[Android Apps and Games] Droidlovinyogi:
Thanks for asking, but I don’t have any specific colors in mind. My concern is generally more about tones and hues than specific colors, for example I prefer rich tones rather than washed out and milky, or even pastels. If you implement a user-selectable color wheel or grid color chooser like many apps have, along with few font style choices, you would give users control over the look of their notes via a tool that they are probably already familiar with using.

I have no idea of programming or code, so I don’t know how complicated it is to set up, but If you give users full control of a wide range of color/font choices from the jump, it would save you the headache of deciding how many additional user requests for colors and fonts you want to deal with later. Judging from what you’ve already produced, you’d probably prefer to use your valuable creative work time on the content and substance of what your app offers, rather than on excessive details of its style and look; frankly as an end user, I’d rather the former continue to be your focus in going forward.

You’ve provided a myriad of choices in function that can potentially satisfy an impressive range of users’ needs and style of use. Allowing full control over the details of look and style via a color and font chooser, would be keeping with the spirit of what you’ve already created and it is consistent with how the app is constructed. It is what your user base has become accustomed to.

I refer you to Total Commander file-manager, which is not yet in the Android Market but can be found here: http://www.ghisler.com/android.htm. If you are not already familiar with this app, take a look its settings – see Menu> Configure> Fonts and Colors. It offers different font choices, bold or italic, a font point size chooser, individual background and foreground grid color choosers, as well as a mini preview pane. All of which is in simple user-friendly format on one screen. If you haven’t seen it, I’d say it’s a must-see for you. This would be a great model to work with (by the way this is a great file-manager, the best I’ve encountered yet – it’s like Root Explorer on steroids). K-9 uses the same type of grid color chooser – see Menu> More> Settings> Account settings> Display> Account color – though it doesn't offer font style choices, and the font size chooser is in another section of their settings.

Again, I don’t know how hard it would be to include, but my vote is for the layout from Total Commander. Even if initially it is a lot of work for you, I think implementing it would be a slam-dunk. Your users would love the wide range of choices and full control it would provide, plus it would alleviate you of the potential burden of responding – or not – to ongoing post implementation style/color/font requests from users. However if you did decide to provide additional font choices you could at any point thereafter.

Deciding whether to configure it only as a global setting or as per-note/folder setting depends on how much work is involved. It may be better to offer it as a global setting first, and then if there are enough requests add it as a per-note setting. If it is a lot more work for you to set it up as a per-note setting, it doesn’t make sense if people aren’t really going to use it as such.