm will reset your language changes and run through a factory test (in Chinese)...

Anyway.

There's a new minor release of the launcher which lets you change the system-wide setting of automatic screen refreshes after 𝑥 page turns:

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It can be accessed by tapping-and-holding the Settings icon. As far as I know (and I hope this is the case or I wasted time for nothing

), that setting can't be changed anywhere else on the inkPalm 5 across its three settings applications. The original setting is in the Device Settings section of the Moann Settings application which always crashes (the application was made for MiReaders and makes wrong assumptions on other devices). The other settings that section exposes can be changed elsewhere.

06-04-2021, 11:06 PM	#124
qwerty12 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 2168210 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Boox Nova 3, Xiaomi inkPalm 5	I switched from F-Droid Classic to Foxy Droid. The former is great but its scrolling performance when listing lots of applications wasn't good. Foxy Droid is smoother to use, even with the IzzyOnDroid repo added. It seems to load apps' icons on demand, which happens to benefit RAM-starved devices. FD's ActionBar was dark themed and not showing up properly on the inkPalm. I changed the colours to look more normal on the inkPalm; you can find the built APK here if interested. As the changes are trivial, you may consider applying them yourself to the original FD APK with Apktool. I used Foxy Droid to install Aurora Store, from which I then installed the latest Moon+ Reader Pro after signing into my Google account. I don't know if it's too early to tell, but Moon+ Reader Pro doesn't seem to need Google Play Services installed. (If only root was a possibility so microG could be installed ) Aurora Store works great on the inkPalm, you just need to grant it the ability to install applications from the Android Settings application (Apps & notifications -> Special app access -> Install unknown apps). MoreLocale 2 works to set the inkPalm's device language into English (United Kingdom) (and maybe others too) with the following caveats: the only noticeable difference to me between en_GB and en_US is that the am/pm is in lower case on the former... the dark theme of the application makes it impossible to see the language list. I used scrcpy(-mirrored) to press the Custom Locale button and fill in en for Language and GB for Country myself when the locale is changed, you must go back into the Android language settings (use my launcher or the guides for the adb command) and make sure English (United States) is the second language. Otherwise after rebooting, the inkPalm will reset your language changes and run through a factory test (in Chinese)... Anyway. There's a new minor release of the launcher which lets you change the system-wide setting of automatic screen refreshes after 𝑥 page turns: It can be accessed by tapping-and-holding the Settings icon. As far as I know (and I hope this is the case or I wasted time for nothing ), that setting can't be changed anywhere else on the inkPalm 5 across its three settings applications. The original setting is in the Device Settings section of the Moann Settings application which always crashes (the application was made for MiReaders and makes wrong assumptions on other devices). The other settings that section exposes can be changed elsewhere.