hmm this is very strange because parts of the system seem to behave properly (see my note about resource resolution).
I'll do more tests tomorrow and file bugs if necessary. thanks Xav On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote: > > Xav, > > If you use the NotepadV1 source (from the notepad tutorial - > http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html), and run it > you get what I'd expect to be landscape mode (i.e. the mode the device boots > in which is 800 wide by 480 tall). > > If you add android:screenOrientation="landscape" to the notepad activity and > re-run it you get what I would expect to be portrait mode for the device > (i.e. screen rotated 90 degrees to it's 480 wide by 800 tall). > > What seems to be happening is that although the boot mode appears to be > landscape (width > height) it's actually registered as portrait mode (height > > width), so when an app specifically asks for landscape more it gets the > rotated. > > Given the resolution I doubt it's going to be a big problem for many apps, > but it's just something that I was curious about when I saw the default > layout. > > Al. > > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Xavier Ducrohet > Sent: 16 August 2009 00:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: App Market Community is expanding > > > I just tried it again and it looks ok to me. > It does boot in landscape which is unusual but when resolving an app > resource that uses orientation, it looks ok to me. > Home is also behaving correctly with the app drawer on the side in landscape. > > Xav > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On other thing. I've just been playing with the screen orientation and >> noticed something that looks weird. If you specify Landscape you get what I >> would have thought of as the portrait mode (i.e. short wide by long tall), >> and vice versa. >> >> Does anyone know if this is right?, because I can see it causing some >> compatibility issues if it is. >> >> Al. >> >> -- >> >> * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >> >> ====== >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >> >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >> subsidiaries. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Xavier Ducrohet >> Sent: 14 August 2009 23:51 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: App Market Community is expanding >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Murphy<[email protected]> wrote: >>> But some stuff doesn't seem fully baked yet. They talk about a 48px "TOP >>> menu", which would appear to be the Android status bar from the diagram. >>> But the emulator skin they supply only gives us the 25px status bar, >>> like any other skin. Makes me wonder if there are any other hiccups we >>> need to worry about, at least in terms of the emulator skin matching the >>> hardware. It'd suck to build your app one way aiming for their device, >>> upload it, and then find out it still isn't right. >> >> That because the skin is only just a screen size def (800x480 in this >> case), with some background drawn around in the emulator window. >> >> To have their custom status bar, they would have to ship a real SDK >> add-on, which would include both an emulator system image and the >> skin. >> I'm guessing they aren't ready to ship the former. >> >> I hope they do plan to ship an SDK add-on, as it would be the best for >> developers wishing to target this device. >> >> Xav >> -- >> Xavier Ducrohet >> Android Developer Tools Engineer >> Google Inc. >> >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android Developer Tools Engineer > Google Inc. > > > > > > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Developer Tools Engineer Google Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
