On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Varun Tewari <[email protected]> wrote: > We have some applications already in android market. We have managed to > support Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab2 for some of them. I was just wondering > how i can publish my applciation as our existing application have 1.6 nd > onwards support. So my application is already visible for XOOM and Tab2. > What should i do to have one build for all Phone Devices and one for Tablet > Devices? But for Tablet i just want to see the Tablet Build. As two builds > can be confusing to User. How can i achieve this with out changing > Application Name?
You can't, AFAIK. Android will always support upsizing an app to larger screens. It will not support downsizing an app to smaller screens. Hence, you can create a tablet-specific app by saying you only support xlargeScreens (and maybe largeScreens) in <supports-screens>. Phones will not see this app, since Android will not downsize it to small and normal screens. However, if you *also* have an app that works for phones, tablet users will see that app as well, since a phone app can be upsized to tablet screens. So, you can: -- Have only one app that dynamically configures itself (which is the point behind fragments, and why we're all hoping for the fragments backwards-compatibility library that Ms. Hackborn is working on) -- Have two apps, where the phone app doesn't look silly on a tablet, but where the tablet-specific version is substantially different (e.g., more features and paid versus an ad-sponsored free app for all sizes) -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.4 Available! -- 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
