> Right - so if for my existing market apps I'm happy to stick with the > 1.5SDK (which I am) and if I can code/design the apps to cope with the > different screens (which I can), then I can stick with 1.5 and ignore > the new manifest elements?
That I am not sure about, see below. > I was concerned that if I do this the framework on (e.g.) a WVGA > device will know that my app is 'old', and will therefore start > automatically scaling up my assets. Or, that for QVGA devices the > market might decide that my 1.5SDK app can't possibly support the > screen and it won't even be offered for download. I misunderstood your original question. I thought you were wondering how to support multiple screen sizes without having multiple APKs on the market. You should be able to support as many screen sizes as you want with a single APK, via resource sets. This *may* need to be supplemented with new 1.6-specific manifest entries -- that part is unclear to me at this time. If you have an existing application, 1.5r3, with no layouts specifically for WVGA/QVGA, WVGA and QVGA devices may make autonomous decisions of how to interpret the layout rules you have provided (which presumably were written for HVGA). Up until recently, I'd've said that it would just try to use the assets as-is and interpret the layout rules as written. So, WVGA might work just fine "out of the box" if you used RelativeLayout and such (versus, say, AbsoluteLayout), but QVGA might look awful because your assets were too big. Some of the recent comments on this thread suggest that the core Android team has added more sophisticated smarts than that, perhaps to try to allow more applications to run acceptably without modification, and perhaps also to deal with screen density and such. The details of how all that works has not been discussed much beyond this thread, and presumably is the meat of Ms. Hackborn's upcoming blog post. Like you, I'm awaiting more details. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
