
Changing Your Settings 333
Developer Options
Use the Developer options to set options for application
development.
Important!
These features are used for development purposes
only.
1.
From the Home screen, press
and then tap
Settings
➔
Developer options
.
2.
The following options are available:
• Desktop backup password
: Allows you to protect your
desktop with a backup password ID.
• Stay away
: with the Stay away option enabled, your screen will
never sleep while you are charging the device.
• 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
: Forces areas of the screen to flash as it
is updated.
• 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 rendering to
the GPU.
• Force GPU rendering
: Uses a 2D acceleration in applications.
• Strict mode
: Makes the screen flash when applications
perform long operations on the main thread.