[caption id="attachment_299" align="aligncenter" width="1920"]
Source: http://odamiean.deviantart.com/art/Android-Simple-Grey-187067276[/caption]
Most of us are happy with the colorful and glamorous display of our Android smartphones. Oh, the vibrancy, the beauty! But just like any distribution of population has deviations around the mean, there might (would, rather) be a few among the ever rising population of Android users who would prefer the cloudy-and-about-to-rain skies more than the normally-desired-rainbow-filled ones. For those few square (and the fewer hexagon) pegs, there is hope.
To get an absolutely eye-soothing grayscale (aka monochromatic aka greyscale) display to your Android phone, follow the following two step procedure.
- Enable Developer options on your phone
Go to Settings > About phone > Build number > Tap it 7 times. This should work for most Android smartphones. If it worked for you, a new menu item would appear inside Settings just above the ‘About phone’ menu item. A very small and harmless catch here is that, depending upon the brand and model of your phone, it might not be easy to disable developer options once you enable it. But this is harmless because I can't think of any reason why you would want to disable the developer options. It does not affect your phone in any way (nothing negative, as far as I know).
- Go monochromatic!
Developer options > Hardware accelerated rendering > Simulate color space > Change it from Disabled to Monochromatic (monochromacy).
- Want to go back to your rainbow world?
Change Simulate color space back to disabled. As easy as that.
So go ahead now and get that Kindle paperwhite kind of display on your Android phone and make your friends envious! Or whatever. And forget about watching colorful tube -Youtube - videos. Special thanks to Avinash Tripathy for telling me about this wonderful possibility. Disclaimer: This procedure is pretty safe and should not result in anything bad happening to you or to your phone. Do this and your eyes would thank you and me in the next 10 years. However, to take care of the possibility of the weird and rare case of something bad happening to you or your phone (or your neighbor or your dog) because of this change, allow me to say that I am not responsible for any such damage occurring. Full discretion on the part of reader is advised.