Question

I am currently working on an android app that is causing me some trouble. My app is heavily dependent on images that are fitted correctly to the screen they are being displayed on. Unfortunately things like the FWVGA/WVGA resolution difference 854 vs 800 is causing me some real problems, and that’s aside from the other sizes/densieites and resolutions.

I don’t know if I’m just missing the point here but how do I go about having my app display correctly on both the resolutions without either “squashing” my images or cutting bits off of giving me black bars etc?

There doesn’t seem an immediately present solution where I can just have it display a different image automatically from the drawable folder for the right screen.

I have tried using displaymetrics but unless i have my manifest claim that it supports all screen sizes, the android OS will in fact “lie” to my app about hte current resolution.

Someone please tell me there is an easy solution.

Answer 1

how do I go about having my app display correctly on both the resolutions without either “squashing” my images or cutting bits off of giving me black bars etc?

IMHO, you start by revisiting your GUI design:

My app is heavily dependent on images that are fitted correctly to the screen they are being displayed on.

That does not work particularly well anywhere, IMHO. Windows (including browsers) can be sized to any desired size by the user, for example.

There doesn’t seem an immediately present solution where I can just have it display a different image automatically from the drawable folder for the right screen.

Because Android devices can have any number of screen dimensions, just like windows and Web browsers can have any number of screen dimensions. Android does let you choose images based on density (e.g., -hdpi) or screen size (e.g., -large), but these do not map to resolutions, nor should they.