Android: Get the screen resolution / pixels as integer values

Question

Hi guys, this is a really simple question on which I've found no answer :/ How can I quickly access the screen resolution (width, height) as integer values?

I've tried this one, but it always shows zero on my emulator:

DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
int width = dm.widthPixels / 2;

In my case I want to dynamically create a table with tableRows, each containing two cols. This cols all shall fill half of the screen in width.

Can someone give me a hint?

Answer 1

The easiest way will be to implement onSizeChanged. You are probably getting a value of 0 because the view hasn't initialized yet. You can't call the above code in the View constructor for example.