Hi everyone I'm mainly a PHP developer, and have only basic Java experience, but I recently acquired an Android phone (A HTC Desire) and was shocked to discover how poor the out-of-the-box accessibility features are! I had naturally assumed that there would be something along the lines of the full screen zoom features in more recent versions of iPhone OS, but there isn't. In fact, out of the box there's no accessibility features at all, not even the option to set a system-wide font size!
So this was my motivation for starting to investigate Android programming, I want to start implementing some kind of full screen zoom like the iPhone has. I also had an idea for a simpler project to turn the phone into a magnifier (turn the camera on, lock its focal length to the shortest distance and turn the flash on). I think the phone-as-magnifier app is probably something that would make a good beginners project, so that's what I'm going to try first. As for the full screen magnifier app, I'm not sure if this is possible, or how to go about implementing it if it is. It basically needs to be able to overlay any other app and allow the view of that app to be zoomed. Could something like this be done with the provided APIs in Android 2.1, or would it have to be baked into the OS itself? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
