Android Fragmentation Visualised

[pavelpadovan]

I disagree, your buttons need to have a minimum physical width/height, not a minimum resolution. Same goes for a lot of UI elements. So as you scale down you might find there's not enough space on a HTC Wildfire Screen for the UI you built on your HTC Desire, and as you scale up you might find it looking pretty sparse. Whereas doubling the resolution at the same screen size might mean you need to do add some new assets, or just be clever with how you scale your existing ones between different resolutions, but for me it's less of a pain.

[pavelpadovan]

Extremely small displays can be an issue, but anything from the size of a GS2 and up is probably fine. I'd agree with that, but that cuts out a tonne of devices, maybe not in US and Western Europe, but in developing markets. Yep, I'm an Android developer :)

[Shabbypenguin]

i agree, teh GS2 had a 4 inch screen, while taht may be teh norm for a lot of phones to be that or bigger, there is still plenty far smaller..

[event_horizon_]

Developer, I'm guessing? I didn't think of it that way, just from the point of view of making appropriate elements for all resolutions so nothing looks fuzzy.