Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Android Widget Size Calculator

Eventually I want to make a much longer and technical post on this issue... but this is what you will get for right now.

Designing Widgets for Android is kind of a royal pain.  Why?  There are a bazillion different devices, with their own unique resolution!  How do you guarantee that an image/widget of one size, will look the same (or reasonably close) from one device to another?

I struggled considerably with supporting multiple resolutions on the widgets that I have created for Android - and the Google documentation on widget design, and supporting multiple resolutions is high technical and not very intuitive to understand.

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