Android device sizes and resolutions

I use the following 4 sizes:


  1. drawable-small: ignored, hardly anyone uses phones like that
  2. drawable-normal-mdpi: older phones with about 3 inch screens, 480x320px resolution, e.g. MyTouch
  3. drawable-normal-hdpi: most phones with 3 to 4.3 inch phones with 480 wide screens: Droids, Nexus, etc.
  4. drawable-large: 5 and 7 inch tablets: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7
  5. drawable-xlarge: 8 to 10 inch tablets, eg. Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy 8.9 and 10.1



Corresponding folders are created for layout, e.g. layout-mormal-mdpi and so on.

The distinction between normal-mdpi and normal-hdpi is very important as these phones have totally different sizes.

In the picture below you can see these sizes being tested with the same content.



by Uki D. Lucas on Monday, July 25, 2011
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