Tablet Fullscreen active

To set your app in FULL SCREEN you have to do a couple of things, check the attached screen shots.

To find out if it's a tablet you can ask if the width is > 320 (if your app is set as portrait) or if the width > 480 (if set up as landscape)

NJDude said:

To set your app in FULL SCREEN you have to do a couple of things, check the attached screen shots.

To find out if it's a tablet you can ask if the width is > 320 (if your app is set as portrait) or if the width > 480 (if set up as landscape)

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NJDude, that won't work - screens are improving...

My phone is 480x800 and there are phones which are more like 560x width (in Portrait orientation).

The smallest (7") tablets are also 480x800. The larger tablets (10") are 600x1024 or 800x1280.

So width test (portrait) for >= 600 is needed with layout support for 480x to cover the better phone displays.

This may be unusual but you could check to see if phone is supported, with the logic if not (or NONE in the following case), then it must be a tablet.

Using the phone library and phone object member:
GetPhoneType As String
Returns the phone radio type. Possible values: CDMA, GSM, NONE.

I am also interested in finding a reliable way to distinguish a tablet from a smartphone and therefore I am digging up this rather old topic.

The previous post is a good solution but not 100% since there are tablets with phone-support (for instance Acer A501).

I guess one could also verify what Android OS is installed and if it is Honeycomb, one could be rather certain that it is a tablet since I think Honeycomb was only for tablets (although I know there were unofficial portings of Honeycomb to phones). However, if it is not Honeycomb (for instance Ice Cream Sandwich), then there is no way to tell......

I guess that verifying a combination of what written in this thread should most times be good. If not, one could add an option in user-settings of the app where the user can flag the device as a tablet.

Any other suggestions?

tablet id

Here's how I determine if the app is being run on a tablet or not.



Tablets for now are a density of 1. So I check the density and the width or height as needed to determine which layout to load. In the example above, gi is the width (the app runs in landscape). This method works for all tablets up to the current 1280 x 800. Phones of high res are a density of 1.5 or 2.

--- Jem

You can also find the physical size with this code: device type