Getting Android screen size type during runtime (drawable-small, drawable-normal, etc)

Issue

As explained in Developer documentation Android supports setting different images for different sizes of the screen by putting them in separate folders (drawable-small, drawable-normal, drawable-large and drawable-xlarge).

Is it possible to get the "type" of the screen that Android is using to load the resources during runtime? I need to log this variable for error reporting and it would help a lot if I can tell which drawable type folder system is using (similarly to how I can tell if it is ldpi, mdpi, hdpi or xhdpi by querying getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density).

Solution

Is it possible to get the "type" of the screen that Android is using to load the resources during runtime?

getResources().getConfiguration() gives you a Configuration object, and from there you can examine the screenLayout field. This tells you size, long/not-long, and direction (LTR or RTL).

Answered By - CommonsWare