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Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by ekek » 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!
Last edited by ekek on Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:10 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by LCNeil » Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:54 am

Hi Ekek,

Could you please submit a report on this issue with our Quality Control team as we will want to investigate this issue further.

You will be able to file a report here-

http://quality.runrev.com

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger

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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by ekek » Wed Oct 09, 2013 1:23 am

Thanks! We will report this issue to Quality control.

Best regards

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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by sirobchGA0cda » Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:48 am

Hi,
do you know if this bug is resolved, because I have the same problem with my application ?
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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by bohmgyorgy1990 » Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:22 pm

Hy,

This problem was resolved because I struggle with this.

Best Regards

George

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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by Simon » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:14 am

The bug report still shows it as "Pending".
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11269

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Re: Android Apps compatible with tablets and Galaxy S3?

Post by meixingm » Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:23 am

Hi, has this been resolved yet? I'd like to publish my app and it has been designed for tablets but I am not sure if there's an option to utilise this for android thanks!

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