Pleas can some one help me understand what values I should use to fit most android screen sizes.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.airrocketapps.macuser.airrocketapps">
<supports-screens
android:resizeable="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true"
android:anyDensity="true"
android:requiresSmallestWidthDp="320dp"
android:compatibleWidthLimitDp="320dp"
android:largestWidthLimitDp="320dp"/>
<application
Please have look at this article Android Layouts for different Screens
you have to made layout for every screen sizes if you want to handle all types of screen i,e landscape,potrait etc. You must use wrap_content or match_parent for views to fit into present screen or activity.
If you don't specify it will "support", as in launch on, any device with which the rest of the config is compatible. You can remove the support-screens tag completely. But there's a big difference between your layouts _fitting) on screen and them being appropriately designed for those screens.
Checkout Supporting Multiple Screens, Supporting Different Screen Sizes, and Designing for Multiple Screens in the Android docs.
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I'm using the Layout Variants tool to create differents sizes for my layout.
the problem is that when i pick any large Device to preview my layout..
it keeps using the normal size
how can i force it to pick the right layout for the screen ?
by the way i already did the AndroidManifest support screens
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true" />
but still having problems!
also my app icon looks so small too in my phone!
any idea?
I am creating an android application that should be supported for both phones and tablets. I found a way to create multiple layout files for each size, but I don't want to do it. Is there any way to do it through programming or some other way.
Don't specify the width and height to certain dp values. Instead give it as match_parent or wrap_content.
Also, try to include the following in manifest file.
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:resizeable="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true" />
Try to put height and width match parent and give weight ti every content then it will render in every screen.
I have developed an application that is to be run on android Tablet as well. It is working on android phones perfectly. When I ran it on Tablet, it did not expand on whole screen. It just covered a area equal to a mobile device. I want that it also runs on Tablet and cover the whole screen as running on mobile device. Do I have to create two different designs for each type and at run time before using design, I would have to check it whether it is android phone or table?
Add below code in android manifest
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
Add the following block of code in your manifest file after the <uses-sdk>tag:
<supports-screens
android:xlargeScreens="true"
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
Note: Add the android:xlargeScreens="true" attribute if and only if your minSdkVersion is equal to or more than 9.
In addition to adding this block of code, follow this link. Also suggest you to go through the following links:
Supporting Multiple Screens
Supporting Different Screen Sizes
Supporting Different Densities
Hope this helps.
please try
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:maxSdkVersion="11"/>
<supports-screens android:anyDensity="true" />
in Manifest.xml before tag.
I hope it may be help you.
Yes, ideally you'll design layouts targeted to tablets. You don't have to, but you can. See here for details. Your app is running in "screen compatibility mode". See here for info about that.
I think you used fixed width and height for any view or layout in your app, to support a fixed resolution of your mobile device.
If you use fill_parent, wrap_content and weight property, such things in your app, the app will fill entire screen of any android device. Once review your code.
Small example
Assume device has no rotation. Your device has resolution 320 X 240. you have to fill 3 buttons horizontally, you can put each button width=100 and remaining as margin/padding of layout. If you run same app on device with resolution 640 X 480, some space will come after 3 buttons. If you use width=fill_parent and layout_weight=1 for these 3 buttons and parent's layout_width=fill_parent, on any resolution these 3 buttons will fill the entire width of screen.
I hope it may help you.
I look over some guide and tutorial but my problem still exists.
I develop this application using small image to create button, text and background and i put it in res/drawable-ldpi directory. Then i see on web that i have to make images with this proportion:
3:4:6. So if my images were small, to create them for medium screen size, i have to take dimension of small image and multiple for 4/3, and for large screen multiple for 6/3=2.
I see these here: Providing Resource.
Now when i create just some images for normal screen ( medium ) i launch emulator with screen density 160 or 200, but the image still remain that used in ldpi.
What can i do?
Can you explain me well what is the problem with these multiple screen and how to solve this?
This is a part of my android manifest:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="spazio.digitale.com" android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" android:installLocation="auto"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" android:maxSdkVersion="11" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<supports-screens android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true"
android:anyDensity="true" />
use to pixels scale to design..
put this in manifest
<supports-screens
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:anyDensity="true"
/>
For button, create images using 9-patch tool.
With bitmaps, the rule of thumb is to start with the highest density first, and then scale it down, because it's always easier to scale down bitmaps than to scale them up.
Also, you seem to be confusing screen density with screen size. Do not worry about the screen size for now (unless you have one background image that takes the entire screen size, which I doubt). And no, the ratio you mentioned has nothing to do with screen sizes, that only applies to screen densities. Fix the density issue first and foremost. Then, once that's fixed, you can focus on making sure the layout fits the size.
And don't even bother with ldpi, that's only 0.2% of the market of handsets. You're just wasting your time optimizing for that density.
I'm starting 3.1 AVD and wnen loading upplication to it the application shows fully but much smaller than actual screen like its dimentions were set statically to be smaller than the screen.
Add an appropriate <supports-screens> element to your manifest, and consider adding a <uses-sdk> element with android:targetSdkVersion="11".
If you are supporting tablet screen sizes, a likely element would be:
<supports-screens android:xlargeScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="false" />
You could consider adding true for small screens as well, if you are supporting that size too.