Post your layout, maybe we can spot something ... On Friday, June 8, 2012 5:09:15 PM UTC+1, Tommy wrote: > > If I insert a picture will it come through on these posts? I am so > confused as to why this isn’t showing up correctly on phones that say they > have a “normal” screen > > > > *From:* android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto: > android-developers@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Dianne Hackborn > *Sent:* Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:28 PM > *To:* android-developers@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [android-developers] Android DPI problems > > > > You shouldn't be thinking about dpi at all. > > > > You will currently encounter devices with only 5 densities: 120, 160, 213, > 240, 320. > > > > Every device will have one of those densities; 217dpi and 220dpi are not > valid densities. You will care about this pretty much only for your > graphics, though the platform will scale your graphics if it does. > > > > This is also relevant for text sizes and units used in layouts, but in > those cases you just use "sp" or "dp" units and it is taken care of for > you. So for your layouts you should basically not care about densities at > all, just do your layouts in "dp" units as if you were on a medium density > screen and let the platform take care of it for you. > > > > I strongly discourage the use of other units like "in" and "mm" -- many > devices do not report the correct true physical density, so you > unfortunately can't count on them working correctly. Fortunately you > shouldn't need to, because 99% of the time you want to be operating in > density units not true dpi. > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Tommy Hartz <droi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone, I am a little confused on something. I have created multiple > layouts for different screen sizes. The problem I run into is that on my > HTC > Inspire I have a "normal" screen with ~217dpi, on the droid X it reports to > have a "normal" screen but it has ~220 dpi. When I run my app it pulls the > right layout but the images on the screen have huge spaces in between them > yet on my HTC everything appears how it should. How can I avoid this issue? > It is incredibly frustrating. > > -- > 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 > > > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- > 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 >
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