Great Tobias, This is a great help, thank you for taking the time to put this here !
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:37:20 UTC+2, Tobias wrote: > > I found this dpi/ppi calculator to be useful: http://www.sven.de/dpi/ > It will give you the actual physical dpi. Taking this value and then > rounding it to the closet dpi bucket ( > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html) > would be a good bet, even though the manufacturer could choose a different > bucket. > > Tobias > > Den onsdagen den 16:e april 2014 kl. 09:14:48 UTC+2 skrev Simon Giddings: >> >> Thank you Marina for your reply which is much more useful. >> >> Even if it means that I am stuck at this point. After all, as >> independent developers, we are not all sufficiently rich to be able to >> purchase a number of tablet devices to be able to run our tests. >> >> Thank you again Marina, I won't be wasting my time searching further. >> >> On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:27:10 UTC+2, Marina Cuello wrote: >>> >>> You can search for/make an app that detects the bucket and install it, >>> if you have access to the device. A quick search gives me >>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pmc.android.checkscreensize, >>> >>> but there are plenty. >>> Otherwise, as far as I can recall it depends on the manufacturer's >>> decision which bucket it takes. So no, you can't "calculate" the bucket >>> given the physical screen size and dpi specs. >>> >>> Marina >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Simon Giddings <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> The "effort" I made did not reveal this result and it certainly does >>>> not answer the question ! >>>> >>>> My question was more general, if you hadn't noticed. >>>> Given that most tablets will give a horizontal and vertical pixel size >>>> as well as a diagonal size in inches, is it possible to determine the >>>> density bucket (to use googles term) ie: MDPI or HDPI or XHDPI, etc >>>> >>>> From what you have managed to find, this device would appear to fall >>>> between two buckets - HDPI and XHDPI because >>>> - HDPI screens are ~240dpi >>>> - XHDPI screens are ~320dpi >>>> (according to Supporting Multiple >>>> Screens<http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html> >>>> ) >>>> >>>> So the question remains open .... >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, 14 April 2014 20:21:31 UTC+2, Chris wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Googling the exact phrase "Toshiba eXcite Pro AT10LE-A-10D screen DPI" >>>>> yields in the first result a screen DPI of 300. >>>>> >>>>> At least give it an effort. >>>>> >>>>> - C >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:28:39 AM UTC-4, Simon Giddings wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I am looking at buying a Toshiba eXcite Pro AT10LE-A-10D, which >>>>>> boasts a screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels for a screen diagonal >>>>>> of >>>>>> 10.1. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to calculate the DP value - ie MDPI / HDPI / XHDPI etc >>>>>> ? >>>>>> >>>>>> I haven't been able to find any form of developer support on the >>>>>> toshiba web site, which could have helped. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> 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/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- 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/d/optout.
