Please don't use concrete screen sizes, as written in the documentation
these are very strongly discouraged and deprecated:

http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html#AlternateResources

There are many other configuration attributes for the screen that will allow
your app to actually work well across all devices.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:02 PM, yidongsoft <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am writing layout file for Droid Milestone. I set the directory to
> layout-854x480, but it doesn't work at all. I then use:
>
>                // get the screen size
>                DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
>                getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm);
>
>                Log.i("DDDD", dm.widthPixels+"x"+dm.heightPixels);
>
> to print the screen size and then get 569x320. I then change the
> layout directory name to layout-569x320. Then the layout file works. I
> have a G2 and know it's 480x320. And I see the MS screen contain more
> pixel in wide direction. But can any one help and explain why? Thanks!
>
> p.s. I am using SDK 1.6, eclipse+adt
>
> eclipse Build id: 20090920-1017
> adt info: 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404
>
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