Android hdpi/mdpi/ldpi for Values folder?

Question

Android allows us to define hdpi/mdpi/ldpi for the drawable folder in order to account for different sized screens/devices. I was wondering if that same support can be applied for the Values folder (or even the layout folder)? Reason being, I typically define a "sizes.xml" file which holds standard dp sizes that I apply to margins and paddings. I also do the same for sp sizes for text. I'd like to adjust those values based on the phones dpi.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. Just like this:

res/values/dimens.xml(default) res/values-ldpi/dimens.xml   (240x320 and nearer resolution) res/values-mdpi/dimens.xml   (320x480 and nearer resolution) res/values-hdpi/dimens.xml   (480x800, 540x960 and nearer resolution) res/values-xhdpi/dimens.xml  (720x1280 - Samsung S3, Micromax Canvas HD, etc)  res/values-xxhdpi/dimens.xml (1080x1920 - Samsung S4, HTC one, etc) res/values-large/dimens.xml  (480x800)  res/values-large-mdpi/dimens.xml (600x1024) res/values-sw600dp/dimens.xml  (600x1024) res/values-sw720dp/dimens.xml  (800x1280) res/values-xlarge-xhdpi/dimens.xml (2560x1600 - Nexus 10") res/values-large-xhdpi/dimens.xml  (1200x1920 - Nexus 7"(latest)) 

(from: http://wiki.jikexueyuan.com/project/android-actual-combat-skills/multi-resolution-adapting-common-directory.html Warning: the link is chinese!!! To translate, right click on the page, click "translate to English" in the popup menu.)

Answer 2

Yes, I believe anything in the res/ folder can use "Configuration Qualifiers". So for example, you can have a values-sw600dp-mdpi-land/ folder.

See "Using Configuration Qualifiers": http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#qualifiers

I first noticed this by looking at Google's IOSched app sample code, look at the res folder: https://github.com/google/iosched/tree/master/android/src/main/res

You'll see that they have "values-sw600dp-land", "values-w400dp" and "values-v17" folders, just to name a few.