Android Question Designer - Autoscale and screen density

LucaMs

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Takes into account Autoscale the density of the device screen?

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a resized screenshot on the left, designer on the right.

The proportions are not respected: depends it on the density difference?
 

MaFu

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If you use the designer right it should independent from density.
Did you use anchors, designer scripts, dip, %x/%y? It's hard to say without knowing your layout.
 
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LucaMs

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If you use the designer right it should independent from density.
Did you use anchors, designer scripts, dip, %x/%y? It's hard to say without knowing your layout.

After that test, I changed the layout, so it is not useful if I post it now.

I used nothing, just a general script to center the panel in the layout.

Anchors have default values.
 
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MaFu

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The size and position values in the view properties on designer would be interpreted as dip. Therefore the size of your views have always (almost) the same (physical) size, doesn't matter which size or density your device have. A button with a size value of 50dip for example is shown with a size of 9 millimeters (more or less). Why should your dialog been bigger on a tablet as on a 4.5 inch phone?
 
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LucaMs

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Why should your dialog been bigger on a tablet as on a 4.5 inch phone?

It is exactly what I would not; it must not be bigger, it must be proportionate.

Here the difference is even more striking:

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In the Designer, the panel is almost as big as the layout, in the screenshot the panel is... as you can see!
 

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LucaMs

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The size and position values in the view properties on designer would be interpreted as dip. Therefore the size of your views have always (almost) the same (physical) size, doesn't matter which size or density your device have.

This is the problem. If Autoscale took into account the density of the screen that displays the layout, the views would be proportionate.
 
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MaFu

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Sorry, i can't see any problem. If this is not what you want, how should the panel look in your case?
If your panel should have a specific size, use dip and forget the layout size in the designer (sorry for the bug in my last post, 50dip isn't 9 millimeter, it's 7,9 millimeter).
If your panel should suit to the display, use %x/%y and/or anchors.
Or you can mix, you have all possibilities.
 
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LucaMs

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If this is not what you want, how should the panel look in your case?

I would like some sort of WYSIWYG; therefore, in this case, I would that the distances of the sides of the panel from the sides of the layout were proportionate. Can you get this with Autoscale and Anchors (and with more than one panel)? No. You can with percentages; this is the reason of this my "Wish".
 
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