How to support all the different resolutions of android products

Question

All the different resolutions of the different Android products are driving me nuts.

My first android app that I wrote was designed so it supported the three commonl

Answer 1

You don't have to do that to support different densities. What you do is create different resources folders:

res/values-ldpi/dimens.xml
res/values-mdpi/dimens.xml
res/values-hdpi/dimens.xml

Then Android will decide which file to use. You can have something like:

25dip

and..

20dip

etc. And you shouldn't care about resolution... there are a lot of different resolutions sizes so it would be a hell to take decisions based on that.

Also, if you use dp instead of pixels, you hardly ever will have to create different dimensions files for each density. Of course, sometimes you have to, but it depends on the app.