[FYT Android Head Units] surfer63:
You ask quite a lot of things and the ones mentioned are your preferences. Maybe other users have other preferences. I have a Skoda Octavia and Skoda's "accent" color is green. At least for VW Golf it is red (which is probably the same as Audi and all VWs).

One I immediately agree upon is to switch the light-yellow frequency font to white. I will change that tonight.

I did a google image search (BMW radio) on the amber/orange color of BMW, but the newer head-units of BMW are more "bluish".

Unfortunately not one of the Russian mods have working RDS text either. Obviously nobody is able to correct that crappy chinese radio app.

"PS" stands for "Programme Service" which is an 8 character string displaying in 98% simply the station name.

"RT" stands for "Radio Text" and is nowadays a 64 character string (used to be a 32 character string) which displays what people call the "rds text".

In a correct situation the "PS" field should be overwritten by a right-2-left scrolling "RT" text. That's why I still have the "PS:" in front of it. This is an "old" image as I changed the "PS:station" to "PS: station".

This alternating PS and RT function is currently not working. You see an "indication" in the @gustden's thumbnails where the "PS:" is still displayed with a part of the scrolling RDS text. RDS text is "broadcasted" at a mind blowing speed of max. 22 characters per second. The radio app uses a looping function to populate this field, but his function makes complete garbage of the text. But the biggest problem is that the RDS text does not "enter" the radio app properly. That said: I don't care too much about it, but it annoys me that something which every super simple radio can do, can't be done by our Sofia radio apps (some of the MTCBs do it correctly)

If I/we are going to work on this it should be a joined effort. The mods are currently:

only the change of buttons (gustden's mod),

a change of lay-out (my mod) which is a json "text" file with xy-coordinates (my station buttons have "squashed" Px numbers as I still need to adapt the buttons which are simple images),

or a combination of both (some of the Russion 4pda.ru mods).

Everyone can do that and others could package it into an apk (which is actually also a simple task).

We could create a shared Google drive or github site where we make per mod a folder for buttons and layout. In that case the code would remain the same and if someone gets the RDS text really working it could be easily added.

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My knowledge of smali and java is nihil compared to yours. As far as I could see the rds text "enters" the radio app as 8 character string where a 4 entry array is used to rotate, instead of an 8 entry array for a 64 character string (8x8). That part you (or less probably me) might be able to solve and maybe it would even work afterwards.

The RDStext is in a separate rdstextview somehow pushed in the strPS string. (all in the smali/com/syu/radio/Radiocontroller.smali files).

I did not look at the PTY strings yet. I know where they are but I was not aware of differences per continent :)