Smartphonetechie
Developer Options on Android have a great bunch of options which may change the way you use your device. These options are basically targeted for the developers. However, a normal Android user can also access these settings and make the most of the available options.
Unfortunately, these options are not available on Android devices by default. However, you can still get developer option on android by following few simple steps. Let’s see how we can access these options on our Android phone.
How to get developer options on Android?
If you want to get developer options on your phone then follow these few basic steps.
- Go to settings on your phone.
- Now click on “About Device”. Find build number and click on it 7-9 times. It will now give you access to developer options.
- Now go back to settings and you can see “Developer Option” just above about device.
What Special can you do with developer options?
One of the best hidden features found in developer option is the runtime. We already covered an article on how to change your runtime to ART to get an unexpected boost to your device performance and battery life. You can read this article here. Secondly, you can play with the transition scale and windows transition scale which is quite fun.
Limit Background Processes:
Moreover, you can even limit the background processes. At the moment you will notice that background process limit is set to standard. You can play with these settings and set background processes limit as per your requirements.
Show CPU Usage:
Developer options on Android allows you to display your CPU usage and performance on the screen. You can even use the option to kill the process as soon as you leave it. This means no background process will run and every application will be closed by Android system as soon as leave it. But why would you do that?
Anyways, developer options on android is full of handy options. You just need to understand each option in order to make the most of the available options. Just for information, you might not access this set of options on Nokia Android phones.
