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Alright so the screen resolution for this device is 320x480, and the default android home features 3 screens. Wallpapers are stretched across all 3 screens..so you would think 3x the width with the same height. However, most information I find says that the correct wallpaper size would be 640x480.. which would only be 2x the size.
It's easy enough to just say double the width, but that only works for 3 screens(?). I'm interested in the formula here so I can determine the correct wallpaper size for 5 or 7 screens.
Is it the obvious +1/2 width for each additional screen? For instance:
320x480 resolution, 3 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)= 640, 640x480
320x480 resolution, 5 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)= 960, 960x480
400x854 resolution, 3 screens. 400+(400/2)+(400/2) = 800, 800x854
Am I on the money with this?
I dont think it actually adds anything to the size with more screens. I think it just divides it differently. I have used the same wallpaper with 3/4/5 screens and the pic is always the same.
You have to remember the wallpaper doesn't get stretch rather the space on top of the displayed area gets divided depending on how many home screens you have. In all the final wallpaper is still 640x480 but it overlaps in 3, 5, 7 etc places.
Just think of each of the 'screens' overlapping to understand how the homescreen works.
So then the proper wallpaper size for any Android device is 2x width x height? Or is it device specific.
Celeras said:
So then the proper wallpaper size for any Android device is 2x width x height? Or is it device specific.
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i think now with the Tattoo being available it depends on the device.
i think i would go with 'device-specific'. i'm curious what resolution builds like the pulse version uses.
it's rather apparent that the current 320x480 devices just use a shorter pan across a 640x480 image when the number of homescreens goes up. i suppose we could all just use larger wallpaper images, since android will crop oversized images to the appropriate resolution depending on what device it's on.
jayzusfk said:
i think i would go with 'device-specific'. i'm curious what resolution builds like the pulse version uses.
it's rather apparent that the current 320x480 devices just use a shorter pan across a 640x480 image when the number of homescreens goes up. i suppose we could all just use larger wallpaper images, since android will crop oversized images to the appropriate resolution depending on what device it's on.
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I read the Pulse uses a 2:3 ratio, it uses two rows of three screens after all. I read something like 512x768 works well.
As Prash said.
For the G1, wallpaper is 640x480. If you had 50 screens, it'd still be 640x480.
However, different devices have different screen resolutions.
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Celeras said:
Search came up blank, sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere.
Alright so the screen resolution for this device is 320x480, and the default android home features 3 screens. Wallpapers are stretched across all 3 screens..so you would think 3x the width with the same height. However, most information I find says that the correct wallpaper size would be 640x480.. which would only be 2x the size.
It's easy enough to just say double the width, but that only works for 3 screens(?). I'm interested in the formula here so I can determine the correct wallpaper size for 5 or 7 screens.
Is it the obvious +1/2 width for each additional screen? For instance:
320x480 resolution, 3 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)= 640, 640x480
320x480 resolution, 5 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)= 960, 960x480
400x854 resolution, 3 screens. 400+(400/2)+(400/2) = 800, 800x854
Am I on the money with this?
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Just take the original width and multiply it by the number of screens you have. No need to do this /2 crap. Makes no sense....regardless of what you read. Now...if you wanted to have say 5 screens with less wallpaper scrolling when you transition from screen to screen...then you could implement your division tables as stated in your original post. It really functions no different than a desktop with multiple monitors....other than the fact that you have one screen and wallpaper scrolling on the Android device.
EDIT:....I guess I have been working too many hours....totally forgot about the fact that you have to crop images when setting your wallpaper. That being said....stick with 640X480. I am gonna go punch myself in the face now.
Size of the background does not matter. The ssytems will scale it when you choose the wallpaper. Or you can manually select what you see in the gallery.
If you need the background to look a specific way then yes the size matters.
Since the system will stretch or shrink as needed.
Proportion is more important. 640x480, 1280x960, 800x600 They will all scale to the same appearance.
As for screens:
What changes is the amount of the background that shifts.
On 3 screens the left screen see 0-50 of the picture, the right sees 50-100 the center screen sees 25-75.
On 9 screens: These numbers are off because it actually takes like 6.22 or something but this is close.
screen 1 = 0-50
screen 2 = 6-56
screen 3 = 12-62
screen 4 = 18-68
screen 5 = 24-74
screen 6 = 30-80
screen 7 = 36-86
screen 9 = 42-92
screen 9 = 50-100
I would be impressed if someone can figure out a way to make each screen a different wallpaper. A single image would be fantastic but probably unlikely.
bubonik said:
I would be impressed if someone can figure out a way to make each screen a different wallpaper. A single image would be fantastic but probably unlikely.
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bump for this post. is it really possible to use a single wallpaper without stretching in all homescreens? becuase i want my son's picture as wallpaper but i dont the picture to be stretched. wallpaper plus can do this fine but it isnt compatible with eclair 2.0. any idea guys. regards
no1 wants non-scrollable wallpaper?
any1??
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+1 for non-scrollable wallpaper...better late than never?
Tommmii said:
+1 for non-scrollable wallpaper...better late than never?
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Launcher Pro has a stationary-wallpaper option.
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Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a specific background for my hero.
I've downloaded the 'backgrounds' app from the market and also had a search via google with no luck.
Any idea where I can get a Tottenham Hotspur wallpaper from?
Or if not, how I can convert a picture to use as a wallpaper?
