I've been working on another update to my app and am finally getting around to adding support for landscape. I use 7 layouts for EACH "screen" in my app, so as you can imagine, this is time consuming. I spent two days (around 10 hours per day) getting everything looking just right.
Today I decided it was time to also look into the Kindle Fire's specs since I also sell my app on Amazon. Naturally, the resolution isn't really close to anything else, so once again I am looking at creating a dozen more layouts.
But I got to thinking.... I think I am approaching this wrong in the first place. What I have been doing is increasing the button sizes on the higher resolution devices to fill the screen. I initially figured this was the best approach, but I remember a comment on my app not too long ago that their only complaint was that the buttons were a bit large on their tablet.
I think I need to do this differently now. Now I am thinking that I should just stick to basic resolutions (maybe increasing button sizes a little bit on higher ones) and simply centering everything on the screen. Part of the problem is that I do not own a tablet, so I don't really know what it SHOULD look like, having never seen other apps running on a tablet, or even my own app on an actual tablet.
What resolutions (variants) would you recommend, and just how much larger should I make the buttons? For example, I think that the button sizes for a 320x480 variant WOULD be too small on a 800x1280 screen. But I don't know that I should necessarily FILL that 800x1280 screen with huge buttons.
This seems like such basic stuff, and I can't believe that I don't even know how to do this now.
Today I decided it was time to also look into the Kindle Fire's specs since I also sell my app on Amazon. Naturally, the resolution isn't really close to anything else, so once again I am looking at creating a dozen more layouts.
But I got to thinking.... I think I am approaching this wrong in the first place. What I have been doing is increasing the button sizes on the higher resolution devices to fill the screen. I initially figured this was the best approach, but I remember a comment on my app not too long ago that their only complaint was that the buttons were a bit large on their tablet.
I think I need to do this differently now. Now I am thinking that I should just stick to basic resolutions (maybe increasing button sizes a little bit on higher ones) and simply centering everything on the screen. Part of the problem is that I do not own a tablet, so I don't really know what it SHOULD look like, having never seen other apps running on a tablet, or even my own app on an actual tablet.
What resolutions (variants) would you recommend, and just how much larger should I make the buttons? For example, I think that the button sizes for a 320x480 variant WOULD be too small on a 800x1280 screen. But I don't know that I should necessarily FILL that 800x1280 screen with huge buttons.
This seems like such basic stuff, and I can't believe that I don't even know how to do this now.