Question

I developed an application for galaxy note which uses the S pen. I would like to make it available only for galaxy note. my understanding is that the galaxy note has a large, xhdpi screen.

I added this in my androidmanifest.xml :

<compatible-screens>
  <screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="xhdpi"/>
</compatible-screens>

but when I publish it, the gt-n7000 (galaxy note) appears as incompatible because of my manifest.
I tried some other combinations of compatible-screens but it still shows the galaxy note as incompatible.

in fact I even tried this (minsdkversion=3 and all screens compatibles) and the note is still marked incompatible… :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.testnote.testnote"
        android:versionCode="10012"
        android:versionName="1.0.12">
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" 
            android:targetSdkVersion="9"/>
    <compatible-screens>

    <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="ldpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="mdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="hdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xhdpi"/>

    <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="ldpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="mdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="hdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xhdpi"/>

    <screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="ldpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="mdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="hdpi"/>-
    <screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="xhdpi"/>

    <screen android:screenSize="xlarge" android:screenDensity="ldpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="xlarge" android:screenDensity="mdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="xlarge" android:screenDensity="hdpi"/>
    <screen android:screenSize="xlarge" android:screenDensity="xhdpi"/>
</compatible-screens>

<application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/icon">
    <activity android:name="testtest"
                android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>
</manifest>

removing the screen filter makes the galaxy note compatible but I just can’t remove all devices one by one…

Answer 1

if you only want to enable one device, you’re better off manually selecting it (by model name) in the market admin page.