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Originally Posted by Skydog
I've never understood the desire to run Android apps on e-ink devices. Been there, done that on my Onyx and it just didn't cut it. If I want want to run an Android app, I use a tablet.
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[Enter rant mode.] Same here. The problem is that Android doesn't know about grayscale. So, for example, you can have an app that uses a color button that contrasts nicely with its surrounding background, but when it's mapped to the 16 levels of gray that e-ink provides, it may be awful. If there was some intelligent way of mapping all colors to black and white then it might work. Or if the Android API provided a way to specify colors when on an e-ink device.
And I tried some Android e-reader apps and some started with a sort of yellowed paper background on the books, which was horrible on e-ink.
And, besides, for me an e-ink device is for things that are mostly static and don't frequently change what's displayed.