> > 2. The Web designer decides that the original design was nonsensical >> and comes up with a design that works better on a range of browser >> window dimensions. The Android equivalent of this is more or less what >> Ms. Hackborn was hinting at (I think) in her replies on the two >> threads -- use a different design. >> > > Yes, trying to make fixed size bitmaps into "a UI that splits the screen in > half" is simply the wrong approach. >
"Half-the-screen" is a conveniently simplified example just to discuss the technicalities. Al's screenshot of the facebook app provides a concrete real-world example. There are six possible actions, and the UI design maps this on to a grid of 3x2 buttons that fill the screen. Though this design might look quite bold over a large screen, I think that in the context of this discussion, its the kind of UI that a developer might reasonably be called on to implement; calling the design nonsensical is to bypass the issue. I apologize for a lack of clarity in my previous post, but I'm "not trying to make trying to make fixed size bitmaps into 'a UI that splits the screen in half'". I'm trying to ensure that the image resource with the most appropriate density is selected by for display by a variably sized view. The 2d Canvas APIs are functionally pretty equivalent to SVG, and can be > used to generate the same kinds of images. I do this a lot - it's liberating to have the option of resizing resources precisely to the required dimensions, but it comes with a lot of effort relatively speaking (handling caching and view resizing are two significant areas of additional work). Though I broadly agree with Mark's sentiment; designers want to export graphical assets into UIs that, for their complexity, the developers don't want to touch - let alone render in code. Tom. -- Tom Gibara email: m...@tomgibara.com web: http://www.tomgibara.com blog: http://blog.tomgibara.com twitter: tomgibara -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
