Currently I'm used to developing on a small screen and now tablets and TV are coming slowly but surly to the market... Now the dilemma is not all apps look great magnified on a larger screen. The larger screens allows us to combine different activities into one since they fit and make sense sometimes. The issue is when you combine activities your existing app for cellphones become a mess trying to support the new layout... How can we manage smartly these new options?
Here are my thoughts about splitting my app in two: 1. Implement large/xlarge layouts on my existing application. Con: Brings new complexities to existing activity code. Pro: I'll have the popularity numbers, downloads, rating, etc... 2. Create a brand new application for the large/xlarge screen sizes. Con: No popularity numbers, downloads, ratings... etc... Pro: A chance to start up fresh and create everything optimized for these screens. What are the issues/questions I have about providing all screen sizes support into one app: 1. Making the app one nice juicy app that supports it all will be huge and unnecessary waste of space for cellphones. Unless at installation all different folders needed for larger screen dimensions are excluded from installation. 2. How to open the correct activities for the correct screen sizes? For example I would like to open MainActivityNormalScreen when phone is running on a normal screen. Or MainActivityLargeScreen when running on a device with large screen. I know I can code some helper classes and such but things become a little tricky and messy. What are your thoughts in respect to this subject? Would you try to keep the app as one to support all these different screen sizes? Or split them? -Moto -- 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
