Please post your manifest.xml and please say what target SDK you are
targeting.

On Aug 11, 2:10 am, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a relative Android newbie here.  At first, I thought it was just a
> problem with my code, but I've since discovered that this problem
> applies even to the default, unmodified app templates I can choose
> from when creating a project in Eclipse.  Every app only takes up a
> fraction of the screen.  Here's my layout for an example, but again,
> it affects all of them:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01"
> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";>
>
> <com.google.android.maps.MapView
> android:id="@+id/mapView"
> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> android:enabled="true"
> android:clickable="true"
> android:apiKey="MY_API_KEY"
> />
>
> </RelativeLayout>
>
> The specified screen resolution is, as in the droid, 854x480. It shows
> up in the emulator in horizontal or vertical mode. The map starts
> about a third of the way from the left and ends about a third of the
> way from the right. It starts at the top and ends about a third of the
> way from the bottom of the screen. I have no clue why that would
> happen, as I specified "fill_parent".
>
> I've tried a variety of things. I switched to a linearlayout, as one
> page I saw recommended. I tried spelling out absolute layout widths. I
> tried all sorts of stuff. The map stubbornly remains surrounded by
> black on all sides.  One thing I noticed was that when I specified
> widths and heights that were really large, way bigger than the screen,
> the map showed up as pure white instead of as a map. But it still had
> the black all around the map as described above.  The title bar
> likewise is truncated by the black bars on either side and only takes
> up 1/3 of the width, whether in landscape or portrait mode.
>
> The apps that come by default on the emulator take up the fullscreen,
> but everything I install from Eclipse does not.
>
> I posted this over on Stack Overflow but got no responses, so I
> thought I'd try here.  Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>  - Karen

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