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What is the best approach for developer, who published an application for the phone device, which looks nice up to 480x800px, but is extremely ugly on big tablet screens (800x1280px).

  • First option is to manually remove device by device from android market list (but there is about 819 devices)

  • Second is setting android:maxSdkVersion in manifest - this will exclude all 3.x devices which are tablets only, but there will remain 2.x tablets + it will not run on 4.x devices

  • Last option is to check the version and resolution on the application start-up

Any tips? You can of course argue that we should make it compatible with the tablets, but it is considerable effort we cannot spend on this.

Regards, STeN

STeN
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  • If you only want it used on certain resolutions, check the resolution on app startup (install?) and display a message that it's not compatible if that is the case. – KevinDTimm Dec 13 '11 at 14:39

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Google addresses this in the SDK documentation:

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/tablets-and-handsets.html

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