Thanks,
B
errm..
http://www.tottenhamhotspurs.tv/tottenham-pictures-5/
or even here
whats the background image resolution on the uk tmobile g2 ?
i.e. not the physical screen resolution, but the resolution of the image that is scrolled in the background of the default 7 touchflo (android home?) pages. i dont think its simply 7x width of screen, as it doesnt scroll as much as the foreground
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Check the HTC site and see if it lists the dpi (dot per inch / dot pitch) of the screen... but a 72 dpi image should be fine, or use a larger size than 640x480.
As long as its the same aspect ratio it will scale nicely when cropped.
Cheers joe!
I've found something decent, I was under the impression I needed a specific android wallpaper, but the image I found from one of your links seems to work fine!
Thanks...
http://g1wallz.com/
this site will be usefull there are enough wallpapers. i like this site
Any 640x480 jpeg image should be fine for a home screen background, anything larger can be cropped down when you set it
Hi all,
I'm working on some wallpapers for android, but I want to know the exact size of the image for each phone/resolution so that the user doen't have to crop the picture.
In my case, I have a Desire, which has a resolution of 480*800, and most people use 5 pages (left2, left1, center, right1, right2).
How can I figure out the correct width for the wallpapers, as the scroll is kinda weird.
I hope you get what I mean
Also, can someone post the different resolutions of android phones?
Thx in advance for any answers
OK, I figured it out...
Phone Resolution = Wallpaper Size
240x320 = 480x320 (QVGA)
240x400 = 480x400 (WQVGA)
240x432 = 480x400 (WQVGA)
320x480 = 640x480 (HVGA)
480x800 = 960x800 (WVGA)
480x854 = 960x854 (WVGA)
Hope somebody will find this useful too
Wheezy_be said:
OK, I figured it out...
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Has always been 2x horizontal resolution by 1x vertical resolution, not exactly rocket science IMHO
i actually found op's results somewhat useful but then also poster ^ there for explaining it by x2 by x1. i have been having trouble finding a good wallpaper cause my tablet is 7" but res. is, i think, 800x480. so my size would be 1600x480, right?
the issue i always have is when i pick a wall it tells me to crop but even after i crop it, it doesnt size it correctly like i had cropped it
tablet is orignally in landscape but w/ a rotate app i also use portrait, if that even matters at all
What is the screen resolution on the NC ? Just the one screen not across multipule desktops. So if I created a photo what size should it be to fit exactly on the front/main screen ??
Thanks
1024 x 600
The screen resolution on the Nook Color is 600x1024.
The equation for sizing pictures to use as uncropped backgrounds is (n+1)*h/2, where N = the number of home screens you will be scrolling across and H is the horizontal resolution of the screen. This comes from the fact that the "background" is scrolled half as quickly as the foreground. Note that the notifications bar does mean you will have a lil bit of crop at the top and bottom, or you can set your launcher to hide the bar.
So, for 1 homescreen you would want the picture to be 600x1024, 3 will be 1200x1024, and 7 will be 2400x1024.
EugeneKay said:
The screen resolution on the Nook Color is 600x1024.
The equation for sizing pictures to use as uncropped backgrounds is (n+1)*h/2, where N = the number of home screens you will be scrolling across and H is the horizontal resolution of the screen. This comes from the fact that the "background" is scrolled half as quickly as the foreground. Note that the notifications bar does mean you will have a lil bit of crop at the top and bottom, or you can set your launcher to hide the bar.
So, for 1 homescreen you would want the picture to be 600x1024, 3 will be 1200x1024, and 7 will be 2400x1024.
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Great info to have ! Thanks.
I am having problem with the phone's wallpaper setting.
Just bluetoothed a 480x800 wallpaper to the phone, went to wallpaper > select wallpaper from > gallery > then selected the 480x800 pic I bluetoothed, but then a red crop frame came up, and it would not allow me to stretch it to full size. Even if I stretch the frame to max size, the image will magnify in and become pixelated when displayed as wallpaper.
Is there a fix on this? Anyway to display the wallpaper as actual size (480x800) without the red frame?
I think the wallpaper needs to be 960 x 800 - it slides with the different home screens. So the IS is prompting you to crop it. Can you resize it first and then send it across?
Yes 480 is not enough ... Its actually half really ... The phone will only crop the wallpaper propotionaly so that it dosent get stretched in a funky way when applied ...
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knightrocker said:
Yes 480 is not enough ... Its actually half really ... The phone will only crop the wallpaper propotionaly so that it dosent get stretched in a funky way when applied ...
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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True, or you could get a Sense replacement and set the number of home screens u have to a lower value as opposed to the HTC Sense ... i havent tested it, but that should be a standard check for all sense replacements ..
Even easier would be to get the proper resolution wall paper
Can anyone advise the best resolution wallpaper to use with the native Quad HD resolution (1440x2560) ?
I reckon it would not be 1440x2560, because the homescreen actually spans multiple base 1440x2560 screens which are shifted across the single wallpaper image by swiping. It is ____x2560.
I want to find some different wallpaper, don't see any stock wallpaper I like. Rummaged around but can't find the stock wallpaper images in the phone (directories/files) to check their native resolution.
TIA for any info...
OK, I think I answered my own question: 2880 (W) x 2560 (H).
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Actually, it appears that it spans the image across four screens and then stops, so peak quality per screen would be with a 5760x2560 wallpaper.
Update: Never mind; it doesn't display four equal sections per screen.