Hello. I am a designer and I have a task to draw an interface for Android ( 320х480 and 480х800 ). Acquainted with the off. by document.
There was a question: I painted the images for 480х800 resolution, can I change them by reducing them to 1.5 (for 320х480 ) or do I have to redraw?

  • IMHO, a strange question for the designer, can't you look at the picture in all sizes and decide whether it looks good? - Gorets

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Of course, I am not a dizigner, but I usually draw in the maximum resolution - well, something no less than 1024 * 768, and then calmly scale to lower resolutions.

update and it is even better to have Corel / SVG vector graphics then there are no questions at all.

  • I understand correctly that vector graphics do not need to be customized for different screens? Is it enough just 1 image file and it will adjust itself due to the fact that this is a vector graphic? - Howling

All you correctly answered above. From myself I will add this link for mandatory reading

    Then the question is - if you focus on the fact that for example xhdpi - 720-1280, xxhdpi - 1280-1920, hdpi - 480-800, mdpi - 320-480 ... Then what about the size of the screens themselves? For example, having prepared images for xhdpi - they are displayed "as needed" on a 4.7 inch screen. But xhdpi is not limited to only 4.7 screens, and there are more sizes, respectively, the same pictures on large screens will be displayed small. How to be in this case? In general, I can not catch this "pattern". It seemed to me that there should be any built-in tools like the icon editor, which itself adjusts the dimensions to different types of screens .... but it turns out that you don’t understand.

    • On good it should be made out as a separate question - Cobalt