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    <blockquote> <p>Would it be so bad to treat all xlarge and large screened devices as tablets?</p> </blockquote> <p>If your question really is "is it OK to use the same layouts, etc. for <code>-large</code> and <code>-xlarge</code> devices", that certainly can work. It's certainly where I would start.</p> <p>Bear in mind that device manufacturers really are the ones who determine what is <code>-large</code> or not. It would not surprise me to find some manufacturers creating 5" devices to categorize them as <code>-normal</code>, because they feel that <code>-normal</code> apps tend to work better on their devices than do <code>-large</code> apps.</p> <blockquote> <p>I've noticed that typically, apps I install on my Hannspad use their normal phone UI, with the exception of Evernote which uses a specific tablet interface - I wish I knew how they'd done that.</p> </blockquote> <p>Probably using <code>-large</code>/<code>-xlarge</code> resources. I don't know if they are using fragments or not.</p> <p>In terms of screen sizes, fragments really are for cases where the <code>-large</code>/<code>-xlarge</code> UIs are basically a bunch of <code>-small</code>/<code>-normal</code> sized UIs snapped together like LEGO(R) blocks. In Evernote's case, their <code>-large</code>/<code>-xlarge</code> UI does not fit that pattern, so they may or may not have used fragments.</p> <p>Fragments offer some other advantages for memory management and configuration changes (e.g., screen rotation), so you might consider using fragments even if you are not sharing fragments between major groups of screen sizes.</p> <blockquote> <p>Is that wise?</p> </blockquote> <p>If possible, I would hold off on making that decision until Ice Cream Sandwich ships and we start seeing how some of this stuff will play out on smaller-screen devices.</p>
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