I found the answer to this on stack overflow here: *getting the screen density programmatically in android?*<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3166501/getting-the-screen-density-programmatically-in-android>
Use getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density or context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density to get: 0.75 - ldpi 1.0 - mdpi 1.5 - hdpi 2.0 - xhdpi 3.0 - xxhdpi 4.0 - xxxhdp On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:54:28 AM UTC-5, firebreather wrote: > i'm attempting to draw pixel density and resolution independent controls > to the screen for my game. > > if I use screenWidth in declaring the size, the control's size will vary > with resolution. if I just use a certain number of pixels, the control size > will vary with pixel density. > > assume i need canvas.getDensity(), as there is no action like > > > canvas.drawCircle(cx,cy,60di,paint). //di: density independent pixel > > canvas.getDensity() is returning 0, however. I saw on a different post a > suggestion of disabling the GPU to fix this. I don't want to disable the > GPU on my user's phones' though, even if I knew how. how do I get around > this? > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
