App doesn't mark itself as small-screen friendly making it invisible to QVGA devices in the market.

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App doesn't mark itself as small-screen friendly making it invisible to QVGA devices in the market. #130

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Hiya,

Vendors have started to ship QVGA devices running Donut. Google's current 
policy is that QVGA devices won't see anything in the Market that doesn't 
explicitly declare itself to be QVGA-friendly.

To become QVGA-friendly, foursquared would need to target Android 1.6 (API 
Level 4) and declare itself as supporting 1.5 (API Level 3) and add stanzas 
describing what screen-sizes it's happy with to the AndroidManifest.xml. 
We've just done this dance for K-9 Mail and it wasn't too bad.

I'm now running foursquared on a QVGA device. So far it's perfectly happy. 
Would a patch to bring foursquared up to "1.6 with backcompat to 1.5 
devices" be something you folks are amenable to?  If so, I'm happy to whip 
something up.
-jesse

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jes...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2009 at 7:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I'd love a patch to fix this. Send it my way, or upload it to 
codereview.appspot.com

Original comment by jlapenna on 23 Nov 2009 at 7:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Attached is a first pass. I've tested it in the emulator on a QVGA 1.6 device, 
an HVGA 
1.5 device and a WVGA854 2.0 device as well as an actual HTC Tattoo. It 
definitely looks 
better on the Tattoo than the current release build does, mostly due to the px 
to dip 
changes.  The AndroidManifest.xml changes and the default.properties change 
_should_ make 
it start showing up in the market for QVGA devices.

Original comment by jes...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2009 at 11:29

Attachments:

foursquared.qvga.patch

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This issue was updated by revision 1000e41ffd.

Small screen support.
jessev's patch in issue 130

Original comment by jlapenna on 24 Nov 2009 at 5:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the patch! It worked flawlessly.

Original comment by jlapenna on 24 Nov 2009 at 5:09

Changed state: Fixed

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the quick turnaround! (And just to confirm, Foursquare showed up in 
the 
market on my Tattoo this morning)

Original comment by jes...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2009 at 2:01