Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:12 pm
Hi:
Lsat week we've published an Android App on the Play Store but we have discovered that it is not compatible with Tablets and Smarphones with big screens (Galaxy S3, S4).
The rare issue is that the app was debugged and tested on a Galaxy Tab 2 10" where it worked without problems.
The Play Store send us a message telling us that in order to make the App compatible, we need to modify the manifest so it can work on TABLET SCREENS
GOOGLE PLAY MESSAGE
To ensure that you can distribute your app to a broad range of tablets, your app should declare support for tablet screen sizes in its manifest file, as follows:
A <supports-screens> element, if declared, must not specify android:largeScreens="false" or android:xlargeScreens="false".
This sounds easy but we haven´t found a way to do it.
We found that inside the Bundle of Livecode is a folder containing the XML of the manifest, we changed it to include the following lines:
For apps targeting minSdkVersion value less than 13, a <supports-screens> element must be declared with both android:largeScreens="true" and android:xlargeScreens="true".
But the Livecode compiler didn´t compile with the extra line. Also there is something wrong because the original livecode Manifest has the largeScreens settings set to TRUE but as we can see didn´t worked.
Has someone published an Android App compatible with tablets and Galaxys S3 and S4? Can you help us and tell us what do we have to do in order to make our App compatible with tablets and big screen devices?
PD. We are using LiveCode 6.1.1 commercial
Thanks!
Lsat week we've published an Android App on the Play Store but we have discovered that it is not compatible with Tablets and Smarphones with big screens (Galaxy S3, S4).
The rare issue is that the app was debugged and tested on a Galaxy Tab 2 10" where it worked without problems.
The Play Store send us a message telling us that in order to make the App compatible, we need to modify the manifest so it can work on TABLET SCREENS
GOOGLE PLAY MESSAGE
To ensure that you can distribute your app to a broad range of tablets, your app should declare support for tablet screen sizes in its manifest file, as follows:
A <supports-screens> element, if declared, must not specify android:largeScreens="false" or android:xlargeScreens="false".
This sounds easy but we haven´t found a way to do it.
We found that inside the Bundle of Livecode is a folder containing the XML of the manifest, we changed it to include the following lines:
For apps targeting minSdkVersion value less than 13, a <supports-screens> element must be declared with both android:largeScreens="true" and android:xlargeScreens="true".
But the Livecode compiler didn´t compile with the extra line. Also there is something wrong because the original livecode Manifest has the largeScreens settings set to TRUE but as we can see didn´t worked.
Has someone published an Android App compatible with tablets and Galaxys S3 and S4? Can you help us and tell us what do we have to do in order to make our App compatible with tablets and big screen devices?
PD. We are using LiveCode 6.1.1 commercial
Thanks!