Strange, I thought I wrote a reply here some days ago. One more try... Thanks Dianne, it's good to know that drawable-nodpi is an option for this. I promise to think twice before using it.
I think it's all a matter of taste. Some people actually prefer larger images on larger devices. A good example when this makes sense is the virtual keyboard which is bigger on a tablet than on a phone. Generally, when you feel like you've had to squeeze in the interface on a phone screen, it makes sense to blow it up a bit on a tablet. Currently, to keep the images proportional and avoid pixelation, I have limited the size of my app to max 480x1024 on hdpi devices and 320x1024 on mdpi devices. I'm doing this using Display.getWidth()/ getHeight() and Window.setLayout(). It looks pretty good on the Galaxy Tab but a bit too small on the Xoom. On 27 Maj, 01:13, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:35 PM, nadam <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to do this because it's what my client tells me to do. Not my > > decision. They have designed the app for phone size only and want it > > to scale up for larger devices (or not run on larger devices at all). > > The app contains many specially designed images, some that should > > cover the whole screen and some that should fill the width of the > > screen (portrait mode only) while maintaining the original aspect > > ratio. > > You will need to put them all under drawable-nodpi and manually scale each > image as appropriate to get this different effects you want. > > And again, I would very strongly discourage this. You are setting yourself > up for pain. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- 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
