Re: [android-developers] how to detect difference between 5 and 7 inch screen

The strange thing is that a 5.3 inch and a 10 inch screen  with the

same screen density (800x1250) have a compete different view of the layout.

I have a layout with a lot of 77x160dp icons.

On the 5.3 inch screen is see 2.5 icons and on the 10 inch screen i see 5 icons next to each other (portrait mode)

 Why i do see only 2.5 icons on the 5.3 inch screen?

Faust

2012/4/29 Mark Murphy <mmurphy@commonsware.com>

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Faust Nijhuis <faustnijhuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can i detect the difference between 5 and 7 inch screen.
> Sinds 5.3 (Galaxy note) and 7 inch screen are both large screens and we
> can only use layout, layout-large and layout-xlarge.

On Android 3.2 and higher, you can use resource set qualifiers like
-sw600dp to help create your own size-dependent buckets.

Prior to Android 3.2, at runtime, you can probably attempt to use
screen density and resolution to try to derive the physical size and
choose different resources (by name) based on that calculation.
Accuracy of this approach is far from guaranteed, though.

Personally, I would recommend you try to come up with a UI design that
works OK on both 5" and 7" -large tablets.

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