I've not paid much attention to the Honeycomb SDK issues since I figured
it's better to wait until something final is available, but I am
definitely wondering if we will be getting any specific information or
guidance from the Android folks regarding developing for device with the
larger tablet form factors that are starting to be announced, if not
actually available yet (Xoom, G-slate, et al).
Mainly, it seems like many applications would be better off being
redesigned or offered in separate versions for tablets as opposed to
simply being handled by different layouts within a single app. A device
like the Xoom has a resolution of 1280x800, but this is on a 10.1-inch
screen where there's a lot of physical real-estate, making it hard to
simply scale existing layouts.
For example, my genealogy app is mainly about displaying textual
information at increasing levels of detail, which I now do by launching
activities that display the data as an overlay. I can see that, on a
tablet, I could probably make better use of the display by showing the
data in a side-by-side fashion, and so on. There's just a lot more space
to make use of.
Perhaps this has all been thought of and will be covered when the final
SDK is released. But I would also like some guidance on how to handle an
increasingly fragmented array of devices.
Doug Gordon
GHCS Software
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