I have been reading over this information, forums, developer site, etc. for the past week and still have been unsuccessful in fully understanding how to size images such that things appear acceptable on different sized devices. Certainly there is something I am missing, as this can't be that difficult, can it? If someone could please point me in the right direction, I would be ever so grateful.
I am using qualifiers on the drawable and layout folders in an attempt to handle the various screen sizes and densities. I have created drawable-ldpi, drawable-mdpi, drawable-hdpi, and drawable-xhdpi I have created layout-w320dp, layout-w480dp, layout-w600dp, and layout-w720dp I have placed a copy of the layout I am dealing with in each of the layout folders so I can adjust each as needed. I have placed my graphics that I am testing with in their respective drawable folder. I initially designed my app using a Galaxy Tab 10" and scaled my graphics (png) files in GIMP with a dpi of 320 and sized to fit how I wanted them to look in the 10" environment. I then took the original graphic (unmodified) that was used for the previously mentioned image and made the mdpi version by changing the dpi to 160 and setting the pixel width/height to 1/2 of the previously mentioned image. For the rest, I followed the information from the design guide of... ldpi = .75 of the mdpi hdpi = 1.5 of the mdpi With the first image created being the xhdpi Question 1: Should you scale all images such that the following are true, regardless of the dimensions of each image? - ldpi images should always be 120dpi - mdpi images should always be 160dpi - hdpi images should always be 240dpi - xhdpi images should always be 320dpi Here is an example of what I have done and what specifically is not working. I have a logo that is 400 x 400 and has a dpi of 320. This image looks beautiful on my tablet and the image file resides in the xhdpi folder I then took a copy of this image and scaled it to 200 x 200 with a dpi of 160 for my mdpi version and placed the file in the mdpi folder. When viewing a 10" device in Android Studio, it looks great When viewing a phone 3-4" device in Android Studio, the logo in HUGE! My goal is basically this. If I have an image that takes up exactly 1/4 of my screen on a tablet in the lower left corner, I want that image to take up the same 1/4 of the screen on the smaller devices, not be huge, taking up pretty much the entire screen. Question 2: I thought Android was supposed to down-sample the images of larger than what was needed so it would essentially scale things down for me, with a better goal of providing assets that are close to where they should be, which is what I am attempting to do. Is this not the case? There has to be some formula / step that I am simply missing here so if anyone could shed some light on this for me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you all! Bob -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/390111ec-3b70-4668-8d35-a688a974fe26%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
