iPhone6SPlus: 5.5" 1242x2208 414x736 414x736 3 On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, in reply to Ralph's post I included these notes about mobile > metrics: > > > ...it seems that LC's resolution-independence works very much like > > that of browsers (probably using the same OS APIs under the hood), > > using logical metrics rather than physical. > ... > > I just ran a quick test to see how well that works: > ... > > Diag Physical Web LiveCode PxDensity > > ---- -------- -------- -------- --------- > > LG G Stylo Phone: 5.5" 720x1280 360x592 360x592 2 > > Amazon F7 Tablet: 7.0" 600x1024 600x976 600x976 1 > > This morning I had some testing to do so I charged a couple older devices > and ran my test on each to get: > > Samsung S4 Phone: 5.0" 1080x1920 360x640 360x640 3 > Samsung S1 Phone: 4.0" 480x800 320x508* 320x534 1.5 > > So now we have data from four devices with very different specs: > - four different resolutions > - four different physical sizes > - four different pixel densities > - four different Android versions > - three different vendors > > ...and in each case the screen metrics as understood by web browsers match > those LiveCode gives us (with the one minor exception in the oldest phone, > noted in the footnote below). > > It would be good to know if any of you testing with iOS devices get > results that don't like up as well as these. > > But from what I've seen so far, on Android (and in my limited testing on > iOS devices a few months ago) it looks like LC's resolution independence is > very reliable for object placement across devices with very different > display characteristics. > > > * I don't believe there's a version of FireFox available now for a phone > that old (I keep it in its original state with an older Android version for > testing), so the web test used the browser Samsung included on those > models. The difference of 26p is likely a bug (maybe counting the status > bar height twice?), one I've not seen in newer browsers. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
