Question

I’m trying to make an android app which has 2 layouts, one for phones and one for tablets.

I have the two layouts made, but I’m having difficulty populating them with content. The phone layout (res/layout) consists of 1 list view which is populated from a database.

The tablet layout (res/layout-large) has 5 separate listviews which all need to be populated.

Basically I need some way of doing this:

if(screensize != large) {
  populateSingleListView();
}
else {
  populateMultipleListViews();
}

I tried using the following code to do it but it doesn’t seem to detect the screen size within the emulator

(getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout &    Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE)

any ideas for a solution?

Thanks

Chris

Answer 1

public void populateList() {
    ListView list1 = (ListView) getView().findViewById(R.id.list1);
    ListView list2 = (ListView) getView().findViewById(R.id.list2);

    if(list1 != null) {
        // Do sth
    }

    if(list2 != null) {
        // Sth else
    }
 }

So in small screen, you have list1 populate and big screen you have both populated.