I am using the visual editor in Android Studio. In there, the text is really big, like how I want it to be. But when I build it on a physical device it is default size.
Thanks in advance!
simply create many layout that support pixels make all your layout handle your show way
read this to understand the idea
https://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screensizes
and do this in your code then check the devices
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8256573/6998825
there's also something else you may have not noticed yet
in android studio Preview Layout you can choose your the preview device as your actual device or same as it.
this way the preview design will be same as your device. but for other devices you should have above answers in mind.
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I have this weird problem with Android studio that's driving me crazy.
I have a new monitor, with a higher resolution (2560x1440), and on that monitor the toolbar menus looks small, they get reduced to 7 rows and I have no idea how to change this behaviour. So far it is the only software that does this, is there some settings where I can change the height of the menus?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 if it makes any difference.
(sorry for the picture I couldn't take a screenshot with the menu open)
You can change the font size of Android Studio UI. This might help.
File -> Settings -> Appearance and Behavior -> (Tick) Use Custom Font -> Set your desired font size at Right of the Use Custom Font option.
Checkout the Screenshot here
While I still don't know if the problem is solvable via any internal setting in Android Studio, I managed to resolve this issue by swapping my HDMI cable with a DisplayPort. What really puzzled me was the fact that only Android studio seemed to be affected.
My android app looks different on the phone than android studio
look at screenshot
app in the phone screenshot
App in the Android studio screenshot
why is that? and how can I fix that?
Your preview shows what your layout would look like on a Pixel 3, which is quite a large phone. From what I saw on your screenshot looks like your device isn't quite as large so I'd recommend you to use ConstraintLayout for 2 reasons:
Consistency across different screen sizes - it's much more likely your layout will look the same on a large screen and a small one
Better performance, especially for your case since you'll be able to do everything with a single layout, without having to nest several layouts
For more information on ConstraintLayout, please check out this post I wrote on Medium
I have been facing this issue while creating any android program/app using android studio. Whatever I design in android studio, it is not displaying properly as designed in android studio while running the app on my phone.
In short, sometimes size and the places of the controls get changed while running the app on my android phone. Please help. Thank you.
That's probably because of the difference in screen sizes of your preview and your physical phone . I've recently started using constraint layout and I think it's the best so far, a bit confusing at first but easy to understand it, it even has an option for percentage of width/height of the total screen for a view. Try that out.
I know this is not a technical related question.But i do not have any idea.I am going to develop a project which should be supported in both phone and tablet.Is it possible having one project working for both tablet and phone ?
Yes. The only thing you need to keep in mind where you keep your graphics. Because it will cause different problems if you do not treat and handle them depending on the screen size. Only thing matters is the android version. If you deploy your app in any phone or a tablet where the version is newer or equal to the target version it works. But of course you cant take a call or some other mobile functionality from a tablet if its not supporting that features.
You can use drawable-hdpi,drawable-mdpi and drawable-ldpi for the graphics(images which use in project) and also use layout with multiple screen by custom layout like layout-480x320 , layout-600x1024 etc. in layout you can custom screen xml file.
Is it normal, that styles and includes don't have any effect in preview in Eclipse? The more I get into Layout building the less I can use the preview. Even in the newest SDK Version it's so poorly made.
Yes, this has been my experience with the Eclipse layout preview.
The layout preview of Eclipse is not suitable for a real representation of the final layout.
To get a real representation use either an emulator or a real device and the HierarchyViewer if you want to debug your layout.
There exists DriodDraw which is a web-based visual Android layout composition tool written in Java. It is however limited in its functionality and maybe not really what you were looking for.