On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Brill Pappin <bpap...@sixgreen.com> wrote: > We have had the same issue with several devices. In our case were noticed > that some phones do not properly report their resolutions etc. > Until now we have stridently avoided doing specific device detection in our > apps, but it has now become necessary to do so. > We have been thinking of publishing an open source library to handle these > cases so we can keep the code separate from the application code and can do > detection/reporting if and when a manufacturer fixes their system. > We're thinking that we'll get a better library and cover more devices is we > share the library with all of you, which serves all our interests. > Is anyone else interested in participating in a library like this?
I have long assumed that eventually we'd need to set up the Android equivalent of "browser caps"-style databases, to detect varying capabilities of devices that are beyond the SDK. If you're going to collect data, I recommend that you aim to be a bit open-ended about what's getting collected -- IOW, don't just limit it to screen size/density/resolution stuff. It may be that we can leverage this project for other device discrepancies, such as "Is it really a phone?" (e.g., Samsung Galaxy Tab not supporting telephony stuff despite passing android.hardware.telephony). If you create a project to collect the data (FluidInfo database?), I promise to contribute data from my fleet of devices. Or, at least the devices that still work. :-) -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1, http://bit.ly/smand2 -- 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
