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Rafi
Rafi

Reputation: 1922

Android - Is the xlarge layout size ever needed for phones?

In my app project for school, I need to use Fragments to make the app's UI scalable on as many phone screen sizes as possible. I'm currently doing it for small, normal, and large screen sizes.

However, I'm a little iffy on whether I should do it for xlarge screen sizes. Isn't that size category only for tablets? Are there any phones or phablets that are in the xlarge screen size category?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Knells
Knells

Reputation: 837

As per what Google Android Developers guide thinks: xlarge screens are at least 960dp x 720dp

A quick search on Google finds a few phones larger than this, E.G.: ASUS FonePad at 1,280 x 800 pixels. That's a relatively low density screen (189 PPI), so quite a few phones probably top that one.

EDIT: The highest I've found so far is the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 at 2560×1440 more than double the minimum for xlarge layout. Also worth noting this is a relatively popular smartphone so is a more likely use case.

Upvotes: 3

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