Question

I have developed an application that is to be run on android Tablet as well. It is working on android phones perfectly. When I ran it on Tablet, it did not expand on whole screen. It just covered a area equal to a mobile device. I want that it also runs on Tablet and cover the whole screen as running on mobile device. Do I have to create two different designs for each type and at run time before using design, I would have to check it whether it is android phone or table?

Answer 1

Add the following block of code in your manifest file after the <uses-sdk>tag:

<supports-screens
    android:xlargeScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true"
    android:largeScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:smallScreens="true" />

Note: Add the android:xlargeScreens="true" attribute if and only if your minSdkVersion is equal to or more than 9.

In addition to adding this block of code, follow this link. Also suggest you to go through the following links:

Supporting Multiple Screens

Supporting Different Screen Sizes

Supporting Different Densities

Hope this helps.