My current android code to retrieve the screen height in pixels is this:
Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().heightPixels
However when the app is running in full screen mode on Samsung S9 (and probably on similar devices) the returned height is the same as it is when the app is not running fullscreen, i.e. it is calculated without the buttons menu bar that is gone when we're in fullscreen.
Any ideas on a better way to retrieve the height or possibly to be aware of the fact that the app is running full screen?
You can use
val size = Point()
windowManager.defaultDisplay.getRealSize(size)
size.y // will be your needed height
or in Java
Point size = new Point()
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getRealSize(size)
size.y // this one will be your height
Hope it's what you need.
How can I find out my screen size programmatically,
in the units used by touch events
and View measurement/layout?
In other words, I want the coordinates
of the bottom-right corner of the screen,
in the coordinate system used by touch events'
getRawX()/getRawY() and View.getLocationOnScreen().
I'm hesitant to call the desired event/view units "pixels"
since evidently there are several notions of "pixels"
on my phone in various modes,
and they're not adding up to a consistent story.
I see this has been asked and answered a lot
on stackoverflow and elsewhere,
but none of the answers actually work on my phone
(droid 4, android 4.1.2) in all modes:
Can I find out width of screen programmatically in android app?
How do I get the ScreenSize programmatically in android
Android set View visibility programmatically based on screen size
How do I get the height of the screen in Android?
Get the screen height in Android
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/IpxnfvDFrpc
http://shuklaxyz.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-programmatically-figure-out.html
http://coderock.net/how-to-determine-screen-resolution-programmatically/
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/313848/Get-actual-screen-size-for-the-application-layout
Android and setting width and height programmatically in dp units
http://www.simplecodestuffs.com/how-to-get-screen-dimensions-programmatically-in-android/
http://www.androidsnippets.com/get-size-and-orientation-of-the-screen
http://grokbase.com/t/gg/android-developers/127aatfqb6/how-to-determine-screen-resolution-programmatically
(wow!)
This is for library code that needs to work
regardless of whether the app is in "screen compatibility mode"
(i.e. targetSdkVersion<=10 in the manifest) or not,
and I also don't want to make any assumptions
about the position, size, or existence of the status bar
or any other similar screen decorations.
Here are the facts:
my phone (a droid 4 running android 4.1.2)
has 540x960 physical pixels,
i.e. little colored glowing dots.
the size of the screen in the desired units,
from looking at touch events and View measurements, is
360x640 when the app is in screen compat mode,
540x960 when the app is not in screen compat mode.
These are the numbers I need to find programmatically,
without mucking with touch events or Views to find them,
but I'm having extreme difficulty finding any API
that will return these numbers.
Display and DisplayMetrics objects obtained
in various ways all claim the screen size
is 540x960 "pixels"
(whether in screen compat mode or not).
To be specific, the following all say 540x960 all the time:
DisplayMetrics.{width,height}Pixels,
Display.getSize(),
Display.getRealSize(),
Display.get{Width,Height}(),
Configuration objects obtained in various ways
all say screen{Width,Height}Dp = 360x614
(whether in screen compat mode or not).
I don't believe that represents the whole screen,
since the aspect ratio is wrong.
(I think it's the whole screen
minus the status bar; I need the whole screen.)
I think it's safe to say that the whole screen is 360x640 dp,
though I don't know any API that returns that 640.
DisplayMetrics obtained in various ways
say the "density" is
1.0f when in screen compat mode,
1.5f when not in screen compat mode.
The activity's
getWindow().getAttributes().{width,height}
isn't helpful since it typically contains MATCH_PARENT
rather than actual sizes.
But I can apparently get the desired answer from an activity's
getWindow().getDecorView().getMeasured{Width,Height}()
(which is actually surprising since
the activity's window's decorView
doesn't look like it's taking up the whole screen;
it looks like it's taking up the screen minus the status bar).
But I don't want to rely on this because if the window ever gets resized
(soft keyboard appearing? someone calling window.setAttributes()?
or maybe I'm not in an Activity at all),
this is clearly going to be all wrong.
