On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
> Just to be clear; are you saying that the device won't show in market > because it's a standard DPI and low resolution screen, or are you > saying they'll be blocked just because apps don't explicityly say they > support QVGA? > They won't show because QVGA is a smaller physical screen size than applications are currently targeted for (given a portrait screen of the same width as HVGA, a QVGA screen has less vertical space). If an application is designed to use all of the space on an HVGA screen, there is little that can be done to display it on QVGA except doing a vertical pan and scan, or scaling it down even more so it is letterboxed on the sides. Yuck. > From the docs in the open repo SDK I would have expected apps to be > available and scaled down using the 0.75 factor. > Density is a separate aspect of the screen, and easily adjusted for by the platform. It doesn't cause any filtering on the market. The upcoming blog post and documentation will cover this... I don't really want to spend too much time on it here, reproducing the various tables and such showing how this all works. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
