As https://superuser.com/revisions/1512700/2 explains, Windows supports this functionality:

Font substitution is set via the registry under the FontSubstitutes registry key at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes

Likewise, almost all desktop-focused Linux-based OSes do, with fc-alias. As an example, on my Fedora 40 KDE Spin installation:

fc-match monospace
fc-match sans-serif
fc-match serif

returns >

> NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Mono" "Regular"
> NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"
> NotoSerif-Regular.ttf: "Noto Serif" "Regular"
>

However, I see absolutely no information online regarding whether the AOSP supports this functionality, nor how. Irrespective, I've reason to believe that support might exist, because when I view an HTML message via the official GMail, Outlook, and Proton Mail e-mail client applications with text content set to monospace, the typeface utilized appears to be monospace, and consistent across the clients.

What I'm talking about: * Facebook publishes a standalone app called Messenger on the Play Store. It's a chat app, for interactions with other Facebook users. It implements something called "chat heads" which are these round bubbles that sit on top of everything else in the Android UI (except the status bar) that allow for opening an Always On Top chat UI. * Facebook also publish their namesake app, which implemented intrusive notifications for itself, that appear at the top of the screen and contain their relevant content. They render on top of the system status bar preventing access to it when the app isn't active These are benign examples but they intrude on userland and feel malicious in the way they manifest themselves -- appearing without warning. Facebook gave its apps hidden ways to disable these things. What surprises me is that there are not more apps that exploit these UI security "holes". If I were in the business of infecting people's phones, I would take advantage of this and make the most infuriatingly annoying malware because it's as if one program is given control of the entire interface with no escape. Imagine the things a malicious bit of code could do if it literally prevented the user from doing anything about it. They can't use the interface, so they can't kill the app, they can't turn off the phone and on many phones you can't remove the battery, etc. Is there an obvious reason why this sort of thing isn't more exploited? I can't find much about it.

I have the Sound Manager app . The app dates back to Android 2.2 and needs a hardware menu button press to launch its menu . Can I emulate the hardware menu button on my KitKat 4.4 device , so that I can see the menu?

Is it possible to remove the TouchWiz UI and have the phone behave like the vanilla Android UI?

I'm not sure what some of the status bar icons mean on my Android Nexus 5 device (I'm referring to the icons in top right of screen, adjacent to the time). I've googled frequently but I keep getting back a list of icons to use in app development. I'm looking for a list of the system status bar icons and an explanation of the meaning of that icon. I'm interested specifically in the vanilla Android Lollipop OS on Nexus.

How do I disable HTC Sense on my HTC Desire HD without having to root my phone? I looked at a guide for the regular Desire and attempted to follow that but it didn't work (was missing the ability to force close HTC Sense).

I'm about to buy a new Android phone, and I'm looking at the LG Optimus One P500 . IMHO it's a little better than comparable models from other brands (eg. Samsung Galaxy Fit), but there's only one problem that I have with it: I want a "pure-Google experience" as in AOSP Android as seen in the Nexus S et al. So, before going ahead and buying it, I'd like to ask whether it's possible to root the phone and somehow achieve what I want (and remove the custom LG modifications, esp. the dock). Also I've heard that the variant used on the Optimus V isn't modified as much - can that be used with the Optimus One?

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. I love it. I think Google's default honeycomb UI is fine, but Samsung wanted to improve upon it with their own UI called "TouchWiz". Following an annoying trend however, they released their device before their software was finished and promised to provide the new UI and software enhancements in a future update. Well, that update is now available, and my tablet has been nagging me for more than a week to apply it. I keep hitting "postpone". If the update includes bug fixes or improved functionality, then I might be better off applying it. But I'm a bit worried about performance. It seems to me that alternative home screen managers, Windows explorer shells, browser toolbars, and other UI "enhancements" available on the various platforms tend to bog down the system, put their little hooks into everything, and just generally get in the way. I'm also worried that applying this patch might disable something in the vanilla functionality that I need. I haven't heard that that's the case, but it's not unusual for manufacturers to turn off functions that the vanilla Android OS has built in. So, what I'd like to know is, will applying the software update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 cause any issues that I'd want to know about? Will it hurt performance? Will it take up tons of system resources? Will it disable features I need? I'd love to see a post-TouchWiz review of the machine from a major tech publication, but I haven't found one yet.