Probably confusion. It's kind of hard to sort out information from those documents. In fact I found that emulators and real devices were picking up different dimens.xml files I was using for setting font sizes than what the documentation claimed. Fortunately this had also been discovered by other developers on Stackoverflow and with provided solutions.
Samsung seems to be a major culprit in designing devices that are tricky to create emulators for. They really need to supply emulator images for the devices that don't fall in line with Android standard pixel densities. However as I read recently Google is changing the licensing to prevent this. If you are familiar with the hardware industry they do this to differentiate their different models which benefits marketing but not developers or consumers. On Friday, November 23, 2012 10:37:30 AM UTC-8, RichardC wrote: > > What does android.util.DisplayMetrics: > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html > > give you? > > > On Friday, November 23, 2012 6:04:50 PM UTC, Fran wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I have an emulator instance that seems to be reporting wrong resolution, >> but I am not sure if it is a problem of the emulator or may be also a >> problem in an actual device with same setup since I have no one. I use >> this code to get the resolution: >> >> getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth() >> getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight() >> >> The emulator tries to be like a Samsung Galaxy Tablet with 10'1 inches >> screen and 1280x800 resolution, with software buttons. The problem is >> that putting it on landscape mode (pressing ctrl+f12, you know), and >> executing my app, it reports following resolution: >> >> 1238x752 >> >> I would understand that 752 due these 48 pixels being reserved for the >> software buttons, but the 1238 has no sense at all: software buttons are >> put just in one position depending on device orientation, not both... >> >> Do you think it is just an emulator bug or may I found this situation on >> actual devices? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance, >> >> >> >> -- 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
