[android-developers] Re: Supporting Galaxy Note Issues Due To It Displaying Itself as a LARGE screen layout.

Don't be mistake, Galaxy Notes are popular... There was an article on
Verge or one of the other sites about the # sold and, personally, I've
seen many Notes here in Singapore.

On Jan 20, 10:05 pm, Chris <chris.fou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks
> I will just exclude , can't find any other stupid devices like the
> note.
> Kindle sales are in the 100's per day , not doing all that change for
> a few Galaxy Note's.
>
> It's a shame Google did not sort this mess out on an earlier release ,
> it's becoming a real pain
>
> On Jan 20, 1:45 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Chris <chris.fou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am having issues support the Galaxy Note
>
> > > My app runs on Android 2.1+ , so I can't use the DPI based screen
> > > differentiation , and the Galaxy note is 2.3.5 I believe.
>
> > > My app has a normal display size which works great for small/normal ,
> > > I also have a large display layout that has been working great for
> > > 7-10inch tablets like Xoom and Amazon Kindle Fire.
>
> > > However this Galaxy Note has thrown a spanner in the mix.
>
> > > It is displaying itself as a Large , but my display does not fit on
> > > the screen.
> > > The normal layout looks fine on it.
>
> > > Any ideas how I can make that device use the normal display ?
>
> > You can't. You need to create a -large set of resources that work well
> > on the Galaxy Note and Kindle Fire. The XOOM can use -xlarge
> > resources, if the revised -large ones do not work well on a 10"
> > screen.
>
> > > at the
> > > moment I am tempted to just exclude it from compatible devices - but
> > > if there is an elegant workaround it would be better !
>
> > Bear in mind that your issue is not strictly one tied to the Galaxy
> > Note. I would expect you to encounter similar problems on
> > similarly-sized devices.
>
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