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Paranoid Android teases Halo: It’s like Facebook chat heads, but for any app with notifications

One of the most interesting features of Facebook Home for Android is the Chat Heads notification system. Instead of showing an alert in your status bar every time you get a new message from someone you’re chatting with, a picture of that person will pop up on your screen and stay on the screen no […]

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Paranoid Android team bringing multi-window mode to Android

Paranoid Android is a custom version of Android that’s been pushing the boundaries of the platform for a while. The developers were among the first to let users decide on a per-app basis whether to use the tablet or smartphone version of various apps. And Paranoid Android’s PIE menu reinvents the Android button and notification […]

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Paranoid Android 3.0 RC1 is a configurable Android ROM for phones, tablets

Paranoid  Android is a custom ROM for Android devices which is probably best known for letting users adjust DPI settings on a per-app basis. In plain English, that means you can decide whether each app on your device should be displayed in phone or tablet mode. But with the launch of Paranoid Android 3.0, the […]

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Change DPI settings for Android apps to enable tablet apps on a phone (root only)

Google Android lets developers create apps that behave differently on phones and tablets. For instance the default Gmail app has a two-column view on a tablet, but if you use the exact same app on a phone, you only see one column. Some apps, such as personal finance tracker Mint or photo editing app Photoshop […]

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Paranoid Android PIE rethinks the way you use buttons in Android

The first Android phones had physical buttons below the screen for home, back, menu, and search functions. More recent phones and tablets are button-free, but feature on-screen buttons which move when you rotate your device. But the developers of Paranoid Android have come up with a novel new way for those on-screen buttons to work. […]