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Android app for Chord sheet creation and live use.

Been looking at a demo of ireal pro. Does allot more than I need, but I like the interface.

Can it display on black background for stage use?
Yes.

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Been looking at a demo of ireal pro. Does allot more than I need, but I like the interface.

Can it display on black background for stage use?

You can set the foreground and background colors to pretty much whatever you would like for Windows. I haven't used the Android version enough to know the answer for that OS:

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You can set the foreground and background colors to pretty much whatever you would like for Windows. I haven't used the Android version enough to know the answer for that OS:

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As far as I can tell, that is LinkeSoft SongBook. Unless iReal Pro and SongBook are surprisingly similar...

But it has the same customizability on Android as on Windows. You can have any colors you like.
 
Update:
The bandleader who necessitated the Tablet purchase called me for a gig and so I got to work. I opened up "SongBook", took one look at the DOS-ish format that popped up and said "this is not for me". I'm sure it's a fine program, and not too hard to understand, but I got cold feet.

6 bucks later I'd loaded up "SongbookPro" (an entirely different program) and realized immediately it seems to do everything I was looking for in a very nice interface.

SongbookPro | The digital songbook app for Android, iOS & Windows (songbook-pro.com)

So, it looks like I've got my Android tablet app and thus far, it looks like I haven't had to make any compromises. I'll give a final update on it's performance after Sunday's gig, sometime next week.