prevent tablet downloads of app

Question

I have recently been looking at the breakdown of one of my apps on ANdroid Market, and was surprised to see that a number of downloaders were using Galaxy Tabs and a few oth

Answer 1

You can use the <compatible-screens> element to prevent, for example, devices with x-large screens from seeing your app in Google Play.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/compatible-screens-element.html

Answer 2

<supports-screens
android:smallScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="false"/>

But I suspect that it will prevent your app to run on Galaxy Tab but you can gave it a try

Answer 3

This question has been going around a lot recently and it seems that you cannot stop people from downloading and installing your app based on their device-type.

A couple things you can try are:

1. Create an extra set of images for the higher def devices
2. Check the resolution on initial app run and either tell them that their device is not supported (and exit) or warn them that it may not look so good.