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Asked: 2026-06-01T10:49:21+00:00

I developed and application and uploaded all the images in the respective drawable folders

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I developed and application and uploaded all the images in the respective drawable folders (different pixels for different desnities).

Now I am confused when it comes to layout. If I used the layout editor with 4.1 inc (thats considered Med screen I guess?) everything looks great.
Now when I use the editor with 10.1 inch which is the tablet, then I see icons very small and the text is small. I have not run the emulator yet.
So I am wondering:

1- why would the text be small although I didn’t specify text size? Shouldnt scalle appropriately? or should I give it a specific size for bigger layouts?

2- Why the icons are small given that I provided the different drawables? I thought it would scale up accordingly.

Please don’t give me the supporting multiple screens link in android as an answer, as I already went through it and still no luck with above. I need your personal advice as I think I am missing something here

Thank you so much in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you do not specify the text size in your layout file Android will take the default value, which is most likely in DIP (density independent pixel) therefore it will be the same physical size on any devices. That should explain why the text looks so small on your 10 inch tablet.

    What I would do in this case is have 3 layouts for each activities and specify the text size for larger devices (given you already like the look on phones) and put them in this folder scheme : 

    res/layout/layout.xml           // phones
res/layout-sw600dp/layout.xml   // 7” tablets
res/layout-sw720dp/layout.xml   // 10” tablets

    Information above was taken in this article. I have this applied in my current personal project and so far it works like a charm.

    Secondly, as far as icons go, I’m no drawable expert but if you provided the same file in each folder (like I think you did from what I understand in your question), it will not make it scale. You’ll have to create 4 difference icons, one for each possible pixel density.

    Information about icon sizes can be found on this page.

    Hope this is of some help to you.

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