Question

I’m designing an android app with a minimum SDK version of 8. I have currently been testing it on a emulator running an about 4 inch phone…

I recently got a Nexus 7 and ran it on that. I thought it would just enlarge the screen (button and text including) so it was basically magnified… it wasn’t

I thoroughly googled it and came up with using different layout sizes (I am using Eclipse by the way) so I made a ‘layout-large’ folder but I got the following error and no design view of the screen layout would show

'It looks like you are using a render target where the layout library does not support the tvdpi density.

Please try either updating to the latest available version (using the SDK manager), or if no updated version is available for this specific version of Android, try using a more recent render target version.

Exception raised during rendering: Index: 2, Size: 2
Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log'

How can I solve this? I don’t want to change the minimum SDK from 8

Answer 1

The tvdpi seems to have been implemented in Android 3.2 (meaning SDK level 13). If you want to target the Nexus 7 displays, with alternate resources, I suggest targeting large screens instead of tvdpi. You shouldn’t have to change your minimum requirement of SDK level 8 as it doesn’t make sense to target TV densities when aiming for Nexus 7, but maybe that’s just me.

There is another similar question here on Stackoverflow with a great answer: How to create different layout for Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7?

Also visit the Android developers design guidelines and specifically Designing for Multiple Screens for more information. The Android guidlines is a very good website that I use consistently.