Android @lemdro.id baatliwala @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Google is preparing to integrate Extra Dim into Android's brightness slider

www.androidauthority.com Google is preparing to integrate Extra Dim into Android's brightness slider

Google may integrate the Extra Dim feature that makes the screen dimmer into the brightness slider, and it could happen in Android 15 QPR1.

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Netflix won't follow it. I have to use a pirate app to watch their shows in the dark cause the lowest brightness it allows is supernova
- Common piracy W
  
  As usual.

I already did that with Tasker. It'll be welcome to have it built-in. :D

How?

Here, this is an export. Try importing it.

<TaskerData sr="" dvi="1" tv="6.3.13">
	<Profile sr="prof15" ve="2">
		<cdate>1699854512825</cdate>
		<edate>1700032681717</edate>
		<flags>8</flags>
		<id>15</id>
		<mid0>9</mid0>
		<mid1>11</mid1>
		<nme>Extra Dim</nme>
		<State sr="con0" ve="2">
			<code>186</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="2"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">screen_brightness</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">1</Str>
		</State>
	</Profile>
	<Task sr="task11">
		<cdate>1699853059094</cdate>
		<edate>1718317181394</edate>
		<id>11</id>
		<nme>Extra Dim Off</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>235</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">reduce_bright_colors_activated</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">0</Str>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="0"/>
			<Str sr="arg4" ve="3"/>
		</Action>
	</Task>
	<Task sr="task9">
		<cdate>1699853059094</cdate>
		<edate>1726240594881</edate>
		<id>9</id>
		<nme>Extra Dim On</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>235</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">reduce_bright_colors_activated</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">1</Str>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="0"/>
			<Str sr="arg4" ve="3"/>
		</Action>
	</Task>
</TaskerData>

I have 'night mode' and 'extra dark' in my quick settings right below the slider. If I can get rid of one or both with an updated slider that'd be a great improvement. Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.
- Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.
  
  Because they have to compete with 50k lux outside and then scale to 600 lux indoors, then down to just to a few lux in a darkened room.
  
  Perhaps the brightness slider needs to be more logarithmic so you can slide from 0.001 percent to 100 percent more easily.
  
  Also they probably want to avoid the issue of a user accidentally sliding it all the way to the left and then being unable to use their phone lol, there'd be no way to fix it except finding a dark room (if you were even aware of what happened and why your screen "won't turn on")
  
  That would be great. The only time I'm ever adjusting the slider is the dimmest 5%. The top 50% of the slider really doesn't matter to me. It's annoying trying to hit exactly the right pixel on the low end though
I'm surprised this wasn't a thing before. This is a common sense change.
Samsung's own spin of android allows this.

Before it did, I used this: https://f-droid.org/packages/giraffine.dimmer/

Not perfect, but good enough. Would be good to have on stock android though
I use an app called Darker, it's pretty decent
- Same!
Anyone else notice severe ghosting when at very low levels of brightness?
Are you fucking kidding me. I already can't see shit at the maximum brightness, when I am trying to use my phone under the sunlight.
- Then don't use it?
  
  Yes, thanks captain obvious for telling me that.
are they targeting trump supporters?
- Okay there is a place for political jokes, and this one just really didn't land in the right one, I think.

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