Hi Dianne, Thanks for your answer!
I can do the work of adjusting the built-in applications (Dialer, Messaging, Contacts, etc') to a small 2.2" QVGA screen myself, but what about the non built-in applications? I think that the problem is that the framework auto-scales application resources according to the screen size (small, normal, large) and density (low, medium, high) in order to preserve the same physical size of the element across different screens sizes, aspect-ratios and densities. In addition, on the Supporting Multiple Screens page on Android Developers site (http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ screens_support.html) there is a table that states small screens as 2.6"-3.0". Can I overcome the fact that application developers have built their applications to be run on a small screen 2.6"-3.0" and not a 2.2"? Please note that QVGA resolution on a small screen device, actually derived a medium-high density graphic. For example, QVGA 2.2" screen derived 180dpi density. I did not see an option of small screen and medium-high density in the table. Can you please confirm that this is not an issue? Thanks, Motty On Jan 17, 3:33 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > QVGA screens are officially supported by the platform (there are Android > devices with such screens shipping, even); however, nobody has yet > contributed code to the open source project to make all applications and UI > elements work on such screens. In particular, tweaks (or less ideally > small-screen-specific variations) for layouts that don't fit and low density > graphics. You will need to do this work yourself. > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Motty <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I want to port Android on a QVGA 2.2" screen device. > > From what I read on android developers site (http:// > > developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html) and from > > playing a bit with the emulator, it seems that there might be some > > problem in porting it to such a small screen. > > > Q: > > 1. Can you please confirm the minimum supported diagonal for a QVGA > > screen? 2.6"? > > > 2. If there is no "out of the box" support for such a small screen, > > are there any changes that I can easily do in the framework in order > > to support it? Or, is my only choice to go over all the applications > > and change them accordingly? > > > 3. What are the implications on apps downloaded from the Android > > Market? Is declaring small screen and medium density enough? > > > 4. Will I encounter a problem in getting Google permission to put the > > Android Market application on such a small screen device? > > > 5. Does Google plan to extend the small screen support in future > > Android releases? > > > Thanks, > > Motty > > > -- > > unsubscribe: > > [email protected]<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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