10 Awesome Features In Android Developer Options..

The Developer Options on Android are most often skipped by users, but they are of the utmost importance for developers. That said, there are many features on this that may be useful to users too. Moreover, even developers tend to miss these features sometimes. Here they are,

1. Enable And Disabling USB Debugging

When you try to run Android-related tools on your PC, most of them require you to enable USB debugging. This can be done by the following method.

- Open Settings -> Developer Options.
- Put a check mark on the USB debugging option.
- This will prompt you with a message to allow USB debugging, select ‘Ok’.

2. Desktop Backup Password

The Android developer options allows you to create a password for your desktop backup.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Select Desktop Backup Password.
- Follow the steps to create the password.

3. Tweak Animation Settings

The animation that appears when you’re moving from one screen to the other can be tweaked using the developer options. You can speed up the animation or completely switch it off.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Find Window animation scale, Animator duration scale and Transition animation scale.
- Adjust the scale. Smaller the number you choose, faster the animation.

4. Enable MSAA For OpenGL Games

Force enabling MSAA gives you higher graphics in your games. This drain’s your device’s battery much faster though.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Force 4x MSAA’.

5. Allow Mock Location

Faking GPS location requires an app, but using that app required you to enable ‘Mock Location’ from Developer Options.

- Settings - > Developer Options.
- Open ‘Allow Mock Location’.

6. Stay Awake While Charging

It is always better for the screen to turn off while charging, but in case you want it on, here’s how.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Click Stay Awake

7. Display CPU Usage Overlay

If you keep this feature on all the time, then it encroaches on the space available on your screen for other activities. This is because the number of processes going on keep increasing over time.

- Settings > Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Show CPU Usage’.
- The overlay appears on the right side of your screen.

8. Don’t Keep App Activities

Your activities on an app are usually saved on your device, but there are some apps perform a lot of activities. This you could avoid.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Don’t keep activities’.

9. Switch Dalvik To ART

This is an experimental runtime that has been designed by Google. You need a device that runs Android KitKat in order to test this one though.

- Settings -> Developer options.
- Choose ‘Select Runtime’ and switch to ART.

ART may make the device slower since it is an experimental runtime and not many apps support it at the moment.

10. Enable Wireless Display Certifications

This option is useful for Miracast-enabled devices and other similar technologies. To do this,

- Settings -> Developer options.
- Choose the ‘Wireless Display Certification’ option.