Prevent tablet apps from loading

Question

I recently reviewed a breakdown of one of my applications on the ANdroid market and was surprised to see that several downloaders used Galaxy Tabs and several other tablets to use my application. Now I'm a little worried because when developing the application I did not take into account the large screen sizes, so the bitmaps that I used on Canvas are suitable for phones, but too small for tablets (I'm thinking of background bitmaps that will span about 1 / 4 Galaxy Tab screens. The thought of people using my app like this makes me feel a little frustrated. So my question is: is there a way to prevent the Tablet PC application from downloading? I guess not, but I just wanted to make sure.

Answer 1

<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="false"/> 

But I suspect that this will prevent your application from launching on the Galaxy Tab, but you can try to try

Answer 2

You can use the <compatible-screens> element to prevent, for example, devices with x-large screens from viewing your application on Google Play.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/compatible-screens-element.html

Answer 3

This question has already gone around a lot, and it seems that you cannot prevent users from downloading and installing the application based on their device type.

A few things you can try:

• Create an extra set of images for higher resolution devices
• Check the resolution when starting the first application and tell them that their device is not supported (and quits) or warns them that it may not look so good.