What variant to use?

[Ricky D]

I have a Samsung Galaxy s2 running Android 2.3.6

I am wondering what the variant settings for this phone is?

I am redeveloping my work app to landscape.

regards, Ricky

 

[JonPM]

What are the screen specs?

Sent from my DROIDX

 

[Ricky D]

800x480 in portrait or 480x800 in landscape

how do i find out the scale?

regards, Ricky

 

[Ricky D]

I found on Wikipedia that it's 800x480 at 218 ppi WVGA

So what is the scale?

regards, Ricky

 

[timo]

1.5

 

[Ricky D]

Thanks Timo. How is that calculated?

Regards, Ricky

 

[Erel]

The possible scales are: 0.75 (not common), 1 (mostly tablets) , 1.5 and 2.

 

[Ricky D]

So how do I find out which one?

 

[Erel]

Galaxy S2 is 1.5 (1.5 * 160 = 240 dpi). The easiest way is to call:
Msgbox(GetDeviceLayoutValues, "").

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Thanks Timo. How is that calculated?

See the Documentation. The first paragraph of this link explains how to calculate a device's scale.

 

[Ricky D]

ok now I'm lost.

I did this :

   Msgbox(GetDeviceLayoutValues, "")

as the only piece of code in my new app and it returns

480 x 800, scale = 1.5 (240 dpi)

But all web sites with S2 specs says dpi is 218 which equates to 1.3625 scale

What should I put in?

regards, Ricky

 

[timo]

Scales are as Erel told you. There isn't any interpolation in between.
1.3625 is 1.5.