Supporting Extra Large Screens in Android
In my last Android Pingus post I mentioned that I was interested in getting Pingus running full screen on my Motorola Xoom. It was clear from Android Market applications that it was possible to run applications across a wide range of Android versions with full screen support for extra large screens, but it was not entirely obvious to me how to actually accomplish that.
In reading the
Android
supports-screen
documentation
, it is clear that it is necessary to set the
xlargeScreens
attribute to
true
. However, the
xlargeScreens
attribute is not supported below API level 9. Trying to shoehorn that attribute into my project that was attempting to support back to API level 5, resulted in the following error.
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