HDPI and MDPI Problem

Question

Hi all,

All these days i used to test my application on my HTC Legend (2.1 OS) only, and i had all my images resources in drawable-hdpi folder.. and everything worked fine

and today i wanted to test my Application on Android 1.5, so i recreated all the images with lower resolution and kept it under drawable-mdpi folder, so now i have High resolution images in drawable-hdpi folder and lower resolution images in drawable-mdpi folder..

Everything looked great on both the HTC Legend and Emulator(with Android 1.5)

Later i found out that the images in drawable-mdpi are shown in my HTC Legend too and not the images in drawable-hdpi

in my manifest file i have also included

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" />
<supports-screens android:anyDensity="true" />

Can anyone help me with this, I want to know as to why the images in drawable-hdpi are not used?

Answer 1

Try removing

 <supports-screens android:anyDensity="true" />

UPD:

Just noticed that Legend is MDPI device (Resolution: 320 X 480 HVGA). So the question is incorrect, your application behaves as it is expected to behave.

Look at the section http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/guide/practices/screens_support.html#range to become educated on android device sizes and densities.

Answer 2

You can try adding

android:targetSdkVersion="4"

and remove anydensity tag