R RichardN Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Jun 25, 2018 #1 To be honest I have not written code for a widget since circa Android 4! I am just looking at a project, testing on a big screen Samsung S9+ and having difficulty in getting the widget anything larger than 4x5 units on the screen. The guidance on the forum is very old now. Q. What is the relashionship between parent panel size and widget size on larger devices? Q. Is it still appropriate to use layout scripts to size the panel + other elements? Thanks
To be honest I have not written code for a widget since circa Android 4! I am just looking at a project, testing on a big screen Samsung S9+ and having difficulty in getting the widget anything larger than 4x5 units on the screen. The guidance on the forum is very old now. Q. What is the relashionship between parent panel size and widget size on larger devices? Q. Is it still appropriate to use layout scripts to size the panel + other elements? Thanks
Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Jun 25, 2018 #2 RichardN said: Is it still appropriate to use layout scripts to size the panel + other elements? Click to expand... Anchors and designer script will not work with home screen widgets. All views should be anchored to the top left. RichardN said: and having difficulty in getting the widget anything larger than 4x5 units on the screen Click to expand... Are you sure that there could be larger widgets? What is the size of the panel? Upvote 0
RichardN said: Is it still appropriate to use layout scripts to size the panel + other elements? Click to expand... Anchors and designer script will not work with home screen widgets. All views should be anchored to the top left. RichardN said: and having difficulty in getting the widget anything larger than 4x5 units on the screen Click to expand... Are you sure that there could be larger widgets? What is the size of the panel?
R RichardN Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Jun 25, 2018 #3 Judging by the selection of native Samsung and other installed widgets I should be able to achieve at least 5x5 size. My guess is that a full screen widget would be 5x7 at standard icon size. The screen pixels are big at 1440 x 2960 but I don't see why this should not be handled just the same as smaller px screens. I will play with it a bit more and report back. Upvote 0
Judging by the selection of native Samsung and other installed widgets I should be able to achieve at least 5x5 size. My guess is that a full screen widget would be 5x7 at standard icon size. The screen pixels are big at 1440 x 2960 but I don't see why this should not be handled just the same as smaller px screens. I will play with it a bit more and report back.
R RichardN Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Jul 6, 2018 #4 Having revisited the base panel size I can achieve both 5x5 and 5x7 widgets on this larger screen quite happily. Upvote 0
Having revisited the base panel size I can achieve both 5x5 and 5x7 widgets on this larger screen quite happily.
