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Commit f538b0ba authored by Kenny Root's avatar Kenny Root
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Fix typos in name of density-independent pixels 

Some places referred to "dip" as "device-independent pixels" but it
should be "density-independent pixels." Some publications are starting
to refer to this incorrectly.

Bug: 2586742
Change-Id: I030ef45a5ff61622c95133dcb7f2c82c7df652f0
parent 70c294b2

docs/html/guide/practices/screens_support.jd

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@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ screen. </p> 
generalized densities: high, medium, and low. Applications can provide custom

resources for each of these three densities &mdash; the platform handles the

scaling of the resources up or down to meet the actual screen density. </p></dd>

<dt><em>Density independent pixel (dip)</em></dt>

<dt><em>Density-independent pixel (dip)</em></dt>

  <dd>A virtual pixel unit that applications can use in defining their UI, to

express layout dimensions or position in a density-independent way. 

  <p>The density-independent pixel is equivalent to one physical pixel on a 160
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ does this in three ways: </p> 
<ul>

<li>Through pre-scaling of drawable resources (scaled at resource loading

time)</li>

<li>Through auto-scaling of device-independent pixel (dip) values used in

<li>Through auto-scaling of density-independent pixel (dip) values used in

layouts</li>

<li>Through auto-scaling of absolute pixel values used in the application (only

needed if the application has set <code>android:anyDensity="false"</code> in its
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ installing the application on small-screen devices. </li> 
are signaling to the platform that your application wants to manage its UI by

itself, for all screen densities, using the actual screen dimensions and pixels.

In this case, the application must ensure that it declares its UI dimensions

using device-independent pixels and scales any actual pixel values or math by

using density-independent pixels and scales any actual pixel values or math by

the scaling factor available from 

{@link android.util.DisplayMetrics#density android.util.DisplayMetrics.density}.</p>