Background Image Quality

Android Development help please.

Can somone tell me h开发者_高级运维ow I might increase the quality of background images in my app? I have been using Photoshop where the images look great, then I save for the web as a png...then add it to my app... Then on the phone the image looks a little blurred.

Whats the best way to increase my image quality?

I would make sure you're saving it at an adequate resolution. I'm will to bet that "save for web" reduces the resolution to 72 dpi which may not be enough for an android handset. In photoshop, try bumping the resolution of the final png to something like 300 dpi and see if that makes a difference. From there you can experiment with different resolutions to figure out what's the smallest value you can use and still have a crisp image. Alternatively, you could just look for the documented resolution requirements.

The apparent quality of your images may also depend in the type of device you are displaying the images on. For example, if your image is saved as 72px x 72px in your image editor, then displayed with a size defined using 72 scaled pixels (sp) in android on a high pixel-density device, then the OS will stretch the image before display. As such, the pixel density of the display device can affect the apparent image quality.

You can provide different resolution images for different pixel densities by using the hdpi, mdpi and ldpi folders for drawables. See these links for more info:

• Screens support
• Icon design