I developed an application, Now i want to restrict the application for tablet. Means the application should not run on any tablets. For that I specify the support-screens in Androidmenifest.XML fi...

First of all, I want to apologize in advance since I'm sure that this kind of question has been asked before, but even though I was looking for about 2 weeks at those questions I could not figure o...

I have created different dimens.xml files and placed them in appropriate values folder. I have the following "value" folders defined values, values-large, values-normal, values-small, values-sw3...

What are the primary buckets, or groups, of smallest width (sw) layouts that should be provided in an app? I tried creating buckets around the most common screen widths in pixels: 240, 320, 480, 5...

I'm really feeling confused. From the docs at developer.android.com, it seems in order to keep my images scaled correctly (aspect ratio too) across all current Android devices I need all these layo...

I know that there is a lot of gigabytes of information about my problem, I've almost read all of it - official documentation on developer.android.com, posts on XDA-Developers and here, and many oth...

I have to manage different screen sizes and different densities in my Android app. I am not getting directory structure properly. What I understand so far is there are four types of screen s...

according to http://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screendensities.html The following scale factors are mentioned xhdpi: 2.0 hdpi: 1.5 mdpi: 1.0 (baseline) ldpi: 0.75 I was wonderin...

i have a problem in android development that bored me. my problem is screen size and dealing with that. specially i have some problems with images. for example i want to create a background image f...

I have 4 different sizes for each of the icons I need to use in my app. The problem is My Nexus 7 (1280 x 800) and galaxy s2 (800 x 480) seem to use the resources in drawable-hdpi. How do I force t...

I have an Android application and I want to stop this app installing in Tablet. I have searched many websites. I got some ideas and followed that. But that is not restricting. Here are the some of...

I developed an application. And now i want that my application should run only on mobiles not on tablets. I searched for that and tried as: <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" andr...

The issue I am experiencing indicates that the resource bucket being selected for a given activity's layout XML is inconsistent with the resources being selected from the values folder despite the ...

I realise this topic has been covered to death, and I have read the official and unofficial developer guides on it so know the theory. But I'm still unsure which path to take to ensure my app looks...

When I use different layouts to support different screens , should I use dp or px .

I have been working on my app for several months now, and it is about ready to be released. I have one more thing to do, which is to make it support multiple screens. I have read the the andr...

Here I develop one application which has menu screen with 8 icons on that screen, i have two sets of icon according to size. 1 set icon size is 197 * 253 2 set icon size is 184 * 236 when i run th...

I want to support 600dp screen in my android application. So i have made that layout using layout-sw600dp. But i cannot get the exact layout with the application. I got 800 X 1280 screen size with...

The app I'm developing contains 2 separate layouts: one is for the regular phones, other for small tablets such as NOOKcolor. The decision which is which is made based on the screen width resolutio...

I am following this tutorial link There three types of screens xlarge screens are at least 960dp x 720dp large screens are at least 640dp x 480dp normal screens are at least 470dp x 320dp small...

I have a rough idea of what each of these directories are for, but I'm not really clear on the concept and I have some specific questions. For example, what are the target DPIs for each directory?...