How to Change your Android Screen Resolution for the Asus Tinker Board

Posted by sde on May 2, 2017 12:47 PM EDT
OSSBlog.org; By Steve Emms
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My Tinker Board is hooked up to a Benq 24? monitor running with a 1920×1080 resolution. On this monitor, Android’s icons and font are too chunky for me, wasting screen real estate. Asus’s Android image is configured to use 240 DPI. Here’s a very simple way to make better use of the screen real estate by reducing the DPI, making icons and fonts appear smaller. After some experimentation, I’m pretty satisfied with 160 DPI.

I’m a massive devotee of the Android Marshmallow image for the Asus Tinker Board. It’s remarkably responsive on this device. While it’s one version behind the latest version of Android, this isn’t a concern. However, a real omission is Google Play Store, although this walk-through shows you how to install this essential app on the device.

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