Most of the WVGA Android devices I've seen announced are 5" media tablets.
This has *everything* to do with my monitor because it's what the emulator is being displayed on. I'm not saying that the dpi of my monitor should be the same as the dpi of the emulator, what I am saying is if I open an QVGA, HVGA, or WVGA sized window in the native OS the dpi stays the same, therefore if I request a QVGA, HVGA, or WVGA sized screen for the emulator and it opens a QVGA, HVGA, or WVGA sized window I wouldn't expect the emulator to start changing the dpi *as well* without either asking or warning me. Al. On Sep 8, 4:44 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: > > My problem is basically this; If my monitors dpi stays static why is > > the emulated dpi changing between emulator skins? > > It has *nothing* to do with your monitor. It's a choice we made > because these densities (120, 160, 240) are the ones likely to be used > by future devices. Like we mentioned earlier, to keep the same density > as a Dream in WVGA, you would need a 5" display. I doubt that many > phones will ship with a 5" display. > > It's all about *emulating* phone hardware. The density of your > computer display remains the same, but the emulators emulates the > display density of phones by scaling the pixels accordingly. Actually, > if you know the density of your monitor, you can even pass a flag to > the emulator to set it up so that it will have the same physical size > as an actual phone. For instance, on my Dell 30" monitor, I can use a > monitor density of 96 dpi to make h...@160dpi an w...@240dpi emulators > show up with the same physical size as my Dream (holding the device > next to the emulators is a simple comparison :). > > > To me it would make more sense if the dpi of the emulators display > > doesn't change unless the developer explictly states they want to > > emulate a device with a different DPI. > > No. Like I said, 160 dpi at other resolutions means a very different > screen size. I mentioned WVGA/5" already, but now imagine the size of > a q...@160dpi display... it would be very tiny. The point is that it > wouldn't help you at all. > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > romain...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
