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Durgesh Patel
Durgesh Patel

Reputation: 326

How to create Android applications for all resolutions?

Hi,

I am a beginner in Android development. I want to create an Application which can be run on different screen resolutions. This App should then run on Android phones as well as Android tablets.

Is it possible? If so, how should I handle the UI design? Just set up different drawable folders?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2689

Answers (4)

Jaya Mayu
Jaya Mayu

Reputation: 17247

It's a challenging task being honest. Most of the iPhone devs enjoy the fixed screen size but we Android devs have to go through this problem. I can recomend few practices that I'm following

  • Try not to use Fixed height and weight as much as you can
  • Stick to Linear Layout if the layout is not complex. Go to relative layout only when its really mandatory.
  • Use Wrap and fill parent than giving fixed sizes..

These are the few I can think of.

Upvotes: 3

ShawnWang
ShawnWang

Reputation: 68

From what I can suggest more, you can use NinePatch graphic for your application so that the images will keep the style when they rendered in different screen size, hope this can help you.

Upvotes: 0

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty

Reputation: 7472

Please go through the Developers guide first. Supporting Multiple Screens provides a pretty good overview of what you are trying to achieve.

Upvotes: 7

Alex Gitelman
Alex Gitelman

Reputation: 24722

Typically you just provide different layouts and resources for different screen densities and orientations as described in Android documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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