"Unfortunately Android does not have the same luxury to do this" Where did you hear/read this? And, it's the opposite, it *does* have that luxury.
Unless you specified in your app's manifest file that Android should not try to scale up your app's UI, Android will try its best to fit your app in the larger screen. However, scaling images won't look that pretty... they tend to get fuzzy. But everything else, text, vector graphics, etc., will look fine. But it's always best to design apps for a given set of screen-sizes. Some apps, even when they're scaled up properly and neatly, could greatly benefit of a UI redesign if they have more screen real-estate available. On Apr 17, 12:39 pm, Christoffer Pettersson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > First of all, I just want to say I am a software developer, but I am > not an Android developer. However I usually walk around and think on > stuff. > > AndI've been recently thinking all the news concerning how fragmented > Android is getting, with different Android versions and tweaks by > different phone manufacturers, and then for developers you have > different size formats. An example would be that HTC Tattoo might not > be able to run everything that another phone might run, due to > different screen formats, etc. > > And now the Android tablets are coming with different Android versions > and different screen sizes, all from 5" to 11". Will this make > developing Android applications harder? > > Apple has it safe here since they manufacturer all devices that run > the iPhone OS: the pods, phones and now the pad so they can easily > control and make sure not to loose any customers by introducing a new > device. When Apple introduced iPad they had to make sure that all the > old iPhone applications would work on the iPad. They solved that > neatly by saying that iPhone applications will simply be stretched out > to the double size and it would fit on the iPad. Unfortunately Android > does not have the same luxury to do this. > > As I said, I am not an Android developer. Just a curious software > developer :) > > For you guys who work actively in the Android community, does Google > have a solution for this? > Will you be able to run phone applications on the tablets? Is there a > bridge between the devices? > Are there any standardizations or will Android development become even > more fragmented? > > All comments and views are welcome. > > Cheers. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
