Question

I’m developing an Activity with a simple LinearLayout with a button. When I try the activity on my hardware (WVGA 480×800 screen) the activity only fills the standard size (480×320) while the OS itself fills the whole screen.

What could be the issue.

Thanks,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#FFF"                    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">  
        <Button android:text="@+id/Button01" android:id="@+id/Button01"                          android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

I believe you have to specify in the manifest file that you want to allow the application to scale to the size of a larger screen.

See: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#attrs for more info.

There is a part about <supports-screens> attribute in the manifest that might have what you are looking for.