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0 pointskllrnohj4y ago0 comments

Android has been shipping arbitrary DPI support for longer than iOS or MacOS has supported the limited 2x HiDPI, and it doesn't have the issues you're talking about.

It's definitely possible to do, although retrofitting an existing UI toolkit & ecosystem is a massive challenge.

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astrange4y ago· 2 in thread

Isn't the Android SDK older than iOS? Either way, it can't escape blurriness. There's bitmaps on this very page and if I zoom in the reply button misrenders.

Actually it can't escape pixel cracks either, as I seem to remember OpenGL ES 1.0 including GL_LINES where the default width is 1px.

kllrnohjOP4y ago

Androids pixels are display pixels, there's no post-render scaling. So no pixel cracks, no blurriness, etc... Density is instead handled mostly at layout, as it should be.

astrange4y ago

You can't just make the windows bigger on a high res display, the text will be unreadably small.

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