Yes, I meant the Galaxy Note, the "Tab" was a typo.
If you do the math for its 5.3” WXGA (1280 x 800) screen, you'll find
that it fits only one of two necessary criteria for a "Large" screen and
should therefore be "normal" (or at least that's how I'm reading that
chart).
Anyway, things being what they are, I do hope you find the screen size
qualifiers useful.
The part about "not telling anyone" was of course a joke, because the
official word is that those qualifiers are evil, should not have been
there in the first place, and even though they are, should never be used.
-- Kostya
20.10.2011 0:58, Doug пишет:
On Oct 19, 3:25 am, Kostya Vasilyev<[email protected]> wrote:
19.10.2011 11:03, Doug :
Well, in my case, it is desirable if not perfect. :-(
I work on a very high profile app and I've been in contact with a
Samsung rep who is encouraging us to support the Galaxy Note for the
home screen that is having problems with layout on its display. I
have been assured that it will be shipping with Gingerbread and being
"large". (They are also testing the app on a device that they will
not share with us.)
According to the chart here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#range
.... the Galaxy Tab should be a "Normal" screen, if I'm reading it right.
I'm dealing with the Galaxy Note, not the Galaxy Tab. It's not
released yet, but Samsung is contacting developers to help them
support the unusual display parameters they are using. The original
Galaxy Tab has its own problems which I'm not exactly trying to solve
right now!
But I guess they want apps to look like they do on a tablet - do you
know if they're going to include a magnifying glass?
They aren't saying that they want apps to have a tablet experience on
this device. They have simply pointed out that the app I'm working on
doesn't look so great in one circumstance. That's because the Galaxy
Note is using our "large" screen layouts even though it doesn't have
the effective size in dp to back them up. What I'm trying to do is
force our smartphone "normal" sized layout instead of our "large"
tablet layout on this one device for this one screen. If I can just
find a resource qualifier (valid for Gingerbread) that targets this
one device, I'd just stick the layout I want into that configuration
and be done with it.
With this resource qualifier for screen dimension, does anyone know if
it is width x height or the other way around, or does it matter at
all?
It's "width x height" (switched in land mode, too). I guess it's been
taken out of the documentation.
And... psst... you didn't hear about this from me :)
I won't propagate this, but you did post this on a public forum! :-)
Actually, I did by including your text in my reply... anyway, this is
helpful and I'll give it a whirl.
Doug
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Kostya Vasilyev
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