The best way to learn about detecting and responding to devices and their varying attributes (screens, orientations, and so on) is to make a simple app:
Create a new Basic Activity project and call it
Device Detection. Leave all the other settings at their defaults.Open the
activity_main.xmlfile in the design tab and delete the default Hello world!TextView.Drag a Button onto the top of the screen and set its onClick property to
detectDevice. We will code this method in a minute.Drag two TextView widgets onto the layout, one below the other, and set their id properties to
txtOrientationandtxtResolutionrespectively.Check you have a layout that looks something like the following screenshot:
Note
I have stretched my widgets (mainly horizontally) and increased the
textSizeattributes to24spto make them clearer on the screen, but this is not required for the app to work correctly.
Click the Infer Constraints button to secure the positions of the UI elements.
Now we...