The market compresses the uploaded images heavily. Just check the size of the images in your Market-Publish site of your app. They are quite small and tons of JPEG artifacts show up. Even if you uploaded PNGs, the images will become JPEGs, heavily compressed ones.
On Oct 16, 11:48 am, westmeadboy <westmead...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Oct 14, 10:49 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Strangely, the market asks for 320x480 screen shots then reduces them > > in size by a few pixels, and sort of smudging them in the process. It > > seems like it would have been smarter to ask the developer to deliver > > the properly sized image so that this pixilation wouldn't be > > necessary. > > I haven't noticed that difference in dimensions but my screenshots > were undergoing some kind of dithering (smudging?) after uploading. > Then I realised that I had uploaded them as 8-bit. So I resubmitted > them as 24-bit and the quality is now as it should be. > > So for some reason, whatever software they use to convert 8-bit to 24- > bit doesn't give very nice results. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
