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Test your Android app in the Emulator, with different screen-sizes

Posted on the 14.06.2011 at 22:14 by Rasmus Burkal

In you AndroidManifest.xml you can specify the screen-sizes your app supports, by using the supports-screens element.
Here is an example:

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

In your AVD (Android Visual Device) Manager, you have defined the visual device(s) for your Android Emulator. Here the “Skin” attribute defines the screen-size, you can select between: QVGA, WQVGA*, HVGA, WVGA* and WXGA.

To help you test the supported screen-sizes for you app, here is the mapping between the supports-screens element and the Emulator Skins attributes:

  • smallScreens = QVGA
  • normalScreens = WQVGA*/HVGA/WVGA* (depending on density)
  • largeScreens = WVGA*
  • xlargeScreens = WXGA

Read more about the supports-screens element in the Android Developer Guide.

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