mdpi image is too small for 10" android tablet

Question

I have drawables for each density as ldpi,mdpi,hdpi and xhdpi.

Problem: Both 10\" tablet device (1280x800) and a handset device 320x480 uses medium density

Answer 1

I include some resources in drawable-xlarge, and drawable-large folders, in addition to the drawable-hdpi folders. This works for me.

Another alternative, is to scale an image in code directly, which I do with the following code:

Drawable scaledIcon = new BitmapDrawable(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(myImage, pxInt, pxInt, true));
myImageView.setBackgroundDrawable(scaledIcon);

It is not a good idea to scale a lot of images in your code (using this method), as I think it is resource intensive to modify the images on the fly like this. I do use this in some cases, where the image I am using may not be a standard size (and I want it to fit right always).