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2010-11-22 , 11:24
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
I'll have to find the article I was reading - it explicitly said that Samsung had had to do some hackery to support such a large screen res, and that Honeycomb would support larger res screens than the current max (which was something like 960x480? I can't really remember)
Indeed there have been many articles saying the same thing. The official SDK does not ship with support for 1024x600 screen out of the box, but it is quite easy (and confirmed) to create an AVD (Android Virtual Device) with these screen specifications. For developers that wish to see their output as it would display on the Tab, this is a necessary step.

The misunderstanding regurgitated in almost all popular media is that 854x480 is the max resolution supported by the OS, when in fact it's only the max supported resolution by the emulator out-of-the-box. People have successfully pushed the emulator to 1200x900 (or something), though after this limit it starts to malfunction (memory errors).

I think Samsung ships or is planning to ship the 1024x600 AVD for developers looking to target the Tabs larger resolution, but I suspect the Gingerbread SDK will include these higher resolution profiles as default.
 

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