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Escape the shoebox on android legacy apps
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| <supports-screens android:largeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" /> |
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Taken from http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/screen-geometry-fun.html
Escape the Shoebox
I've observed that a certain number of applications appear “shoeboxed”, running in a handset-like number of pixels in the center of the screen, surrounded by a wide black band. They work fine, but this is silly, and easy to avoid. It turns out that this happens when you have a targetSdkVersion value less than four; this is interpreted to mean that you’re targeting the legacy Cupcake flavor of Android, which only supported HVGA.
In any case, if you want to make 100% sure that your app doesn’t get pushed into the shoebox, the supports-screens element is your friend; here’s what we recommend:
<supports-screens android:largeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" />(Both those attributes default to "false" for API levels less than 4.) Given a chance, the framework gets a good result on almost any Android screen imaginable.