I understand the following formula is supposed to hold:
pixels = dp * density
That seems to agree with all the reported numbers ((3),(4),(5) above)
when not in screen compatibility mode:
540x960 = 360x640 * 1.5
But in screen compatibility mode it doesn't add up:
540x960 != 360x640 * 1
So, something is awry.
The simplest explanation, I think,
is that the methods listed in (3) above
are simply giving the wrong answer for "pixels" when
in screen compat mode-- that is, they were intended
to return 360x640 "pixels" but they are wrongly returning 540x960 instead.
But there may be other ways of looking at it.
In any case, getting the desired numbers regardless of mode,
from the above puzzle pieces, is certainly a tricky puzzle.
I have found a way that seems to work on my phone in both modes,
but it is extremely circuitous,
and it relies on two assumptions that still seem rather shaky
(as described in the code comments below).
Here is my recipe:
/** get screen size in "pixels", i.e. touchevent/view units.
* on my droid 4, this is 360x640 or 540x960
* depending on whether the app is in screen compatibility mode
* (i.e. targetSdkVersion<=10 in the manifest) or not. */
public void getScreenSizePixels(int widthHeightInPixels[/*2*/])
{
Resources resources = getResources();
Configuration config = resources.getConfiguration();
DisplayMetrics dm = resources.getDisplayMetrics();
// Note, screenHeightDp isn't reliable
// (it seems to be too small by the height of the status bar),
// but we assume screenWidthDp is reliable.
// Note also, dm.widthPixels,dm.heightPixels aren't reliably pixels
// (they get confused when in screen compatibility mode, it seems),
// but we assume their ratio is correct.
double screenWidthInPixels = (double)config.screenWidthDp * dm.density;
double screenHeightInPixels = screenWidthInPixels * dm.heightPixels / dm.widthPixels;
widthHeightInPixels[0] = (int)(screenWidthInPixels + .5);
widthHeightInPixels[1] = (int)(screenHeightInPixels + .5);
}
Is there any better/cleaner way
to find the size of the screen??
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
Point size = new Point();
display.getSize(size);
int width = size.x;
int height = size.y;
Now you can measure your screen size in pixel which is a better measurement unit than centimeter because all the buttons ,textviews etc.. are measured in this unit. That what I use normally
By using the DisplayMetrics you can get height and width of the screen of any device. Note that width and height are sensitive to rotation.
here is the code.
DisplayMetrics metrics;
int width = 0, height = 0;
In your onCreate Method
metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
height = Math.min(metrics.widthPixels, metrics.heightPixels); //height
width = Math.max(metrics.widthPixels, metrics.heightPixels); //width
Try this.
In your #6, you note that the DecorView seems to provide what you want, but you don't think it is realiable. I believe that is as close as you can come. According to the documentation for Window.getDecorView:
Retrieve the top-level window decor view (containing the standard window frame/decorations and the client's content inside of that), which can be added as a window to the window manager.
The status bar is part of the window decoration mentioned there. Software keyboards and other overlays will receive their own window, so they shouldn't interfere with the relevant values. It is correct that isn't precisely the display metrics, but if your application is full screen it should always be the full screen size filtered through the compatibility translator. Other applications won't have access to your application's Window, so there is no need to worry about some other app changing the attributes while you aren't looking.
Hope that helps.
I should put this as a comment but I don't have the rep for that.
This may not be a totally correct answer but I got my dimensions when I switched the height and width in the DisplayMetrics method.
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
width = metrics.heightPixels;
height = metrics.widthPixels;
as I said this may not be correct but I don't know why but it worked for me.
If you are using api level 17 or higher check out getRealMetrics and getRealSize in Display
For api level 14,15 & 16 look here
I've used Pythagoras theorem to find the diagonal size of Android phone/tablet screen, same principal can be applied to iPhone or Blackberry screen.
