I'm trying to set a generic contact image but cannot guess the right size so the images look pixelated or distorted. What are the right dimensions (and the resolution maybe?) for a contact profile image?
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So, I went and found some pretty 1280x800 images that I wanted to try out as wallpapers for my new transformer. I loaded them onto the device, they show up in the gallery app fine. I am able to select these images and then choose set as wallpaper. However, when I do this, it brings up a cropping tool and wont let me select the whole image, and when I choose to set the cropped image as the wallpaper, the wallpaper only turns out to be a zoomed portion of part of the cropped selection.
Am I being dumb here and missing something? Is there a different resolution image that I need to find for the whole image to show as my wallpaper? This is my first venture into the world of Android, so I may just be missing something obvious.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059924
The wall paper is panned when you go between sections of the desktop, that thread has more details and confusion on the topic.
just like the phones, the screen resolution is not the resolution of the wallpaper.
So for tablets, you need a 4:3 wallpaper same as the phones. 1920x1408 or higher for the best resolution. though 1600x1200 works pretty good as well.
the 1280x800 is what you'll see at any given time.
check out this template to see how it works: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=580148&d=1303942727
About time Google fixed this stupid pix-elated contact picture sync, cant wait for ICS to come out even more after seeing all these bugs being addressed, Google FTW!!
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
Large photos
Android now supports high resolution photos for contacts. Now, when you push a photo into a contact record, the system processes it into both a 96x96 thumbnail (as it has previously) and a 256x256 "display photo" that's stored in a new file-based photo store (the exact dimensions that the system chooses may vary in the future). You can add a large photo to a contact by putting a large photo in the usual PHOTO column of a data row, which the system will then process into the appropriate thumbnail and display photo records.
Yeah its good to fix on this issue but it will be better to keep 512x512 display pic instead of 256x256
gnan10 said:
Yeah its good to fix on this issue but it will be better to keep 512x512 display pic instead of 256x256
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Agreed 512x512 would be better, at least its an improvement.
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Hey,
Just a quick one, what size does a Image have to be so that i can set it as a scrolling wallpaper without cropping, as its annoying to loose lots of the image!
Cheers in advance!
1080x960
greets,
ossy1337
Its still getting me to crop the picture :S
ossy1337 said:
1080x960
greets,
ossy1337
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The included wallpapers are 3040x1710 or 1710x3040, so 16:9 horizontal or vertical.
the ratio of width to height should be 1.125, says 1080 x 960, but even that's the right resolution, cropping still occur. The workaround is adding a black frame around the wallpaper, so the final size should be 1.25 times larger than the original, for the 1080x960 wallpaper, it's 1350x1200. well the color of frame could be any, cuz it will be cropped out in any way. I put an example in the attachment.
I recommend using higher quality images rather than a border. due to cropping you will have to precisely move the field to avoid the border, otherwise it will show up when scrolling/reaching the edge, making the border visible. Really ugly.
The wallpaper should be any size higher than 1080x960. Oversampling due to the higher resolution of the image makes the image look more detailed and crips than if you have resized the image to 1080x960 in Photoshop for example, no matter how good it looks then. Because of the cropping even at 1080x960 the 'true' resolution is a few thousand pixels less from the true ~1MP image, resulting in a very slight upsizing by the OS - and even the smallest upsizing without control over the sampling method, might give vague results.
Senzune said:
I recommend using higher quality images rather than a border. due to cropping you will have to precisely move the field to avoid the border, otherwise it will show up when scrolling/reaching the edge, making the border visible. Really ugly.
The wallpaper should be any size higher than 1080x960. Oversampling due to the higher resolution of the image makes the image look more detailed and crips than if you have resized the image to 1080x960 in Photoshop for example, no matter how good it looks then. Because of the cropping even at 1080x960 the 'true' resolution is a few thousand pixels less from the true ~1MP image, resulting in a very slight upsizing by the OS - and even the smallest upsizing without control over the sampling method, might give vague results.
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If you have tried my sample, you will find that the field just precisely match the border in the default position, so no border edge show up, and no cropping out. I just told my found that the ratio of entire area to the cropping area is 1.25
I just didn't described clearly in the previous post, sorry for my poor English.
Just wondering what size wallpaper I should use if going with a 1 screen homepage.
It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...
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It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...
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Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.
elementaldragon said:
Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.
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Just to confirm this is correct. I cropped the stock Wallpaper to 1080x1920 and did as explained above. The crop tool lets you select the whole image so you get what you want on the homescreen,
I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?
Hand76 said:
I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?
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its absolutely necessary to have 2160x1920 wallpapers when using stock way of applying wallpapers. you can use image 2 wallpaper to make it so you can use 1920x1080 vertical wallpapers though. The way android does wallpapers is ridiculous.
What is the resolution for the N5's viewable screen area? I want to make some custom wallpapers but I'm trying to find the best wallpaper resolution for them... the portrait size.
Thanks!
At the risk of being enabling, 1080x1920.
I'm not sure if the stock launcher lets you set static wallpapers though. If you're trying to fit it in that cross, you're going to have to make it bigger than 1080x1920. Sure you can find a template somewhere. Or use a different launcher.
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What is the resolution for the N5's viewable screen area? I want to make some custom wallpapers but I'm trying to find the best wallpaper resolution for them... the portrait size.
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Still have no N5, but I might tell you about another android device I have.
I made double width size wallpaper and it asked to trim it. So far, so good.
To make jpg I used imagemagic remotelly with something like:
convert -size 2160x1920 xc:"#color" background.jpg
If this method fails, you could always try again.
Best regards.
I just run a bunch of tests on my Nexus 5x (the screen size is the same as Nexus 5) using an image with a grid and I thought I should write down my findings here.
I have icons on two screens, so it is asymmetric: I have my main screen and a screen on the right, there is no screen on the left. The image has to be a little larger so that it scrolls nicely. The thing is that my phone shows _the middle_ of the image on the main screen. So the main screen is 1920×1080, when I scroll right 60 more pixels on the right become visible. Since there is nowhere to scroll left, 60 leftmost pixels of the image are never visible.
To sum up: one needs a 1920×1200 image (1200 = 60 + 1080 + 60). Leftmost 60 pixels are never visible.