Which part of Android is in charge of picking a correct resource profile?

Question

I have a weird problem.

Before you come to an idea to lash out on me, I am working on a custom Jelly Bean. Therefore the \"usual nice approaches\" might not work her

Answer 1

There are so many hacked devices in the market like Micromax Funbook which have a screen size large but uses the mdpi resources trust me I have worked with them and it was very frustrating.

As you mentioned your app is working great with every other device it's just not working with this praticular tablet you may need to implement such kinda solution posted here

http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2011/07/new-tools-for-managing-screen-sizes.html

You must read the last segment on this page it will surely help.

to summarize it here the suggested approach is to create a seperate layout with the different name using the different resources altogether.

You are driving the resource picking process here not the system. which may be time consuming but will surely help.

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate();

        Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();
        if (config.smallestScreenWidthDp >= 600) {
            setContentView(R.layout.main_activity_tablet);
        } else {
            setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
        }
    }
}