DisplayMetrics met = new DisplayMetrics();
this.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(met);// get display metrics object
String strSize =
new DecimalFormat("##.##").format(Math.sqrt(((met.widthPixels / met.xdpi) *
(met.widthPixels / met.xdpi)) +
((met.heightPixels / met.ydpi) * (met.heightPixels / met.ydpi))));
// using Dots per inches with width and height
Pythagoras must have been a genios, he knew smart phone programming so many years ago :p
I use the below method to get the width of the device :
public static int getDeviceWidth(Context context){
WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();
int width=display.getWidth();
return width;
}
I think this function will help you to simply get the width and height of your android screen size. The function returns the width and height as an array of integers as shown below
private int[] getScreenSIze(){
DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
int h = displaymetrics.heightPixels;
int w = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
int[] size={w,h};
return size;
}
and on your create method output your width and height as shown below
int[] screenSize= getScreenSIze();
int width=screenSize[0];
int height=screenSize[1];
screenSizes.setText("Phone Screen sizes \n\n width = "+width+" \n Height = "+height);
Download source code and test it on your android studio
This works for me:
int width = Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().widthPixels;
int height = Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().heightPixels;
I used this to update width of my items in a horizontal recycler view.(according to my requirement)
Hope it helps someone!
For this solution in Kotlin, try this:
private fun yourFunction(){
val metrics = DisplayMetrics()
windowManager.defaultDisplay.getMetrics(metrics)
val width = metrics.widthPixels
val height = metrics.heightPixels
}
I am trying to figure out the screen size I will have in portrait and in landscape at the beginning of my app.
I can get the real display size using Display.getRealSize() and then calculate the navigation bar height in case there is one.
However, in devices with 600dp or less the navigation bar can have different heights (depending on orientation) and may even move to the right in landscape mode.
My app would needs to know these parameters when it begins (the app is connected to a cloud server that receives these dimensions when it connects - so I really need to know these before the app starts doing things).
My current solution is this:
Resources res = Resources.getSystem();
id = res.getIdentifier("navigation_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
int navigation_bar_height = res.getDimensionPixelSize(id);
Although this works, it is never a good practice to use android's internal resources.
Is there any other way of knowing the dimensions of the screen in a different orientation BEFORE you rotate the device?
For getting dimensions of devices.try following code
DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm);
final int height=dm.heightPixels;
final int width=dm.widthPixels;
So I have been facing this problem for a while and still I cant find solution for it. Hopefully you guys can give me a hand in this. I have a cards game that a player can see his cards like any other cards game.
The problem is that a lot of people complained that cards are too small.When I run it on my devicr (galaxy s2) the cards size are good. By chance someone sent me a screenshot from his HTC and the cards are indeed smaller than What I have.
Please note that I have this 3 different density folders and my Images view are set at wrap content.
I Have 2 solutions in mind and I appreciate if you can help further
1) instead of wrap content, I user a predefined width for each screen size (not density).This will garaunter a specifc size (space it occupies)on large screens for example
2) Make the imageview size relative to the width of the screen.I dont know how to do it so any pointers are appreciated.
3) any suggestions?
please help a programmer stuck in this delemma
You can use DesplayMetrics to get the dimensions of the device at run time and use the width and height you get.
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
int width = metrics.widthPixels;
int height = metrics.heightPixels;
ImageView iv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.yourImageViewId);
iv.setWidth(width);
iv.setHeight(height * 2/3);
or something like that. this way you will never get such issues.
Do you have images in different sizes for different densities? Which scale type are you using for ImageViews?
You can create different layouts for densities but I would start with experimenting with scale types - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ImageView.ScaleType.html
I've made a couple of apps for android, but none used graphics that much. I'm now trying to make an actual game. I have some bitmaps that are on my canvas. My problem is I'm not sure where to initialize their positions. and in OnTouch events I want to make sure the bitmaps don't stray outside the screen.
For example, initializing one bitmap:
canvas.drawBitmap(glider.getGraphic(), 30, 20, null);
20 and 30 were arbitrary. But I want to be able to write something like screen.getWidth() so I know exactly where the bitmap is relative to the border of the screen. I can't find this in the developers reference.
If you're just looking to get the screen dimensions, take a look at the DisplayMetrics class. You can get an instance and the measurements like so:
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
int screenHeight = metrics.heightPixels;
int screenWidth = metrics.widthPixels;
Keep in mind this is the absolute screen size. If you're doing a fullscreen game, this will work fine, but if not, you have to keep in mind the size of the notification bar, and possibly the title bar. It might be better in that instance to just get the height of the SurfaceView itself and use it for your calculations.