Android Question Dealing with screen resolutions

[wl]

Hi,

In my app I was using the Listview (AddTwoTextBoxesAndBitmap2): it seemed great on both my Phone as my tablet, but it lacked the possibility to cope with long texts.

Therefore I started to use the CustomListView, but here I run into trouble while displaying the two labels one below the other:

result.AddView(iv, 5, 10, 40, 40)
result.AddView (lbl1, 60, 5, textWidth, 14) 'Text height of label 14
result.AddView(lbl2, 60, 5 + 16, textWidth, 12) 'Tekst height of label 12

On my tablet the texts are one below the other, but on my Phone texts overlap.

How can I deal with this ? What's the reason ?

Thanks

 

[Erel]

See this tutorial: Supporting multiple screens - tips and best practices

 

[wl]

thanks Erel, I will need to reread the tutorial.

But still I find it strange that when I used absolute positions and the same font on 1 device the tekst overlaps and on the other there is plenty of room between the labels

 

[klaus]

Can you post a small example project showing the problem ?

Best regards.

 

[nfordbscndrd]

thanks Erel, I will need to reread the tutorial.

But still I find it strange that when I used absolute positions and the same font on 1 device the tekst overlaps and on the other there is plenty of room between the labels

Have you looked at this: http://www.b4x.com/android/wiki/index.php/Designer#Introduction ?
It explains why text looks different on different size devices such as a phone and a tablet.

 

[Erel]

The code you posted is wrong. If you are using v2.7 then you should see a list of warnings about it. You should never set pixel values without 'dip' unit.

 

[wl]

Thanks nfordbscndrd and thanks Erel: I will have a look at it !

Thanks Klaus: while peparing a demo I had a look in the code of the customlistview, and I think I figured it out. I attached the demo.