Based on materials from android-softwares.com and XDA-Developers
How to fit more items on the screen of your Galaxy S7? It turns out that switching to hidden DPI scaling mode can help you. First, let's talk about what this setting is and how it was discovered in the TouchWiz shell.
It is worth noting that it was confirmed that the mode also works in smartphones of the Samsung Galaxy S6 series, but only in those that received the update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Despite the fact that modern Android smartphones have large displays with ultra-high resolution, the user interface is not adapted to accommodate more content on the screen. The reason is in the property Android, the so-called. DPI scaling is a setting that allows device developers to Android scale interface elements such as photos, icons, text, to unify the user experience on displays with different sizes and resolutions.
While a large number of smartphone owners do not need to scale down interface elements, a growing number of power users now need the ability to manually adjust DPI scaling on their devices without diving into the sometimes difficult process of getting root rights.
Google has taken into account that a number of users Android are interested in the ability to compress UI elements, and the first preview Android N, launched a few weeks ago, contains the ability to easily adjust DPI scaling.
Using the experimental Nova Launcher Live Activity widget, an XDA-Developer contributor discovered that a setting called DisplayScalingActivity is hidden in TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S7. For those who are not associated with application development: actions on Android are a kind of building blocks from which all applications for this OS are built.
As it turned out, activating this feature allows the Galaxy S7 user to switch to the 'Compact mode' of the display, in which more elements fit on the screen. The differences can be seen in the screenshots below.
