On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ash McConnell <ash.mcconn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > They must not provide the same amount of space (even if you consider > device > > independent pixels) as all units use dp. > > There is no such concept as "the same amount of space". You have no > guarantee over the dp size of an app widget. Your dp values are > converted into cells; different home screens on different devices will > have different dp sizes for these cells. And, if you support the > Honeycomb/ICS resizeable app widget, the user can change the size to > whatever they want. > > Your app widget layouts need to take into account modest changes in > the number of available dp for width and height, or more-than-modest > changes if you're letting the user resize the widget. > > Thanks Mark, that has made things a lot more clear. I would like to deal with the most typical scenario where the user will use the "normal" 4x2 allocation (in my case). If I can get the height in DP I can use removeViews and addView to swap in a layout with smaller font size and less margin (if the height in dp is below a certain limit). I'd like to have the text as big as possible within the constraints, I could always have the smaller size with less margin, but where's the fun in that :) Is there a way to reliably get the height/width? From searching on StackOverflow it seems to be difficult with a widget with the only suggestion being wait for x ms and then measure, which seems a little hacky. Thanks for your help All the best, Ash -- Awesome Widgets <http://www.siroccosoftware.com/awesome> Online Racing Championship <http://onlineracingchampionship.com> Twitter <http://twitter.com/AshMcConnell> -- 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
