For well over a year now I have had two APKs for one app. One for
devices with 7" or smaller and one for 10" tablets. The latter uses
Fragments and has all displays on one screen while the other uses page
views. I just found out that the app is not available for the Nexus 10
because of the qualifiers I have set. Here's the problem, the Acer 500
which I have is 160 dpi so for the 10" tablet version I had qualifier
for xlarge screen size only and ldpi and mdpi for density. The Nexus 10
is 1280x800 but has a screen density of 300 dpi and THAT excludes it.
So I should use xhdpi density for it. Of course may also see 10"
screens with hdpi too if not already.
What I ran into with the two APKs is that some devices are thought to be
xlarge even if 7". So there apparently is an overlap. When I
introduced the 10" tablet version until the qualifiers were sorted (or
actually implemented on Play) some 7" people were getting the 10"
display and cropped on the right and bottom. Not good. I think if I
add hdpi and xhdpi the same might happen again with the Nexus 7 which is
also currently excluded. And I really don't want to just update the
qualifiers and possibly break a lot of customers who even use the app
for their business. And actually the 10" tablet version will work nice
on TVs too but they say that tvdpi isn't really necessary.
I know other developers have also requested a tool or ability to check
what is excluded when we post to Play. That could even be a check when
uploading the APK but before publishing it. This seems to fall on deaf
ears probably because there seem to be relatively few of us doing such
specific things. Thoughts?
- Brian
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