Sounds like the LogicPD Zoom2 dev kit is donut based. If they update to the latest donut build you'll most likley see you app zoomed as opposed to bordered. The android-x86 guys reported black bordering on the AndAppStore client on an pre-last friday donut build which is what started me down this path.
Al. On Sep 8, 7:22 am, "Howard M. Harte" <hhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 7, 3:41 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > > > Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > > There shouldn't be any until WVGA is officially supported in the > > > platform. That is planned for 1.6, but 1.6 is not yet officially > > > supported, and there is a fair lag from when the platform software is > > > done to new devices being released with it. > > > Uh, no offense, but HTC Magic devices shipped with Android 1.5 right > > about when the SDK became available. In Spain, IIRC. You may recall > > modest gnashing of teeth over this. > > > While the core Android team may know timelines vis a vis product > > launches, we out here in the hinterlands have to plan for another > > possible "here's the SDK! better support it tomorrow!" release. > > > > Afaik, the Archos tablet is based on 1.5, and thus does not use the > > > official screen support in the 1.6 platform. I have no idea what > > > exactly they are doing, but unless it is a 1.6-based device, it would be > > > of questionable value for someone wanting to follow the standard platform. > > > If it sells in decent quantity, or looks like it might, whether it is > > "the standard platform" or not means little -- we have to know how to > > support it. That means some of us will need to get our grubby > > medium-sized hands on it, to test apps and advise others. In fact, the > > possibility that they *do* deviate from the norm is all the more reason > > some of us will need hardware, since we will not be able to rely upon > > emulators as much. > > You can download a WVGA emulator skin for the Archos from > appslib.com:http://appslib.com/developers/index.html?disp=full > > I tried this today with Al's 1.6 SDK. It reproduced exactly the > problem that I was having testing an app on the LogicPD Zoom2 > development kit which also has WVGA. My app showed up in the upper > middle of the screen, with black background all around. When I > changed the AndroidManifest.xml uses-sdk to: > android:minSdkVersion="4" > > The problem went away, and now my app uses the entire screen > properly. I tried also adding the following to the > AndroidManifest.xml: > <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" > android:normalScreens="true" > android:largeScreens="true" > android:anyDensity="true" /> > > Then I changed back to minSdkVersion="3" to see if the app would still > work properly, but it did not. > > Is there a way to make my app use the entire display area, even if I > keep the minSdkVersion="3"? > > Thanks, > Howard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
