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Originally Posted by hobnail
[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.
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Precisely. Also, trying to guess where the icons, tiles and menus have disappeared (due to the lack of contrasting colors) render them non-functional. None of the apps translate well to e-ink and its 16 levels of gray because they weren't written for that purpose.
>>And, besides, for me an e-ink device is for things that are mostly static and don't frequently change what's displayed.<<
I wholeheartedly agree!