Question

I want my app to have a specific layout for Android tablets and another for mobiles.

In order to do this, I have created two layout files in two folders, like this:

layout/main.xml

and

layout-large/main.xml

I want the small layout to be applied to Galaxy Note. However, the large layout is applied (which is normal, since its resolution qualifies it as large screen). Since this layout does not fit well to Galaxy Note’s screen size, is there a way to apply the ‘normal’ layout to Galaxy Note?

Answer 1

Galaxy Note has actually a ‘large’ screen. ‘large’ means the size between ~4.5″ and 7″.

So I would recommend to use your tablet-layout only on ‘xlarge’ devices (>7″): layout-xlarge/main.xml

For more info, have a look at this dev guide page.