At the moment the target is to support screens with a physical size similar to the G1 (like you said, 3-4") and pixel counts ranging from QVGA to WVGA.
JBQ On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:24 AM, RugBat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd love to get some information about the screen sizes Android is > planning to support in future, and what that might look like. I'm > particularly interested in larger screens, like 8"-10" WVGA. > > I see the roadmap says: > > Beyond Q1 2009 ... Support for WVGA and QVGA > > but what kind of support is that? If this is still phone-oriented, > then I might expect support for 3"-4" WVGA, with the existing UI -- so > the contacts list, for example, would still be a single column. My > project is for a system with a larger screen, about 8"-10", and it > really needs a different UI layout to look good -- the contacts list > with one column but two rows per entry looks poor in the wide screen. > A two-column view would be much better. Also more items per screen, > as my touch area is much larger. > > So: > > * Will Android support this? IOW will the standard apps have layouts > tailored to this kind of screen? > * Roughly when would that be? > > Cheers, > > John > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
