On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > When min level is pre-Donut, I remember there is a common approach to use > drawable-ldpi-v4, drawable-hdpi-v4, drawable-nodpi-v4 (as well as > "drawable") for similar reasons. > > If I have an app with ONLY xhdpi resources and set the minimum level to 8, > then I notice the drawable-xhdpi resources are still picked up (as opposed > to throwing some kind of resource not found exception) on Froyo. This is > convenient but not particularly bulletproof IMHO, not least because the > Froyo device will have no idea what scaling xhdpi implies.
:: smacks forehead :: My apologies. I misread your question. I thought you were saying that your minSdkVersion *was* 9, not was *less than* 9. With a minSdkVersion of less than 9, using -v9 for resources you only want used on 9 and higher is perfectly reasonable. > Now, I haven't tested this, but I suppose that using drawable-xhdpi-v9 will > stop froyo from seeing those resources at all and so give > better-than-nothing runtime exceptions (which in most cases would show up > pretty quickly). Correct. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in DC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
