I have tried creating a drawable folder called res/drawable-480x320 and res/drawable-800x480 thinking that this would do the trick, but it doesn't work either.
Stephen On Jul 4, 3:44 pm, Tom Gibara <m...@tomgibara.com> wrote: > > 2. The Web designer decides that the original design was nonsensical > >> and comes up with a design that works better on a range of browser > >> window dimensions. The Android equivalent of this is more or less what > >> Ms. Hackborn was hinting at (I think) in her replies on the two > >> threads -- use a different design. > > > Yes, trying to make fixed size bitmaps into "a UI that splits the screen in > > half" is simply the wrong approach. > > "Half-the-screen" is a conveniently simplified example just to discuss the > technicalities. Al's screenshot of the facebook app provides a concrete > real-world example. There are six possible actions, and the UI design maps > this on to a grid of 3x2 buttons that fill the screen. Though this design > might look quite bold over a large screen, I think that in the context of > this discussion, its the kind of UI that a developer might reasonably be > called on to implement; calling the design nonsensical is to bypass the > issue. > > I apologize for a lack of clarity in my previous post, but I'm "not trying > to make trying to make fixed size bitmaps into 'a UI that splits the screen > in half'". I'm trying to ensure that the image resource with the most > appropriate density is selected by for display by a variably sized view. > > The 2d Canvas APIs are functionally pretty equivalent to SVG, and can be > > > used to generate the same kinds of images. > > I do this a lot - it's liberating to have the option of resizing resources > precisely to the required dimensions, but it comes with a lot of effort > relatively speaking (handling caching and view resizing are two significant > areas of additional work). Though I broadly agree with Mark's sentiment; > designers want to export graphical assets into UIs that, for their > complexity, the developers don't want to touch - let alone render in code. > > Tom. > > -- > Tom Gibara > email: m...@tomgibara.com > web:http://www.tomgibara.com > blog:http://blog.tomgibara.com > twitter: tomgibara -- 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
