Which part of Android is in charge of picking a correct resource profile?

Question

I have a weird problem.

Before you come to an idea to lash out on me, I am working on a custom Jelly Bean. Therefore the \"usual nice approaches\" might not work her

Answer 1

I don't know if i get you right, you are building a custom AndroidOS and you want this custom AndroidOS to always load the same layout resource, in your case layout-large-xhdpi?

If so, i think you have customize the Configuration Class. If you want it quick and dirty, you could maybe override the int-Constants on line 72 and below.

Concrete, change:

....
100     public static final int SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE = 0x03;
108     public static final int SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE = 0x04;

to:

....
100     public static final int SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE = 0x04;
108     public static final int SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE = 0x04;

Other way could be to override the Constructor and the setToDefaults()-Method so it always loads the same screenlayout.

I didn't tried it out, I do not know if it is working, and I have no credible and/or official sources (Excluded offical Android Code), but i hope i could help you.