How to create different layout for Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7?
android, android-layout, android-screen
Solution
According to the Supporting Multiple Screens
Qualifiers like `small`, `normal`, `large` and `xlarge` is for `Screen Sizes`, which means Nexus 7 will use the resources with `large` qualifier, if you provide. Therefore before you create the folder with `large` qualifier, Nexus 7 will load the resources from default layout folder. As for `ldpi`, `mdpi`, `hdpi` and `xhdpi` is for the screen density.
To solve your problem, you need:
put the layout definitions for Galaxy S3 into layout, and layout-sw600dp for Nexus 7. Please refer to Android Developers Blog: Getting Your App Ready for Jelly Bean and Nexus 7
put the resources (images or drawable stuff) for Galaxy S3 into drawable-xhdpi, and drawable-tvdpi or drawable-hdpi for Nexus 7.
Hope it could help you, and please let me know if you have any other problems :)
Here are some useful references:
What layout is suitable for 720x1280 Android devices?
Screen Width Qualifier
Problem
I have created an android application which works properly for nexus 7. Inside resources folder, I have created two folders, `layout`, `layout-land` for Nexus 7" tab. Everything was working fine till date. Now I want to create a different layout for Samsung Galaxy S3. For that, I have created a folders inside resources with `layout-large` & `layout-large-land`. But, here is the problem. Now, for Nexus 7 also, the layout defined in `layout-large` folder is getting loaded. How to stop that? How can I create different layout for Nexus 7" tab & Galaxy S3 mobile? I have read Supporting Multiple Screens documentation. But I couldn't understand as the screen size for Nexus 7 is 1204 X 800 & screen size for samsung galaxy S3 is 720 X 1280. How to create different layouts for different devices with different screen resolutions & display sizes? Also, based on device size, I want to change few values in my application. How to do that one?