Hi, WVGA should be 800x480 pixel resolution.
I would hope that the emulators would all draw pixel-to-pixel on whatever screen you're running on. That means they would all technically get the same pixel density -- the host machines. However, the idea is the simulate hardware that is of a variety of different sizes at the exact same pixel resolutions. This means the pixel density values are arbitrary in the emulator -- do they all match a 4" screen? A 5" screen? Not sure, but 160 seems to be a reasonable density for a WVGA screen on a standard size handset. It translates to a real world (using 800x480) screen size of 5 inches wide by 3 inches high (in landscape mode). Unless that's the size it shows up on your screen, it's just a value to test with. Now, if you look at the ratio of 520 x 320 you'll see that it's (almost) identical to that of 800x480, implying that some sort of scaling may be taking place within the emulator to mimic the actual physical sizes (inches) rather than pixels. It's a little strange and really reenforces the need to test on actual devices to see what their numbers will look like in the field. On Sep 16, 9:05 am, xinit <gerard.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > Something looks wrong to me. > I select, WVGA emulator, > > Then code that uses the DisplayMetric class I return the following > values > > Density: 1 > Width In Pixels: 320 > Width in Pixels: 520 > XDY: 160 > XDX: 160 > > This is not what I would expect. > A WVGA device should be 800x420. > > My second observation: > > I also noticed that the physical size of the WVGA is far bigger than > that of the HVGA. > > Considerting that the Width in Pixels for HVGA returns 320 I would > therefore expect to see that XDY value SMALLER on the WVGA than on the > HVGA because it is saying that it contains the same amount of pixels > in width, so due to the physical size being bigger the density of > pixels per inch should be less. > > Does this make sense ? > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
