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LeeM

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11th Apr 13 at 16:08

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22107787

gettin too big now.

nathy_87

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11th Apr 13 at 16:10

Shame they run Android. If I could get iOS on that bad boy I'd happily buy that.

It's nt too big if it still fits in your pocket, is what I say.

[Edited on 11-04-2013 by nathy_87]

LeeM

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11th Apr 13 at 16:13

youd take a call in the middle fo town on that would you? fuck that you'd like a right knob

nathy_87

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11th Apr 13 at 16:18

I'd use a headset

and texting, meh, do that once inside.

Nath

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11th Apr 13 at 17:09

Mega

Balling

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11th Apr 13 at 17:34

Christ...

At least the name fits.

dannymccann

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11th Apr 13 at 18:46

My Nexus 4 is a touch too big to use one handed safely (without dropping it), maybe I just have girly hands, so there is no way you could text one handed on that

AlunJ

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11th Apr 13 at 21:50

Jesus my htc sensation XL was too big, fuck that shit, are they just creating products for gaps in the market that don't actually exist?

Jay

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12th Apr 13 at 00:10

That's ridiculous, the others one too big I reckon never mind going an inch bigger. People will buy it though just to have the new one.

deano87

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12th Apr 13 at 05:29

Mega?

Surely it is just the Note?

A2H GO

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12th Apr 13 at 07:08

Samsung Android Screen Sizes:
2.8
3.14
3.2
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.65
3.7
3.97
4
4.2
4.27
4.3
4.5
4.52
4.65
4.8
5
5.3
5.5
5.8
6.3
7
7.7
8
10
10.1

Rob_Quads

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12th Apr 13 at 07:42

When is a phone not a phone?? Is this the limit.

Put GSM into the nexus 7 - is that a phone? Nexus 10.

Samsung really are going for the lest try and cover every single market out there

Balling

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12th Apr 13 at 07:47

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Samsung Android Screen Sizes:
...

I'm very curious as to what resolution all these screens are running. All those screen sizes pose a major issue for developers on a device designed to only run full screen apps.

On App Store on an iOS device you get the small "+" icon to show that an app is designed for both iPhone and iPad.
How does it work on the Play Store? Is there a list of 25 different sizes that the app suits or does it just scale and it's up to the user to determine if it's suitable for their device?

LeeM

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12th Apr 13 at 09:33

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Samsung Android Screen Sizes:
2.8
3.14
3.2
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.65
3.7
3.97
4
4.2
4.27
4.3
4.5
4.52
4.65
4.8
5
5.3
5.5
5.8
6.3
7
7.7
8
10
10.1

if apple release a new iphone or ipad less than 12 months after the last one they get slagged off

3CorsaMeal

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12th Apr 13 at 09:58

Thats a Samsung on the right

A2H GO

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12th Apr 13 at 10:15

quote:
Originally posted by Balling

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Samsung Android Screen Sizes:
...
I'm very curious as to what resolution all these screens are running. All those screen sizes pose a major issue for developers on a device designed to only run full screen apps.

On App Store on an iOS device you get the small "+" icon to show that an app is designed for both iPhone and iPad.
How does it work on the Play Store? Is there a list of 25 different sizes that the app suits or does it just scale and it's up to the user to determine if it's suitable for their device?

That's only Samsung screen sizes too...

My understanding is that developers include individual images for the certain resolutions (ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, and xhdpi etc), then let the Android OS do the scaling for the various screen sizes. Meaning if your phone is one of the ones that can take advantage of the optimal images that have been provided then sound, if not you get a scaled up/down/streched image.

That said, screen size is the least of an Android developers problems...

[Edited on 12-04-2013 by A2H GO]

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12th Apr 13 at 11:24

quote:
Originally posted by Balling
How does it work on the Play Store? Is there a list of 25 different sizes that the app suits or does it just scale and it's up to the user to determine if it's suitable for their device?

Either device filtering (which happens at Play store level) - so you design your app for use with a number of dpi's, devices are 'blocked' from downloading the app if they don't meet requirement; and/or use screen compatibility mode which, as Ash said, will scale the app to your devices screen.

And similar to iOS, you can setup different layouts for the app based on device.

Tbh it's a bit of a non-issue as you can get a pretty decent coverage of devices by creating drawables (imagery) in a handful of sizes and by including a number of app layouts.

Ash - Fragmentation is only an issue if you want to use new features of the API; no different to iOS to some extent.

[Edited on 12-04-2013 by Dom]

A2H GO

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12th Apr 13 at 11:54

I guess so but by implementing new features introduced in JellyBean (I use the term 'new' loosely given it nearly a year old) you alienate 75% of the userbase (possibly more if you use the play store 'blocking' to further filter out certain screen size/resolutions).

Whereas at least Apple developers can implement the latest features and still cater for 85% of the user base.

That said Java is so much easier than ObjC

[Edited on 12-04-2013 by A2H GO]

Dom

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12th Apr 13 at 12:06

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Whereas at least Apple developers can implement the latest features and still cater for 85% of the user base.

Be interesting to see what features of iOS 6.1 API on a iPhone 5 are not available when using a 3GS.
Although under Android it's not as bad as you're making it out; differences between 17/16/15 is pretty minimal (change logs are available on the developers site if you're wanting to look) and 10 - 15 is manageable (depends entirely on the app your developing; can write backwards compatible routines if need be).

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13th Apr 13 at 21:58