Question

The Android documentation being the mess that it is, I have big problem understanding what sizes my icons should be for each of the densities. The ultra-lengthy article( http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html ) on supporting multiple-screen doesn’t provide the information.

So I was going to just guess some sizes when I finally hit that this gem in the “providing ressources” article ( http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html#AlternativeResources ) :

There is thus a 3:4:6 scaling ratio
between the three densities, so a 9×9
bitmap in ldpi is 12×12 in mdpi and
18×18 in hdpi.

Thing is they just introduced the xhdpi density.

So now what is the x in 3:4:6:x ??

EDIT : Added link as asked by commenter

Answer 1

It’s in the page you linked to, but somewhat hidden in Table 1:

• ldpi: 120 dpi
• mdpi: 160 dpi
• hdpi: 240 dpi
• xhdpi: 320 dpi

So it’s 3:4:6:8.