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z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
hello, you can now change the casing at the top. thanks
z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
that was the plan, yes! it's live now, along with a few fonts with improved readability to choose from, and a contrast option
z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
miraculously it all worked from the first boot, apart from bluetooth, which she doesn't use. it's using the stock vendor parition, so kapsys' drivers
z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
because it's a 12 key pad, sorta like what you'd see on older phones with t9 layout. it would've been much easier if it was a blackberry-style qwerty keyboard. and the "d-pad" at the top has to move talkback's cursor
z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
yeah, it feels like profiting off of people's accessibility needs, which is pretty sad, but unfortunately, that's the world we live in ;'(

really cool to hear from someone who's actually affected by all of this though! and thanks for the talkback tip, i should look more into that

z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
fair point, i do that only because i'm very used to it. i may introduce an option to auto-capitalize, and maybe different fonts to improve readability (and accessibility), especially for people with dyslexia
z1xus··on Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
thank you! i initially wanted to release it somewhere or make a thread on xda, but never got my hands on it unfortuantely