May 7th, 2011 by Luis Alves

Great tool to convert Android Dp to Px and vice versa

Today I found this nice tool that may help you convert your font sizes from photoshop pixels to Android Dp’s and vice versa. http://labs.skinkers.com/content/android_dp_px_calculator/ Hope it’s helpful.

May 6th, 2011 by Luis Alves

Exporting your graphics to support multiple screens on the Android

When I’m designing, I usually design my layouts in Photoshop. Whenever possible I try to use shapes so they can scale to any size in the future because I try to keep in mind that new equipments may become available in the market and when that happens I may have to export bigger versions of [...]

May 6th, 2011 by Luis Alves

Difference between px, dip, dp and sp in android

px Pixels – corresponds to actual pixels on the screen. in Inches – based on the physical size of the screen. mm Millimeters – based on the physical size of the screen. pt Points – 1/72 of an inch based on the physical size of the screen. dp Density-independent Pixels – an abstract unit that [...]