Note that I believe for the time being devices that can change their screen size sufficiently to change it into a different size bucket will not be considered compatible.
Anyway, yes, the approach is basically that -- you need to plumb some new event to the window manager to tell it the screen size has changed, and then have it re-evaluate the size and do the appropriate changes similar to orientation changes. On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM, G2 <grego...@gentil.com> wrote: > There are other people (including me) who are interested by such > feature. Read this: > > http://groups.google.com/group/rowboat/browse_thread/thread/5fd05e9299e3b3ce > > Dianne might comment more but I would say that yes, it's probably the > right direction - if I had more time, I would search on this > direction. I also think that it's not super complex because of the > architecture, all apps are Window based. Just imagine the screen size > modification event as a rotation event. My guess is that it's a 100- > line patch not a 5000-line patch... But somebody needs to write it. > > Bottom-line, if you allow me to give you a piece of advice, understand > how rotation works and apply the same idea. And please post your > results if any! > > Grégoire > > > > On Dec 17, 2:01 pm, kfpan <ronaldthepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am porting android to a netpc platform. One requirement is for the > > pc to support different screen sizes without rebooting the machine. > > For example, if I plug in a larger size monitor, I should be able to > > reconfigure the screen so that new display fits the larger screen, > > with restarting Android. I have managed to change the frame buffer > > size. But I am not sure how to notify WindowManager to update its > > window with the new size. I am going through WindowManager.java and > > WindowManagerService.java. Is this the right direction? How can be re- > > init the window screen with the new size? Is there an event that can > > achieve this? > > > > Thanks, > > Ron > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- 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. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
