Android background image resolutions

Question

I'm currently sizing a background for an android application, I want to know, what resolutions should I supply for low, medium and high density screens?

I can't make a decision, as the documentation seems to refer to the density, which depends on the resolution and the physical size of the screen, while I really want an image that is scaled as little as possible to minimize resource the footprint.

Many thanks

Answer 1

It depends on a lot of different things. But for smaller apps I would just skip hdpi, mdpi & ldpi and put all of it in /drawable Put high res images there and phones with lower density will scale them down.

Links of interest: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

Happy coding