Android Screen Size

HalfBakedProductions

Hi all,

I am planning on porting my games to Android (I recently got my hands on a test device, which is awesome!) But was wondering what was a good size to use. I know that there are A LOT of different Android screen sizes, but is there some common size which most Android devs use when publishing?

Also I read in some posts from last year that Android automatically stretches to fit the screen. Is that still true, or has it changed.

Thanks in advance,

Half Baked Productions

EDIT: I know that this question has been answered before, I was just wondering if anything has changed

HalfBakedProductions

Any suggestion would be great

Tokuhara

Android publishing is very tricky. I always port only landscape games as you just have to look for the sides that are going to be cropped.
But you can take a look at Unity statistics - http://stats.unity3d.com/mobile/display.html

zoope

@HalfBakedProductions We have released a game, which was an iPhone( not legacy) project, and has ported nicely for most android devices successfully.

We only seem to be having slight issues with nexus 4 from the early reports so far.

Both amazon and Google play approved the game with over-scan.

Not sure what others on the forum think of overscan, but its working for us beautifully.

Let me know if you need more details, would be happy to help


You can check it out at:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/rescue-aliens/id660108976

Google Play : http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.au.zoope.rescuealiens

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DT0WEIE?ie=UTF8&ref=mas_dl

HalfBakedProductions

@HalfBakedProductions We have released a game, which was an iPhone( not legacy) project, and has ported nicely for most android devices successfully.

We only seem to be having slight issues with nexus 4 from the early reports so far.

Both amazon and Google play approved the game with over-scan.

Not sure what others on the forum think of overscan, but its working for us beautifully.

Let me know if you need more details, would be happy to help


You can check it out at:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/rescue-aliens/id660108976

Google Play : http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.au.zoope.rescuealiens

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DT0WEIE?ie=UTF8&ref=mas_dl

@zoope Thanks for the help! I think I'm gonna go the route of the iPhone 5 16:9 Screen Size and then letterboxing the screen.

tenrdrmer

Letter boxing will only be allowed on the android market. Amazon and nook don't accept it.

HalfBakedProductions

Letter boxing will only be allowed on the android market. Amazon and nook don't accept it.

@tenrdrmer, that's good to know. Luckily, for now I'm only publishing to Google Play.

Do you have to use overscan for the other two markets, or is there some stretch feature?

Thanks,

HalfBakedProductions

zoope

@HalfBakedProductions In our game, rescue aliens, we have used letter-boxing for iOS devices.

Overscan is been used for Google Play and Amazon Kindle. And this is using an iphone5 project. Seems to be working fine.

tenrdrmer

@zoope have you recently submitted an app using letterbox to apple? They have changed thier requirements from what I have read.

HalfBakedProductions

@zoope have you recently submitted an app using letterbox to apple? They have changed thier requirements from what I have read.

@tenrdrmer, I still use letterbox for apple. I think as long as it is iPhone 5 size it's fine (I letterbox for the 4/4S as well as the iPad, but it is optimized for iPhone 5)

zoope

@tenrdrmer Thats correct, black bars are rejected if they dont support iPhone5 size, else its fine. My app runs without any black bars on iPhone5, but does have letter boxing on iPad and iPhone4/4S.

HalfBakedProductions

@zoope @Tokuhara @Tenrdrmer,

I am pleased to announce PetRun and PetRun Free for Android. Thanks for all the help on the screen size

Links:
Paid: PetRun for Android
Free: PetRun Free for Android