It's not that, it's that making assumptions about you having all of the available space on the screen and that it will never change after you start will make your application very rigid. For example, in the future when there is a soft keyboard that gets shown, wouldn't you like your application to resize to account for that? Or if someone does a device with a little larger screen but some kind of system controls that can be placed in that area, wouldn't you like your UI to grow to use that space if those controls are hidden?
Assuming that you can just look at the screen dimensions when you initialize and count on that being constant for the rest of your life just doesn't work. It isn't even true on Windows where the use can drag the taskbar up to make it larger and stuff. So the right approach is to use what the system gives you, write a layout view that does its layout based on the size it is given, and then whenever the display configuration changes you will just get called again with a new size and can layout to that. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Sundog <sunns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Could somebody on the thread perhaps explain why this is so rigid? > So many > people are asking for such a very simple thing. I'd really like to > understand. " > > It's a Java thing. ;) You VILL fit ze paradigm! Resistance is futile! > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
