Yes, this is how the system works for drawables. Here a quote from the Android documentation:
The system handles most of the work to render your application properly on > each screen configuration by scaling layouts to fit the screen size/density > and *scaling bitmap drawables for the screen density, as appropriate*. > (Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#support) The only real problems arise when: 1. Your only drawable available has a too low resolution. Upscaling on a high density screen will make it look slightly blurry. That is especially noticeable when your app icon is right next to a hi-res icon. 2. The Android system's scaling introduces unwanted artifacts. By providing your own set of icons you have full control over the appearance. This is especially an issue with 9-patch drawables, since the slice markers may bleed into the image area due to interpolation and the markers themselves may not be "readable" anymore for slicing up the image. So especially in case of 9-patch drawables you probably want to provide different versions for each supported screen density. On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 7:56:14 AM UTC-7, RLScott wrote: > > I tried using a clearly incorrect icon size for a launcher icon (386 x > 386), and the icon was automatically down-sized on my Galaxy Tab 4 to look > the same as all the other app icons. So I wonder why we need to provide 5 > different launch icon sizes? Is this resizing behavior one that I can > count on? (By the way, I am only making side-loaded apps, so Google Play > Store requirements are not an issue for me.) > > Robert Scott > Hopkins, MN > > -- 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 --- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
