The screen resolution of an Android device
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Resolution specific subfolders of res directory crash the app
I have created a Phone & Tablet app for android and have the generic layout folder populated with the layouts, I then created two additional folders in the res directory with the suffix -sw600dp & -sw720dp and it is not working and the app is…

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Splash Screen Image in android
Is it necessary to resize images of the splash screen for different screen size or its ok to keep one image with the highest required resolution and add it to the drawable folder and use it as it is.
Also I have the same doubt for the clipArts that…

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Android: App not visible on 1920x1080 and 1280x720 resolution devices
I have developed a game and uploaded it on Play Store. But its not visible on 1920x1080 and 1280x720 resolution mobiles. The manifest file is as follows:

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Android: Restricting devices of particular resolution from downloading the app from play store
I have a app which I am supporting for following resolutions only:
1280X800(Nexus7)
1024X600(Samsung tab2)
1280X800(Samsung Tablet 10”)
1280X720(S3, Micromax HD)
1920X1080(S4, HTC 0ne)
Now, I want the rest of the android devices whose resolution…

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Android - Setting for Tablets
I am pretty new to Android. I wanted to know that if i want to design a tablet application then what changes i want make in the existing code which i designed for normal phone.
I did the Research and found,
res/layout/my_layout.xml //…

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why my sign up page not coming same as all the mobiles in android?
My actual task is to design a sign up page is like this.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_c-SDSO63obTXdXMm4yZmRkUDQ/edit?usp=sharing
I did some coding that is

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What is the dimens res folder for a Nexus 10?
I'm trying to use values from my dimens file to target the Nexus 10. I have the folder set up as values-sw720dp-xhdpi but this doesnt work. I have also tried values-sw720dp-xxhdpi but still this doesnt work.
What is the correct implementation of the…

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Folder name for 7" hdpi tablet Android
I have Tablet with 7" screen (600×1024) with hdpi (240 dpi classification).
I have created folder layout-sw600dp. But it's not working in this resolution tablet.
Its working fine with 7" screen (600×1024) with mdpi (160 dpi classification).
Which…

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Android: resource qualifiers database
Customer says something like "layout looking bad on my ". Where can I get the corresponding resource qualifiers: is that phone small-xhdpi or large-mdpi?
I can guess the DPI qualifier by googling DPI value for that phone but what about screen size?…

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How can I see if the device is a 7inch tablet
I am trying to set up tabs in my actionbar but on a 7inch tablet the tabs dont fit so they get pushed into a dropdown view in the actionbar.
They show up in tabs if I abbreviate some of the words in the tabs but I dont want that to always be the…

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Android - correct dimensions of images for multiple screen sizes
Despite reading much of the Android developer docs on the subject, I'm still struggling with supporting multiple screen sizes/densities. One question I have is what size my images should be. I've read it's a good idea to start by designing images…

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Handling image resource size on Android
I am kind of confused about managing graphic resources in Android.
Tried to read this doc but It only confuses me more. Can anyone give me some example of how should I handle the following case?
Lets assume that I have an image in my layout that…

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What is the correct way to position controls in a RelativeLayout so that it displays the same
What is the correct way to position controls in a RelativeLayout so that it displays the same irrespective of Device Resolution.I guess this is clear enough,If we use dp values in giving margins like android:layout_marginTop="17dp" It displays at…

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Memory overflow android
UPDATE : 10/12/2012
After making with images:
WeakHashMap> objReferenciaDebilBitmaps;
Bitmap imagen = datossss.getImagen();
objreCReferencias.RegristrarReferenciaDebilBitmap(imagen, objReferenciaDebilBitmaps);
my…

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adding image resources and using one as a layout background
so im working on my first app and i have a question about images
first off, theres 4 different drawable folders, do i just drop an image into one of them? what is the proper way of adding a resource image?
secondly, i know theres a bunch of…

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