Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have migrate my WP7 application to WP8 platform.
Now, if I start debugging my application in WXGA Emulator (screen size should be 768 × 1280). I have got
Host.Content.ActualWidth=480
and
Host.Content.ActualHeight=800.
Is it normal behaviour? Why WXGA emulator have screen size 480×800?
Yeah, that’s how WP8 should work.
The zen of WP8 multi-resolution is to make developers to do as little work as possible to account for different resolutions. Other platforms dump all the hard work on developers to use physical pixels for different resolutions. Instead WP8 uses logical pixels of 480×800 and 480×853 to account for different resolutions.
App developers really need to only do two things. First is to use Grid relative design (and not Canvas absolute design) to help with the 480×853 logical resolution. Second is to make sure to use media assets that work well for different resolutions. For example, you don’t want to play a 720p video on a low-res screens, and you don’t want to stretch a 240 pixels wide image on an HD resolution screen.
I wrote about this topic extensively including code samples and how the relevant APIs behave @ http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/What%27s_new_in_Windows_Phone_8#Multi_resolution