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Asked: 2026-06-01T20:20:32+00:00

I have gone through all of the Android docs about handling multiple screen sizes

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I have gone through all of the Android docs about handling multiple screen sizes but I still haven’t been able to find an answer to this question or how to handle this.

If there are two phones that have the same dpi level (such as both being hdpi) I can provide one resource for them and set the layout parameters as such:

<ImageView
android:id="@+id/icon"
android:layout_width="94dp"
android:layout_height="94dp"
>

The “icon” in this instance is large enough so that it will scale down to fit that layout in all cases. In an ideal world, I would assume that the icon would appear the exact same size on all hdpi devices, however when I tested it out on a LG G2x and a HTC Sensation, the image is smaller on the Sensation. So is Android always just using a factor of 1.5x when calculating the size the hdpi image? Is there something I can do to guarantee the size will be the exact same on all hdpi devices? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer was that the system does use a standard multiplier for each dpi level (1.5x for hdpi for example). In order to get around this I just used the .xdpi and .ydpi values of DisplayMetrics and do my calculations off of those real values.

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