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December 19th, 2012, 08:54 AM

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Why there is difference?

Why there is difference between the screen layout in eclipse in xml editor and in the emulator?

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You need to code your UI in a screen-independant manner. Devices and thus emulators can have all kinds of different screen sizes and unless you take this into account, things will look different on each of them.

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