Drawable folders for high resolution handhelds

Question

I can\'t figure out how to produce drawables for the new \"high-res\" handhelds like the Galaxy Nexus, One X, Galaxy S3 etc that have a resolution of 1280x720 or higher.

Answer 1

Well, as I said above I can't find any handhelds with Android on it that's got a resolution of 640x960. So I based all my images on 720x1280 instead and put the 640x960 resolution stuff in a large-hdpi folder.

Now my app looks great on the latest Nexus, the Galaxy S3, HTC One-X and all of the other newer hires models. I think the tablets when looking for resources will go for large first, then hdpi where they will find the 2x scaled images.

This is what I ended up with:

xhdpi: 720x1280

large-hdpi: 640x960

hdpi: 480x640

mdpi: 320x480

ldpi: 240x320

Answer 2

I have a Galaxy Nexus, and I use the xhdpi resource folder (at a 2.0 scaling factor) and the images look great. Do you have an example (screenshot preferably) of what issue you're having? If you're hardcoding spacing and sizes in pixels, then yeah, it'll probably look weird at higher densities. Are you trying to hardcode a background image 1:1 at a specific pixel size? If so, that's never a good idea on Android.