[Q] Default Xoom / Honeycomb Background Resolution

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Does anybody know what the default background image resolution will be for the Xoom?

I had gotten the impression from the demo videos that Honeycomb didnt do the whole "pan slightly left and right when moving through the homescreens" thing, but AndroidPolice just posted a few backgrounds that were ripped out of the SDK and their resolution is 1920x1280... which Im having a hard time making sense of. Most notably, the fact that the height is off so much.

I think it's going to be 1280x800, same as the screen resolution.

Maybe the wallpapers in the SDK are covering the xtra large resolution.
And maybe the wallpapers in the final Xoom will be at 1280x800.

let me try...

when you turn the xoom into portrait mode, the height effectively becomes 1280px. So any wallpaper would have to have a height of 1280px to fit the screen.

I read that tegra 2 devices support full hdmi out...meaning if you have an hd tv hooked up to your device running at 1920x1080, the wallpaper would need a width of 1920px to fit the tv....

creating wallpapers at 1920x1280 covers all situations...

sounds good in theory...anyone have a different perspective?

Ahhh, someone else asking a similar question. Although I've posted this elsewhere, and since I'm not the thread starter, I'll post this here...

I’m about to purchase a Xoom, and simply stated, the Xoom has 5 ‘desktops’ that you can ‘pan across.’

I’ve seen a few videos of the Xoom on YouTube, where the ‘wallpaper’ shifts slightly when you pan right or left to another ‘desktop.’

I plan on using this device for a unique purpose, and when I pan right or left, I want the entire background to change.

For the sake of this post, let’s assume I want each desktop wallpaper to be a different color…red, blue, green, yellow, and orange. Further, when I pan, I don’t want to see anything but THAT one color.

So again, the distinction here is…

1) A slight shift in the ‘wallpaper’

Versus

2) a whole new image (color or otherwise) on each of the 5 ‘desktops.’

I'm looking for number 2. Is this possible?

I think the second comment was the good one, it's when the Xoom is put into portrait mode, I should have thought about that.

About the "a whole new image on each of the 5 desktops", I think we'll have to wait for a developer to make a tablet Home replacement with this option.

Originally Posted by 513

I think the second comment was the good one, it's when the Xoom is put into portrait mode, I should have thought about that.

About the "a whole new image on each of the 5 desktops", I think we'll have to wait for a developer to make a tablet Home replacement with this option.

Bummer, that seemed like a simple enough request. lol.

Originally Posted by sadiqa122

let me try...

when you turn the xoom into portrait mode, the height effectively becomes 1280px. So any wallpaper would have to have a height of 1280px to fit the screen.

I read that tegra 2 devices support full hdmi out...meaning if you have an hd tv hooked up to your device running at 1920x1080, the wallpaper would need a width of 1920px to fit the tv....

creating wallpapers at 1920x1280 covers all situations...

sounds good in theory...anyone have a different perspective?

That makes a lot of sense. The idea of handling portrait also completely escaped me. Thanks

The only thing that still sounds fishy would be the re-scaling the UI resolution to fit the TV, rather than simply scaling to fit. I would think that would (seemingly) open the door to all sorts of shifting and alignment issues that they would have had to handle.

Hmm... well, so much for the idea of using the posted default backgrounds to identify "the" size. Downloaded a few and I'm seeing 2 at 1920x1408 and at least one at 1920x1280

Hmmm...Well if 1920 is the default height for portrait mode, and 1280 (or greater) is the width. Maybe the variation in width causes a "broader" slide when swiping left to right (so more of the image is exposed)?? So you could concievably create a wallpaper that's 1920 x 4000?