On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Please please please do not use Display to do your layout. This tells you > the raw size of the display; it is not directly associated with the UI. > The correct way to do this kind of stuff, always, is to do the layout during > the layout pass. Please don't skimp on this. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you > participate in the framework in the right way here, using the size > information available in the view hierarchy as part of layout, to make sure > you do the right thing!!! Otherwise you can expect to run in to problems in > the future as you encounter devices with new and interesting kinds of > screens. We do a lot of work in the framework to help applications deal > with this, but if you go behind its back with Display and otherwise don't > participate as a good citizen, it can't help and you will have troubles. > Also, if you just want to find out whether you are running on a portrait or > landscape orientation, please just use getResources().getConfiguration() and > look at the orientation there. Again, Display is a low-level facility and > not what you want. DO NOT USE IT. > Thanks.
Feels like I just got in trouble but didn't get told exactly what I did wrong. 1) What is "the layout pass" ? Is this when main.xml gets expanded? Are we expected to maintain a separate layout for every resolution? That's a lot of work if that's the plan. 2) Don't skimp on what? No idea. 3) I find the idea of "new and interesting kinds of screens" very similar to supporting both IE and Firefox. Not fun, lots of dread, and in the end I always have to write special code for one or the other, just like I'm now doing for Android's different resolutions. Sorry if this is wrong, guess I missed something in the docs, got a "how to contend with different resolutions" URL handy? -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- 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
