not taking correct dimens folder for 7" and 10" tabs

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I have developed an app for phones. Now I need to support it to tablets as well. I need to change few dimensions of few views. I had kept 4 values folders for hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi and xxxhdpi. Now for a 7" tab I have kept values-sw600dp and for 10" inch tab I have kept values-sw720dp. But any changes I make in the dimens folders of the 600dp and 720dp does not change when I run in the tab. The 7" tab takes the values of values-hdpi folder. How do I support for both screens and tabs?

Please suggest.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '17 at 08:38

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If you actually have a tablet that has a smallest width of 600dp (values-sw600dp), then it should prioritize that over that over values-hdpi (see here). Are you sure your tablet is actually 600dp?

answered Feb 22 '17 at 08:38

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I am testing in lenovo pb1-750m which is a 7" tab and has a resolution of 720*1280. – Sahana Prabhakar Feb 22 '17 at 09:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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My 7" inch tap get resourses from sw320dp folder, You need use

dp = px / (dpi / 160)

to find right size qualifier.

This link have morе information: Application Skeleton to support multiple screen

And answer from https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html?hl=ru#DeclaringTabletLayouts The proper way to declare tablet layouts was to put them in a directory with the xlarge configuration qualifier (for example, res/layout-xlarge/).

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answered Feb 22 '17 at 08:43

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Ok I am using Lenovo pb1-750m. I get 548.57 as the dp value. – Sahana Prabhakar Feb 22 '17 at 09:46
Then sw540-dp - your qualifier, and app will prefer it. – Ridami Feb 22 '17 at 09:57
When I do this, it is affecting my phones. Phones arent taking values-xhdpi amymore. – Sahana Prabhakar Feb 24 '17 at 05:59
I kept 3 folders sw320dp , sw540dp and sw720dp. It is working pretty fine with tabs. But now the phones are getting affected. It takes sw320dp folder dimens. I want to support both tabs and phones – Sahana Prabhakar Feb 24 '17 at 06:09
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use for tabs -large-hdpi, -large-xhdpi, -large-xxhdpi – Ridami Feb 27 '17 at 08:54
And documentation say -xlarge right variant for tabs – Ridami Feb 28 '17 at 10:01

not taking correct dimens folder for 7" and 10" tabs

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