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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

