Mobile Device Physical Size

[Brian Milby]

iPhone6SPlus: 5.5" 1242x2208 414x736 414x736 3

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Yesterday, in reply to Ralph's post I included these notes about mobile
> metrics:
>
> > ...it seems that LC's resolution-independence works very much like
> > that of browsers (probably using the same OS APIs under the hood),
> > using logical metrics rather than physical.
> ...
> > I just ran a quick test to see how well that works:
> ...
> >                   Diag  Physical    Web    LiveCode PxDensity
> >                   ----  --------  -------- -------- ---------
> > LG G Stylo Phone: 5.5"  720x1280  360x592  360x592   2
> > Amazon F7 Tablet: 7.0"  600x1024  600x976  600x976   1
>
> This morning I had some testing to do so I charged a couple older devices
> and ran my test on each to get:
>
>   Samsung S4 Phone: 5.0"  1080x1920  360x640  360x640  3
>   Samsung S1 Phone: 4.0"   480x800   320x508* 320x534  1.5
>
> So now we have data from four devices with very different specs:
> - four different resolutions
> - four different physical sizes
> - four different pixel densities
> - four different Android versions
> - three different vendors
>
> ...and in each case the screen metrics as understood by web browsers match
> those LiveCode gives us (with the one minor exception in the oldest phone,
> noted in the footnote below).
>
> It would be good to know if any of you testing with iOS devices get
> results that don't like up as well as these.
>
> But from what I've seen so far, on Android (and in my limited testing on
> iOS devices a few months ago) it looks like LC's resolution independence is
> very reliable for object placement across devices with very different
> display characteristics.
>
>
> * I don't believe there's a version of FireFox available now for a phone
> that old (I keep it in its original state with an older Android version for
> testing), so the web test used the browser Samsung included on those
> models.  The difference of 26p is likely a bug (maybe counting the status
> bar height twice?), one I've not seen in newer browsers.
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>