I am new to designing interfaces for Android. (I have gone through the Multiple Screens section in the Developer Guide.) What base resolution are you designing your screens for?
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I am new to designing interfaces for Android. (I have gone through the Multiple Screens section in the Developer Guide.) What base resolution are you designing your screens for?
That is based on your app is for phone, or tablet, or both. Currently when designing layout for phone’s app, there are three most basic resolution:
– 320dip x 480dip (normally 320px x 480px phone)
– 320dip x 533dip (normally 480px x 800px phone)
– 320dip x 569dip (normally 480px x 854px phone)
So when you design layout for phone’s app, please remember:
1. Always use dip for width, height and sp for text size
2. A layout fit 320dip x 480dip screen will fit the other two
3. match_parent, wrap_content, gravity… are powerful Android XML layout attributes
4. Choose the orientation (landscape, portrait) carefully, normally an app requires only one orientation
The same goes for tablet’s app, choose the most normal screens and create layout for the smallest one, and stretch the layout on bigger one.
But for both tablet and phone, you should use dimens.xml to store layout values. Reference here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/more-resources.html#Dimension
Good luck with Android nightmare 🙂