Question

I have an app that I am trying to make more tablet compatible. In the phone version I have the theme set to no title bar which I thinks looks the best on the phones. Only problem is in Android 3.0 the menu buttons are moved to the title bar(action bar). I was wondering if it is possible to have it have a title bar on the tablet but still have it be no title bar on the phones. Any help would be great.

Thanks

Answer 1

There’s a method for detecting a tablet in the Google I/O app source which looks like this:

public class UIUtils {

    public static boolean isHoneycomb() {
        // Can use static final constants like HONEYCOMB, declared in later versions
        // of the OS since they are inlined at compile time. This is guaranteed behavior.
        return Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB;
    }

    public static boolean isHoneycombTablet(Context context) {
        // Can use static final constants like HONEYCOMB, declared in later versions
        // of the OS since they are inlined at compile time. This is guaranteed behavior.
        return isHoneycomb() && (context.getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout
                & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK)
                == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE;
    }
}

In your Activity you can simply call

if (!UIUtils.isHoneycombTablet(this)) {
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
}