supporting different screen sizes

Many many users are affected by android apps not showing in their Market, just because they have a screen with a different resolution that is not the most common one.
this is the case of HTC Tattoo, with its 2.7" QVGA screen.
But this can be easily fixed by app makers, by simpling including this litte code in their manifest.xml

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" /> <uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion="8" />
<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" /> 

with minSdkVersion="3" you are still supporting Android 1.5, and with supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" you tell Market that it will work in small screens too :D

Everyone wins.

Currently supported resolutions and densities byt the SDK:

1.QVGA (240x320)
2.WQVGA (240x400)
3.FWQVGA (240x432)
4.HVGA (320x480)
5.WVGA (480x800)
6.FWVGA (480x854)

* A set of three generalized sizes: large, normal, and small, and
* A set of three generalized densities: high (hdpi), medium (mdpi), and low (ldpi) 

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Android competition for [paid] Laconica app with upload support to identica

I'm so frustrated with the existing µblogging apps for Laconica (twitli and twdroid) not being able to upload pictures correctly that I'm in search of an alternative.

I would like to request any one interested, to develop an Android application fully compatible with Laconica (hashtags, groups, public page, DM, replies, context,...), that is able to use the GPS data, and that can upload pictures to several online services (and also keeps a copy locally). Preferably the pictures should be uploaded to the Laconica server (in case of Identica, to status.net system), since version 0.8 now supports attachments.

A plus would be for it to be able to upload/store then on zenphoto galleries and link the uploaded pic.(can be scp,web, etc)

 

If desired and app meets this goal, I'll pay a fair amount for this app.

Anyone interested please contact me here or on identica

 

 

Edit: apps must be FLOSS licensed

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