Re: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts

2012-08-16 Thread Goncalo Oliveira
I am using the designer (the pre-designer era was even worse - hail Xamarin designer), but it kind of bugs me having to do every little thing, even when the only difference is the text size. Like I said, supporting three screen sizes plus a few more for portrait/landscape layouts, it's just a cumbe

Re: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts

2012-08-16 Thread Goncalo Oliveira
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Re: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts

2012-08-16 Thread Steve Sharrock
sday, August 16, 2012 10:09 AM To: Discussions related to Mono for Android Subject: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts Hi there, The application I'm developing needs to support several different sizes, from Normal to Extra Large. I'm using sp for text size and dp for everything else,

Re: [mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Leibowitz
Using the Xamarin designer really helps. All you have to do is open the base layout and then switch to the other sizes from the drop down. If you have the various locks on, it keeps track of which settings are changed on which screen size. It even asks you if you want to apply those changes to the

[mono-android] Screen sizes and layouts

2012-08-16 Thread Goncalo Oliveira
Hi there, The application I'm developing needs to support several different sizes, from Normal to Extra Large. I'm using sp for text size and dp for everything else, as recommended in android's best practices. The thing is... In many places the only thing that changes is the text size, and I reall