Re: [android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-05-22 Thread Simon Giddings
Great Tobias, This is a great help, thank you for taking the time to put this here ! On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:37:20 UTC+2, Tobias wrote: I found this dpi/ppi calculator to be useful: http://www.sven.de/dpi/ It will give you the actual physical dpi. Taking this value and then rounding it

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-05-21 Thread Tobias
I found this dpi/ppi calculator to be useful: http://www.sven.de/dpi/ It will give you the actual physical dpi. Taking this value and then rounding it to the closet dpi bucket (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html) would be a good bet, even though the

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-04-16 Thread Simon Giddings
Thank you Marina for your reply which is much more useful. Even if it means that I am stuck at this point. After all, as independent developers, we are not all sufficiently rich to be able to purchase a number of tablet devices to be able to run our tests. Thank you again Marina, I won't be

[android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-04-15 Thread Simon Giddings
The effort I made did not reveal this result and it certainly does not answer the question ! My question was more general, if you hadn't noticed. Given that most tablets will give a horizontal and vertical pixel size as well as a diagonal size in inches, is it possible to determine the density

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-04-15 Thread Marina Cuello
You can search for/make an app that detects the bucket and install it, if you have access to the device. A quick search gives me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pmc.android.checkscreensize, but there are plenty. Otherwise, as far as I can recall it depends on the manufacturer's

[android-developers] Re: How to calculate a tablets resolution before purchasing the tablet

2014-04-14 Thread Chris
Googling the exact phrase Toshiba eXcite Pro AT10LE-A-10D screen DPI yields in the first result a screen DPI of 300. At least give it an effort. - C On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:28:39 AM UTC-4, Simon Giddings wrote: I am looking at buying a Toshiba eXcite Pro AT10LE-A-10D, which boasts a