[android-developers] Re: Non-square pixels

2012-04-28 Thread SytheZN
Well, the idea was to have the display driver report to Android that the display's resolution is 864x480 instead of 800x480, and then perform bilinear or bicubic resizing on the frames. The device's gpu should be able to handle the scaling without too much trouble by rendering the raster frames

[android-developers] Re: Non-square pixels

2012-04-27 Thread SytheZN
So short of modifying the display drivers themselves to report the larger resolution and translate, there's no way to trick it... Thanks though. On Apr 26, 5:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: No, Android fundamentally has no current support for non-square pixels. On Wed,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Non-square pixels

2012-04-27 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Android will ignore the aspect ratio of the pixels. If your pixels are tall, the entire UI will be visually corresponding taller than normal. I can't imagine what trick a display driver would do to change this in any reasonable way. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at