[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Al Sutton
Given the recent announcement by Kogan is it worth putting effort into trying to support QVGA? From the -developers list it sounds like very few apps will have a usable UI in QVGA, so maybe it should be dropped as an option? Al. Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: That all sounds good, thanks.

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Two points: -Android 1.0, which is the one that Kogan must have been using, didn't support QVGA in its built-in-apps nor did it have framework support to help 3rd-party apps adapt to different densities. Fixing that is on the roadmap. -As for 3rd-party apps, it's potentially a chicken-and-egg

[android-porting] Re: SurfaceFlinger and HW integration.

2009-01-17 Thread Chen Yang
Hi Mathias: Just interested to know, what's the relationship between surfaceflinger and pixelflinger? Meanwhile, is there some document on sufraceflinger and pixelflinger? Thanks. -- Chen On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Mathias Agopian pixelflin...@google.comwrote: On Fri, Jan 16,

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Al Sutton
It's easy to allow HVGA apps to run on things with a resolution greater than HVGA, but trying to down-scale any HVGA system to QVGA usually ends up with mangled icons, unreadable text, and problems with layouts, so I'd suggest unless it's a next to zero cost thing in terms of time and/or

[android-porting] Re: Need Help in compilation

2009-01-17 Thread Hugo Darwin
I've a similar problem that does not seem to be related to any missing tool/compiler/parser in Ubuntu 8.10. Though the Ubuntu 8.10 default gcc is 4.3.2, but I have 'apt-get install gcc-4.2' $ TARGET_ARCH=x86 TARGET_PRODUCT=eee_701 DISABLE_DEXPREOPT=true CC=gcc-4.2 CXX=g++-4.2 make -j2

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Dave Sparks
Thanks for clarifying, Dianne. On Jan 16, 4:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I'd like to qualify that a little -- this work is to introduce support for different densities in the system, targeting only QVGA and WVGA screens that are approximately the same physical size as the

[android-porting] Re: SurfaceFlinger and HW integration.

2009-01-17 Thread Dave Sparks
SurfaceFlinger is the surface compositor and PixelFlinger is the blitter. On Jan 17, 5:08 am, Chen Yang sunsety...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mathias:     Just interested to know, what's the relationship between surfaceflinger and pixelflinger?     Meanwhile, is there some document on

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-17 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Given the recent announcement by Kogan is it worth putting effort into trying to support QVGA? The work isn't being done for Kogan, so there is no reason for them to impact it. From the -developers list it sounds like