Hi all, (as you read through this) -- I am not hard coding ANY dimensions or sizes for anything -- All elements use wrap content and match parent -- I have read over the Android development for different screen sizes so many times I can almost recite the page (not to say I haven't missed something, so if I have, please point it out).
I am literally on weeks of trying to figure this out and have read (many times) every resource I can find and am still clearly missing something. I am attempting to get image assets to stay in proportion to the screen on different devices. This seems very fundamental and there is tons of documentation, but I am still struggling and would greatly appreciate some assistance. I have created 5 sets of images which look like the following. ldpi - dpi of the images is 36 x 36 mdpi - dpi of the images is 48 x 48 hdpi - dpi of the images is 72 x 72 xhdpi - dpi of the images is 96 x 96 xxhdpi - dpi of the images is 144 x 144 I am designing in Android Studio and using one of the 10" xhdpi tablet devices to design against. I have a square image that I am placing 4 times (roughly evenly spaced) at the top of my screen and when viewing the screen, the image takes up roughly one inch or so. To accomplish this, I created an image that is 325x325px with a dpi of 96 and it looks fantastic. The problem comes when I try to view my app on smaller device with the same density of xhdpi. In these situations, the image is HUGE and takes up far more space than it should. I believe I understand the difference between pixel (tablet that is 1200 px x 800 px) and dip/dp. Given that the dimensions in pixels are 1200 x 800 and the density is xhdpi, the dimension in dp would be 600 x 400. This is where I am getting totally lost. Clearly I am missing something and there must be a way to keep images proportioned correctly when you go from a small device size to a larger device size when both use the same density (for example, a 800 pixel x 600 px 3" phone and a 2500 pixel x 1600 pixel 10" tablet which both have a density of xhdpi). I do also realize that this is only 1/2 of the equation and the use of additional layout folders with qualifiers will be needed to potentially make adjustments for different screen sizes. That part I am ok with but I am losing my mind over trying to figure out how to get my image assets to look the way I need. Any help would be OH so much appreciated. One final note. I have seen several posts where people have stated, "Just use xhdpi assets and Android will scale everything for you." Yes, I know this is a performance issue, but even trying that, it certainly is not scaling things down for me. One thing I have noticed is that if I set the background property of a layout to an image asset, it seems to display as I'd want on every device, regardless of size or density. However, the issue I am having is with image views specifically, so does my problem exist there? Thanks! 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/d9c3d809-d511-4800-8234-bc2512b4869e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
