Changing Your Settings 135
1.
From the Home screen, tap
➔
Settings
➔
Developer options
.
2.
Tap the ON/OFF slider, located to the right of the
Developer options field, to turn ON
.
3.
The following options are available:
• Desktop backup password
: allows you to protect your
desktop with a backup password ID.
• Stay awake
: with the Stay awake option enabled, your screen
will never sleep while you are charging the phone.
• Protect SD card
: requires apps to ask your permission before
accessing data on your SD card.
• USB debugging
: allows debugging when the device is
attached to a PC by a USB cable.
• Allow mock locations
: used by developers when developing
location-based applications.
• Select app to be debugged
: allows developers to select a
specific app to debug.
• Wait for debugger
: specified apps must have debugger
attached before executing.
• Show touches
: Displays touch interactions on the screen.
• Show pointer location
: Highlights the data that was touched
on the screen.
• Show layout boundaries
: displays clip bounds, margins, etc.
• Show GPU view updates
: flashes views inside windows when
drawn with GPU.
• Show screen updates
: Areas of the screen flash when they
update.
• Window animation scale
: Configure the scale for animation
(ranges from off to 10x).
• Transition animation scale
: Configure the scale for
transitioning when using animation (ranges from off to 10x).
• Animator duration scale
: Configure the scale for duration
when using animation (ranges from off to 10x).
• Disable hardware overlays
: Assigns the work of redendering
to the GPU.
• Force GPU rendering
: allows the use of 2D hardware
accelerations in applications.
• Strict mode
: Makes the screen flash when applications
perform long operations on the main thread.
• Show CPU usage
: Screen highlights the current CPU usage.
• GPU rendering profile
: Uses a 2D acceleration in applications.
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