"Any thoughts on this topic are welcome" okay, this is your thread so shield me if i need it
1] some of that hdpxi stuff or whatever it is ( have not got in to mind yet ) is flat not implemented on some devices by some manufac and no way to call into the api and even fudge it (detection) as some of the devices have partial implementation that do not do what one might expect 2] I got some crude image code going and noticed there are rendering classes with which one may provide scale hints and so on but going to a world where world where every size is potentially available should be a concern of yours and remain a concern 3] What I suggest is write a .png to .jpeg converter in Java to start with and write a few files with it and look at them then write several more images and try to do scaling and anti-alias etc and let that be your starting point ~ that will tell you more than might think On Oct 30, 11:56 am, Chris Stewart <cstewart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm starting the design for an app that spans phones and tablets (2.1 - > 4.0, custom action bar pre-3.0, native action bar 3.0+) and working with a > designer used to the iPhone. Going from a world where he worried about > 3.5" only, to a world where every size is potentially available, is a > concern of mine. > > So I'm wondering, which screen size, resolution, density, do we aim for to > start with? Certainly we'll need to work on each of the layout/resource > variations (small, medium, large, xlarge, ldpi, mdpi, hpdi, etc, etc) but > I'm looking for a reference point to get started. Should we be focusing on > the largest for phones, and largest for tablets, with the expectation that > we can mostly scale down from each of those to the smaller phone and tablet > sizes/resolutions/densities? > > Any thoughts on this topic are welcome. > > -- > Chris Stewart -- 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
