Getting my head around Android, I’ve sort of trouble understanding support for multiple
devices. I’ve gone through the dev-docu, now for the clear-up:
The idea behind using dp is, that e.g. a button has the same ‘real-world’-size, independent of the actual screen-size, right?
If so, that means, I provide the images in ldpi, hdpi and so on. That results in a button, that has always the same size.
If still correct, I understand that now, that my buttons always has the same size, I should provide different layouts, because on a small device, there might only be space for two next to one another, where on a larger device there’s room for three.
If all of the above is correct, my question would be, how I deal graphics-tool-wise with it. Say I have a button 100px x 100px at 300dpi, what sizes and dpi’s would that be for the new documents in e.g. Gimp for the different screensizes?
Thanx in advance for any smoke-lifting!
Marcus
After some more study, it seems that the graphocs-tools DPI are actually the one referred to in e.g. the baseline. So to create a baseline-doc, you indeed create a document 470 x 320 pixel in size and a resolution of 160 dpi. The rest goes from there.