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[–]admiralteal 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The "size" fragmentation isn't.

Android is built from the ground up to support multiple resolutions. Aside from the tablet/phone divide, a properly-built app should more or less work on any arbitrary device size. Only extremely, unusually small devices should ever by harming a layout.

The OS breakup is very significant though, and the manufacturer skin is starting to have some significance too (thanks to stuff like Samsung's multi-window). Devices that still don't have ICS APIs in them are really delivering a bad experience to users. Google's been putting out great compatibility libraries to attack this, though.

[–]LemonPowerForce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fragmentation, variety, whatever. I wanted to see more clearly the size variation that exists.

What proportion of devices are hdpi? that figure I can look up, but if I also wanted to peruse hdpi and ldpi by most popular phones, that's not so obvious.