Droid Sector » Eclipse http://www.droidsector.com/blog Android news, applications and devices Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:13:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Android apps on tablet: what will they looks like? http://www.droidsector.com/blog/2010/04/29/apps-on-android-tablet/ http://www.droidsector.com/blog/2010/04/29/apps-on-android-tablet/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:59:20 +0000 Jeff http://www.droidsector.com/blog/?p=535
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    • ]]>     We’ve seen many upcoming Android tablets, but apps from the Market were never showcased. Some people tend to think that the apps will look bad in high resolution, so I’ve decided to check it. Below go the screenshots of apps running on Android 1.6 x86 in VirtualBox. Screen resolution was set to 1024×768.
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    As you can see, most apps looks just fine thanks to “liquid” Android UI. This means: a) no “pixel doubling”, b) it’s possible to make a single UI layout for all devices and c) many application from Market will work on tablets without any change in code.

    However, many other applications (Fring, Movies, Shazam, Seesmic,…) refused to install. I guess large screens support is disabled in these apps until real tablets appears on the market.

    How to adapt your apps for the tablet resolution?

    On the UI design screen in Eclipse, select “Custom…” in Devices drop-down box. Create a new device with 1024×768 screen resolution and medium density. Now you can preview how your UI will look on a tablet.

    Unfortunately emulator in Android SDK doesn’t support typical tablet resolutions yet. You can use live CD from Android-x86 project to run and debug apps.

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    • ]]>     If you are interested in writing Android apps, this tutorial is a great place to start:
    http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html

    More detailed guide about installing ADB/USB drivers in Windows:
    http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/

    On Mac, just add path to the SDK to file .bash_profile in your home folder. If you don’t have Path Finder or other file manager that shows hidden files, here is a small guide:

    1. Extract SDK to your Documents folder, as example.
    2. Open Terminal from Applications/Utilities.
    3. In Terminal Type “ls -a” and see if there is a .bash_profile in your home folder.
    4. If not, type:  touch .bash_profile to create this file.
    5. Now type open -e .bash_profile to open it in TextEdit.
    6. Add the following line: export PATH=${PATH}:~/Documents/android-sdk-mac/tools

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