Sorry about the confusion. The emulator supports pretty much any resolution you want, it's just that the current platform only support HVGA.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > As the emulator ships with QVGA skins and the documentation at > http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html gives details > details of how to use them, the impression given by all of the > documentation seems to be that what you get from the emulator in QVGA > mode is what you should expect. > > Maybe someone should update the docs and/or remove the skins from the > emulator if they are currently as useless as you say. > > Al. > > Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > The work isn't being done for Kogan, so there is no reason for > > them to > > > impact it. > > I think you missed my point; The only manufacturer who had announced > a > > QVGA device (i.e. Kogan) has abandoned shipping it claiming that > > "One of > > the potential issues is the screen size and resolution", given this I > > doubt anyone else is going to start design and manufacture of a QVGA > > based device and so is it worth trying to support a resolution that > > isn't going to be used? > > > > > > By saying that the work wasn't being done for Kogan, one could > > probably assume that there are others interested in it. :) The issue > > Kogan has with screen size and resolution is that the platform > > -currently- doesn't support the screen size and resolution they were > > using. > > > > > > > > > How would they know? Nobody has run an application on a version of > > > the platform with actual QVGA support. We intend that most > existing > > > applications will work decently on QVGA, and that is very much a > > goal > > > of any such work we do on the platform. > > The emulator supports QVGA, so it's easy to see what an app would > look > > like in QVGA mode. > > > > > > No it isn't. I think you are missing my point. The platform > > currently DOES NOT SUPPORT QVGA. Running the emulator with a QVGA > > screen gives you a nice demonstration of that. The density work that > > is being done will address this. > > > > > > I had to make modifications to the AndAppStore client to include > > smaller > > icons to make it work on a QVGA screen, and the comments on the > thread > > at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/16f0dcece645c57/065ad77d39d8d336?lnk=gst&q=QVGA#065ad77d39d8d336 > > < > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/16f0dcece645c57/065ad77d39d8d336?lnk=gst&q=QVGA#065ad77d39d8d336 > > > > (particularly joshvs'), I think QVGA is something that many > developers > > may have already written off. > > > > > > As I already said, a key part of the density work on the roadmap is to > > allow existing applications to run on the new screen configurations. > > > > The basic take-away here is: nobody should be making hardware to run > > Android that is anything besides HVGA, because that is the only > > resolution currently supported by the platform. And no developers > > should be spending their time trying to make their apps run on > > anything besides HVGA, because the support for other screens is not > > yet there so the system won't behave correctly for them on anything else. > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
